Every so often, a creationist will try to argue that of course we can’t see God even though he’s everywhere by asking, “can you see the air?” Then I think of photographs like this one and say, “Yes.”

Sorry mate, but as Richard B. Drumm also pointed out, Spencer Gulf and the Gulf of St Vincent are on the wrong side. Reverse the picture, you’ll see that your “Sunny Sydney” is under all that cloud as usual!

I also think the “coastline” that you’re referring to is the Himalayas – and if you look carefully below them you will see the sub-continent of India.

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited ’til his billy boiled
“Who’ll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me?”

Down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong,
Up got the swaggy and grabbed him with glee,
And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker bag,
“You’ll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me”.

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
“You’ll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me”
And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker bag,
“You’ll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me”.

Down came the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred,
Up came the troopers, one, two, three,
“Who’s that jolly jumbuck you’ve got in your tucker bag?”
“You’ll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me”.

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
“You’ll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me”
“Who’s that jolly jumbuck you’ve got in your tucker bag?”,
“You’ll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me”.

Up got the swaggy and jumped into the billabong,
“You’ll never catch me alive,” said he,
And his ghost may be heard as you passed by that billabong,
“Who’ll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me?”

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who’ll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me
And his ghost may be heard as you passed by that billabong,
“Who’ll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me?”

Australia is *totally* a myth! Like Middle Earth, Narnia, Discworld and San Francisco!

Sheesh!

Australia got bored of just doin’ the same ol’ thing every millenia and so decided to turn around to be Different and Cool in a sort of retro-80s Look-At-Me-I’m-Wearing-A-Baseball-Cap-Backwards sort of way.

I don’t think it worked.

But all joking aside, pretty pictures are very important! They are key to EPO and EPO is important! It’s not just lame PR, it can be the lynchpin in the funding equation. The Hubble repair mission wouldn’t have happened without the folks at the OPO (Office of Public Ourteach) publishing all those pretty pictures and getting the public interested in the mission.
Rich

*ducks*

That’s because the picture has been reversed horizontally. Am I the only Aussie to notice that it’s back to front!

(Cusp in Sydney)

Anyhow, the pic you chose is a good ‘un: I like the way it illustrates the sheer size of the Pacific. It makes Oz look rather lonely.