Correction: "50 Words Americans Pronounce Weird". Very annoying once to see a U.S. based English teacher on RU-vid tell a German girl she was pronouncing "Buoy" wrong because the German girl was using standard British (and Aussie) pronunciation of the word.
She is right about it not being always hot, Fun fact: there is a small city called Albany. (I'm from there) It's Noongar name is called Kinjarling, meaning the place of rain though that doesn't mean it can't reach temperatures of 46 celsius (114.8 fahrenheit if that's wrong blame google).
I still remember it like it was yesterday, we were in Dunlop that was on high alert for evacuation because the hut fire was predicted to come through the farmland and the gully behind us. It would have ripped through north Canberra as well. A last minute wind change cause the three fire fronts to merge. They took out the Cotter which contained the dam for drinking water in Canberra. Everyone was existing off bottled water (or what containers they'd filled beforehand in preparation) till the dam could be repaired. A little 15 year old me being the only one agile enough to get onto the roof, I spent the better part of two weeks on that roof plugging gutters, housing down roofs and filling the gutters after clearing them out. I watched as our elderly neighbours bid what they thought were their final farewells to each other. I watched as the smoke filled the air, as the horizon turned red and then we had to leave to pick up my sister from Batesman Bay being 150kms away. We took all the photo albums and the animals with us just incase we had nothing to return to. There were still burning ashes landing in Batemans Bay causing spot fires. The things that will forever stick in my mind are watching the entire sky turn red then black and red with the constant cloud of smoke and ash. Then my dad taking us for a drive afterwards when it was deemed safe... pulling over a hill from Belconnen to look over what used to be pine trees as far as the eye could see... which had been turned into flattened blackness stretching on out to the horizon. A scene you'd expect in a post apocalyptic movie. Alot of that area is now filled with housing developments and it chills me to the bone to remember what happened. As you said - it's a god damn miracle that only 4 people died. The firies worked tirelessly without rest to do all they damn well could to get everyone and anyone out safely. There is video footage somewhere of a man running with a frypan over his head that is pulled into the fire truck to get him out. I can tell you the trauma response hit bad with the 2019-2020 bushfires where it felt like the entire country was burning (60,000 hectares of the ACT). Canberra was the evacuation point for everyone surrounding Canberra, we could only watch as the fires almost completely encircled Canberra - if we needed to evacuate... there was nowhere to go but through already burning or burned areas. We didn't even really notice Covid had started because of the fires destroying the country. But our legendary firies did it again and eventually got it under control. I still don't understand how they do it...
Animals grow larger over generations because larger animals require less food per kilo of body mass than small animals, to maintain their metabolism, and they are also less likely to suffer predation from their natural enemies. For the megafauna, humans were a very unnatural enemy....
So according to invading colonial law, right up until the late 1960s some of my Great Grandparents (& hence Grandparents) because they were Aboriginal weren't even considered to be human beings... they were considered to be part of the "flora & fauna"...
actually takes 4 years to go from Ls to full license. L's is 120 hours of supervised driving, but you can only go for your red P's after a year. Both provisional licenses are unsupervised but have speed limits and harsher punishments. Red P's is one year and green P's is two and then you pay to get your full unrestricted license.
another video called Prehistoric Australia Was Pure Nightmare Fuel by the channel ExtinctZoo focuses more on the predators on ancient Australia is pretty good as well
You wouldn’t have wanted to live back then , remember how many creatures that live in Australia now that want to kill you , imagine what it was like back then .
Old video. Mid to late 90s at least. Prime mover (tractor unit) was probably carrying around 2000L of diesel to keep the truck going, a rough guess for fuel burn would be 1 litre/km loaded around 2000km in fuel range. it may be slightly better in the flatter country. Even then pretty much all aussie trucks are speed governed to 100km/h. Its either an electronic governing system in the engines computer, or mechanically governed in the gearing of the truck (less common). Dont quote me, but i think those bigger combinations are speed limited to 90km/h. In terms of braking, they take a while to stop. If you had to stop in a hurry, it could take 500metres on flat ground from full speed. Every wheel (2 tyres to one wheel -dual) has its own brake like any other truck, they are surprisingly efficient at braking when compared to a car kg/kg of overall weight. What he was referring to with the tri drive (three axles driving/deleivering power to the road)- they do not like to turn. If under any amout of power whilst making a slow, sharp turn, the 3 drive axles well and truely overcome the steering force generated by the single steer axle, if you put your foot into it and try to turn, the traction and tourque delivered to the drive axles will push the steer tyres in a straight line. Less of a problem with a bogie drive (2 driving axles) due to less traction and length in drive train. On that, the drag created by all those tri groups on the trailers ( tri axles that obviously do not drive) mean that the slightest turn on mildly soft ground, (due to the sideways drag when a tri group starts to go sideways during a turn) would almost stop the truck dead (loss of driving traction). In order to turn around they need lots of room, and hard ground to maintain good traction under the 3 driving axles. Experience wise, technically you can get into an MC (multi combination) license by about the age of about 20 years old working your way through the license ladder. Which means your legal to drive that. Dangerous goods certification would require slightly more training. Saying that, wouldnt want to stick a freshy in those big combinations, experience does not come with a license. The more tyres you have on the ground, the more likely you are of a flat.
From what I've learnt the animals mostly prehistoric were larger mostly because oxygen levels were higher which added bone mass and sufficient food sources and maybe larger to regulate body temperature better and protection against attacks basically more oxygen equals bigger
I am still trying to fathom how cape york at the top of Australia was actuall part of California . Geological studies have proven it but it doesnt make sense
Oh dear, please do NOT say c** in Australia unless you are in some lowlife company!! You absolutely MUST have car insurance !! Portion sizes are way smaller than US. Our power points carry 240 volts … be careful !
Roo's are only dangerous when they plant their feet and start leaning on their tails. The Claws on their hind legs are big, sharp and will rip you open quick smart if your not careful. The bird singing with the old bloke was a Kookaburra also 👍
The original video seems to have relied upon some very old sources. It's been years since scientists discovered that the komodo dragon is in fact venomous, overturning the old theory that bacteria in the saliva did the killing.
