have you ever read "On the Beach" by Nevil Shute?

Hi - If you decide to move to OZ, please drag this fella with ya.

ho ho ho, yes ignore the wildlife, and the slim chance it may bite or sting you, go instead with the more obvious and applicable impending nuclear war. muppet.

Or better get relocated before 2012...

So who will protect Oz from the subsequent Chinese invasion?

right, our beloved planet earth is off limits - we're doomed! we're all doomed!!!

the moon is still available. any takers?

Watched QI last night. Apparently nobody has been directly killed by a spider in oz since 1981. However, plenty of people crash their cars when one drops out of the sun visor onto their laps and they go into a blind panic. I suspect that this would be you rae, so you are probably best giving the place a miss

No, you don't like people talking about the dark side of Australia, so you lurk around other countries' forums, waiting, just waiting for the chance to protect Straya with mass generalisations and defensive rants.

BTW, I did live there for nearly 5 years. And is not true that ozzies love hot weather cos of the beach or pool. *snorts with derision*. They have to like work and stuff, most of them. Trust me I know, getting to work in 36+ degrees in your worker bee suit was not fun.

And while there is snow to be found there, for the vast majority of people living in cities it is not something that they are ever likely to deal with.

Tasmanias probably the best place to be if theres a nuclear war, its way down the bottom of the world near Antartica, It has the cleanest least polluted air anywhere in the world becasue the wind blows in from Antartica, l doubt any of the radiation would make it down there.

I doubt radiation would make it outside of an area of 50 miles from the detonation zone. Despite what Hollywood would have you believe, nuclear weapons are nowhere near as powerful as people imagine.

When I did my NBC training in the Army, the fallout area was stated to be 15 miles.

The doom and gloom merchants never seem to realise that Hiroshima and Nagasaki had nuclear detonations and that those living relatively close to those sites did not all "burn away"

No, they lived happy and cancer free lives for the rest of their days.

The nukes dropped on japan were puny compared to what exist now, smaller by whole multiplier prefix (15MT vs 15KT or something)

See pictures here for nuke fallout pictures.
http://villageofjoy.com/chernobyl-to...d-in-pictures/

Estimates put chernobyl at 400 hiroshimas, so about one 6MT nuke (assuming it's linear which it probably isn't)

I don't doubt that, but the simple fact remains that they are nowhere near as powerful as people think. I'll never forget when I was told when attending the NBC training referred to above that, as it then stood (early 1990s) that to destroy England alone would require something in the order of 170 nukes.

Mind you, being hit by nuclear fallout is probably preferable to having to live in Australia anyway

Maybe we should start a new thread "Is it better to be hit with nuclear fallout or ...."

We'd only end up talking about mutated sharks and spiders

this is the last time i am going to respond to you as you are clearly deranged.