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    Image of w1llk w1llk
    09/24/09

    In reply to Australia's Red Dust Storm Looks Like The Apocalypse, Even When Seen From Space
    Who runs Barter Town?
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    Image of BlueBeard BlueBeard
    09/24/09

    @w1llk: MASTER BLASTER!
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    Image of stereobot stereobot
    09/24/09

    In reply to Australia's Red Dust Storm Looks Like The Apocalypse, Even When Seen From Space
    I guess we don't need to send people to Mars now that the Mars has been brought to us.
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    Image of yrag yrag
    09/23/09

    In reply to Australia's Red Dust Storm Looks Like The Apocalypse, Even When Seen From Space
    Man, droughts, fires & sand storms of biblical proportions!

    What's going on? Australia's been on the bad end of the climate stick of late.

    Good luck down there!
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    Image of astrogirl astrogirl
    09/23/09

    @yrag: They are probably all connected to our general lack of rainfall of late. No rain means empty damns and no water supply for farms (and even cities) so we are drought declared. And without the rain we also have a dry crispy bushland which equals high fire danger. And the inland areas are just so dry from the drought that there is no moisture in the dirt so it gets pick up by anything stronger than a stiff breeze.

    I wouldn't be surprised if we had another one at some point.
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    Image of eviladrian eviladrian
    09/23/09

    In reply to Australia's Red Dust Storm Looks Like The Apocalypse, Even When Seen From Space
    The view from my flat yesterday morning:
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    09/23/09


    @eviladrian:
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    Image of stereobot stereobot
    09/24/09

    @eviladrian: Dude... you are all gonna die..
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Australia's Red Dust Storm Looks Like The Apocalypse, Even When Seen From Space
    Oof. Reminds me of when San Diego was practically on fire when I was in college, 2003-ish. The skies were orange, the skies were ashy, the air was almost unbreatheable.
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    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    09/23/09

    In reply to Australia's Red Dust Storm Looks Like The Apocalypse, Even When Seen From Space
    That actually looks like that scene from the end of Mad Max 3, when they're flying under that very bridge...
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    09/23/09

    In reply to Australia's Red Dust Storm Looks Like The Apocalypse, Even When Seen From Space
    It's not from this recent storm, but it's still pretty cool.
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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    09/23/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent:
    My iPod just played "Riders on the Storm".
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    09/23/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Shamelessly lifted from someone's comment on Jalopnik, taken yesterday.
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    Image of UlisesHz UlisesHz
    09/23/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Id be shitting bricks
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    09/24/09

    @UlisesHz: I was just thinking that - I am amazed the kids in that video seemed to hold it together. If I was their age (maybe 7 years old?) when the sky went from yellow to red to black within a minute I would have absolutely shat myself and probably shat everyone else too.
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    09/24/09

    @stereobot: The kids of Australia are a hardy bunch. Descended from convicts and all.
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    06/17/09

    In reply to A Rash of Bizarre UFO Abductions in Australia
    to much ergot in the bread kind of story
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/17/09

    @gorehound: It's Australia. Too much ergot in the beer.
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    Image of FNP90 FNP90
    06/17/09

    In reply to A Rash of Bizarre UFO Abductions in Australia
    It looked like a kitchen utinsel or dentist's tool...
    hmmm... I see someone else is fond of using their new perio-dental-turkey basting-anal probe. I ordered mine off the TV from Billy Mayes! Just make sure too wash it after each use, or things can get a little funny tasting.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/17/09

    @FNP90: I always knew that guy was an alien!
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    Image of Baldwookie Baldwookie
    06/17/09

    In reply to A Rash of Bizarre UFO Abductions in Australia
    What if you just put up screens over the windows. Can aliens figure them out? I gots to get me a woman so I don't get abducted.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/17/09

    @Baldwookie: Yes, aliens can fly from another star, create a cloaking field, levitate people, and butt-rape guys with ease, but screens and bars defeat them more easily than said things defeat burglars.


    The crowbar is a technology they don't have, even though they have baker/dentistry tools.

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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    06/17/09

    In reply to A Rash of Bizarre UFO Abductions in Australia
    Side effects of AMBIEN may include drowsiness, dizziness and headache. You may feel aliens abducted you and took you to some kind of medical facility over the Blue Mountains in Australia. Ambien is taken for 7 to 10 days or longer as advised by your provider. Some patients may believe their bed is "some kind of operating table in a chamber within a UFO." Ambien and Ambien CR have some risk of dependency. They are non-narcotic.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    06/17/09

    In reply to A Rash of Bizarre UFO Abductions in Australia
    UFOs have replaced elves and fairies in human consciousness. They are tricksters from the depths of the psyche.
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    Image of EstimatedProphet EstimatedProphet
    06/17/09

    @Bill-Lee: Wow. I always wondered why I'd always see aliens on DMT while so many other people claimed to see elves. It all makes sense now.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/17/09

    @EstimatedProphet: Yep, if you'd given it to someone in the Middle Ages, they'd have seen either angels and demons or elves and fairies. You, being an SF-kinda person, see aliens. It's whatever otherworldly beings your subconscious has the most of.
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    Image of debo matar la zombi goldberry83 debo matar la zombi goldberry83
    06/17/09

    In reply to A Rash of Bizarre UFO Abductions in Australia
    I absolutely love the whole "I was drowsy but definitely not asleep" thing. Because no one ever, ever feels like they're awake during a dream: it just can't happen. Clearly, then, the best explanation is that you were abducted by butt-plundering aliens, and not that you've had a very vivid dream of the sort that everybody has from time to time.
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    Image of Plague Plague
    06/17/09

    In reply to A Rash of Bizarre UFO Abductions in Australia
    What's Australian for "idiots"?
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    06/17/09

    @Plague: Americans.


    J/K! J/K!

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    Image of Plague Plague
    06/17/09

    @omgwtflolbbqbye: After viewing some clips of the Lakers parade,I'm not gonna argue.
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    Image of Jes St.Lawrence Jes St.Lawrence
    06/17/09

    In reply to A Rash of Bizarre UFO Abductions in Australia
    "What looked somewhat like a dental or baking instrument was then inserted into my backside and pulled out and put away."


    Young Aussie male rectum harvested in the cool of the night? Only the finest for our clients.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    06/17/09

    @Jes St.Lawrence: that was what I kept getting stuck on too - what the hell looks like a baking instrument and a dental instrument at the same time? Is this some kind of whisk, or maybe one of those frosting cones?
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