It would become the most deadly ocean in the world ... with deadly spiders, snakes that learn to swim and kangaroos learning to wade in the shallows

It's been seriously considered....

This is insane!

Drop bears would evolve into Float bears!

It kinda makes sense though, there really is a below-sea-level spot:

But think of the views!

It would drown five people of European descent, but also make about 80 languages extinct.

Is this Nova Australis archipelago coral or volcanic?

Australia used to have an inland sea existing 120 to 90 million years ago called the Eromanga Sea

*looks up Eromanga*

Oh no

But think of the real estate boom!/s

I saw a video a decade ago where they had low quality facts like “Did you know that if you dropped Australia on the state of Utah, at least five people would die?” I desperately wanted to show it to someone the other day because it was so relevant to our discussion, but I simply could not find it. Internet searches are worthless now. I’m sure this joke has been made 100 times in slightly different way, but I couldn’t find anything even close after 30 minutes of searching.

It never even occurred to me that I would need to save videos I didn’t want lost to time.

They already have venomous sea snakes because of course they do!

Kangaroo's are actually pretty decent swimmers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0rnM84s4ns

It fits pretty well in the continental United States, too!

LOL. Meme about rest of the world, USA shows up to make it theres. 😅

Australia is the rest of the world?

Please don't forget Mediterranean sea, its standing right there with Australia.

I didn't realize Brazil would also fit it, wow. I thought I'd have to rotate it

Source: thetruesize.com

Yes, but it's what the country is being compared to. Australia made the entire world about them with the original image by that logic.

If they do this it will just spawn new poisonous animals and insects to kill us off.

Aww it looks like a seahorse

This is my favorite grand theft auto worldmap from the entire series

Best case: drop bear population declines.

Worst case: drop bears become amphibians.

Then we were doomed before they even started to move the Mediterranean

I should buy a boat. 🐱 📰

Is that the …loving term for those big spiders? Huntsmans iirc?

Unfortunately most of that area is desert. Drop bear populations would remain largely unaffected. Kangaroos with long flippers might be a possibility.

Not sure what's worse, unlike land animals they wouldn't be stuck there either. Yikes

Internet searches are worthless now.

Ikr, my skill level keeps on increasing but it's not getting me anywhere anymore :(.

All i see is a funky pinguin

No, that's the term for a specific breed of carnivorous koalas that drops on their victim from trees.

That’s because of the damned Mercadian map projection, it makes Europe seem much larger than it is.

Fun? fact: Africa is A LOT bigger than you think.

Source is Tumblr.
(I want to share this and I always cite my sources.)

Of course! It was ours until Trump kidnapped it and put it in Europe to strengthen his claim on Greenland. Don't try to make sense of it.

US do this

Dolphins won’t let Roos in on there territory, unless they give good handies maybe.

Much like now ?

This made me curious how big the sea is. 3.75 million cubic kilometers. Goddamn. Even if australia had a completely flat landscape, the amount of time it would take to excavate that large of an area is mind boggling.

Yea. But iirc their coastline is smaller than Norway's

There is occasionally a plan put forward to flood the inland, much of which is near sea level. You would just need to pump seawater a few km from the Gulf of St Vincent into the low lying and largely useless land north of Port Augusta.

The evaporation of the inland water would increase the rainfall on the eastern seaboard.

Every country has their own favorite coastline statistic.

Denmark has the largest coastline to area ratio with 172 m of coast per km^2

Unofficially there are probably even smaller island nations with higher ratios though.

Best case: phenomenal fishing

Worst case: taipans breed with cane toads as a punishment for mankind's hubris

One way to get more Blue states?

Gotta put on your protective gear

iirc the idea is to build a cannal but no cannal ever built could ever replace the water fast enough or provide the circulation neccesary to stop the whole thing ending up as another dead sea.

I was on tumblr so much when I was growing up and it's so hard to find old references now. My skill level hasn't increased by much, I just wanted the internet to be the playground it once was.

I wish I had a twin sister who would know my references effortlessly.

In the worst case where do kangaroos come in?

Isn't that just Lake Eyre? Rain does that every so often just for the lols.

No way!
Scotland fits into the Mediterranean 5 times, with leftovers!
Maybe we should move down there. It'd be way warmer!