in to the current situation. christ, the way things are going under mugabe, looks like its time for a humanitarian airlift...

my late brother in law once talked about just simply moving to australia, and i thought he had gone daft, 'til he told me he had helped set up florsheim's australia manufacturing operations... they must be closed by now... my guess is that agricultural exports and construction supply exports are probably doing okay...

even given all this, the science writers over there are going to have an easy day with this one. i don't know where the a dollar and salaries are at, but the staff for the neo observations was 2, so with a population of 20,000,000, that means that the cost per person for this program was about .003a$ per head per year.

of course, the reason australia was so easy to colonize was that a large part of the aboriginal propulation was washed away by impact tsunami about 1500 ce...

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