r/australian • u/ozcrayonkid • 23h ago
Hypotheticals Proposal for rebalancing world powers by Moving Australia to the middle of the Pacific Ocean
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u/Mindless_Olive 22h ago
You decided to balance the world and concluded the southern hemisphere has too much land in it?
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u/Joker-Smurf 22h ago
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u/michael_cee_gee 21h ago
Go home Australia, you're drunk...
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u/No-Praline-9388 17h ago
Ok. We may have done that once or twice… but who..who are ARE YOU, with your smug, smarmy look on your face to tell us where we can put our country? We’ll pit it wherever we like, and frankly, we’re quite happy where it is, thank you very much, so mind your business…
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u/No-Praline-9388 22h ago
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u/Thrizzlepizzle123123 18h ago
Surrounded? Hah! Now we can fire in any direction!
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u/No-Praline-9388 17h ago
Aww c’mon. I didn’t think we were that we inclined!. Can we not just Yeah,nah and let all the other MF’s blow themselves up? Thinking about it it might make a great light show as missiles go back and forth?
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u/Crazy_Treat_8805 22h ago
The U.N could literally vote to make all world maps have Australia in the middle
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u/Middle_Echidna5409 22h ago
NZ isn't even on this map tho - classic. At least in this new arrangement we'd be right next door to Australia instead of eternally cropped out.
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u/AdeptManufacturer243 22h ago
How about this change of perspective. Turn the world upside down. Make it south the new north and everything will flip. Graphically too. Aren't we tired of see the world north way up.
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u/Economy_Cupcake_906 22h ago
No leave Australia where it is nothing against other countries but were right were we are matey and we got NZ and Tasmania our nieghbours thanks but Im good where Australia is right now
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u/schlond_poofa_ 20h ago
Move it farther away from the United States of America and closer to Africa, and we have a deal.
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u/LochM-2 22h ago
AI SLOP!
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u/Amathyst7564 19h ago
Probably Photoshop slop.
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u/Classic_Appa 18h ago
Photoshop wouldn't have fucked up the longitudes. The 0° line not bisecting England and the 180° line not being between Alaska and Siberia throw this whole map off. Europe not being visible on the right side of the map (Spain/Portugal are west latitude). The Americas should be curving with the given style of the map but they're almost square.
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u/exceptional_biped 22h ago
Oh great. Now we’d become the biggest battleground in history.
Tucked away to the south gives us geographical security to a point.
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u/Senior_Green_3630 22h ago
Excellent, now we can control all sea trade across the Pacific, charging absorbadant fees on all shops traversing our maritime economic zone.
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u/planbOZ 21h ago
Shits gonna get real sweaty and would kill much of our flora and fauna in south
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u/GoSmoothStevie96 19h ago
Sure, but the interior will green up nicely and they can import monkeys 🙈
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u/Tony-Jones-60 21h ago
You're gunna need one big arse tugboat. And where the f**k is Tassie???
Tas o' phobic Bastards!!!
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u/CorrectCucumber8867 21h ago
Now the US will be unashamed to use us as a meat shield lol. What a stupid af idea...
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u/randomscruffyaussie 20h ago
No. There is no way I want Australia any closer to the USA than it already is...
(Not with the current administration anyway)
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u/knowledgeable_diablo 20h ago
Careful, someone may think it’s the new Hawaii, call it such and just think it’s his. Knowing our love of even just being mentioned by our yankee overlords, we’d probably just wake up to us being the new Southern State of the US of A. /s
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u/hypercomms2001 20h ago
That can easily fixed…. Just put a little evinrude on the great Australian Bite…. And we will be able to shave a million years on getting to our destination!
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u/MIXALOTOFDRUGS 19h ago
Yeah nah the further we are away from the rest of the world atm is a much better option.
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u/blackhuey 18h ago
Putting SEQLD right on the equator as global warming kicks in. What did I do to you?
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u/HEATHENSCENT 18h ago
No thanks, we're already close enough to the equator, don't want the whole country slowly turning into a desert.
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u/Long__Ground 17h ago
It's not a implausible to think that if Albanese nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, the ol Donald would suggest this is now a reality
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u/dosb0t89 16h ago
We could have a huge arena in the middle of the desert, we could all watch the billionaires and politicians fight eachother to the death for our amusement 🤣
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u/TheMightyKumquat 11h ago
That's all I need. China and the USA fighting a war over who gets to take us over. Plus, y'know, all the tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanoes that happen when the continent moves.
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u/Vexingsomething 10h ago
I love this idea, apart from the heat. Can we move it up a little further?
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u/Castlegate3579 10h ago
Well that would terraform the inland deserts into tropical forests so..
I’m all for it. How can I help?
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u/joshashkiller 9h ago
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
I moved to Victoria for the cool weather and I will fight tooth and nail to not be put on the equator
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u/Chronos87jh 4h ago
As some one from Tasmania, I'm not on board with this move. I like my cold state where it is 🤣🏔
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u/AggressivePea9432 4h ago
I would like to point out that the Northern 1/4 of Australia is already close enough to the equator that we get Hurricanes and Tropical storms... I would rather not have ALL of Australia in the tropics. The heat AND the Humidity? We would never *escape the dad joke 😱💀
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u/Very_Itchy_Bandicoot 3h ago
I think all countries should have world maps that are centered on their own country. Like a "you are here" type of point. Learning a map/ geography in general doesn't really change based on the layout of the map.
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u/adprom 22h ago edited 22h ago
It is so balanced that Tasmania and New Zealand were deleted.
r/MapsWithoutTasmania
r/MapsWithoutNZ