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This is a sad story but there's some lessons in it.

A surprise happy ending, it's extremely rare to find someone still alive here if they've been lost for over a week.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...arkable-survival-in-hostile-outback/105523920

 

[Shevek]

The usual news content - everything except what I want to know: How?
One time, some people got stuck in the SW USA, trying to cross a sandy desert in a VW van. Fortunately, they were found in time in rescued. Then it happened again. The third time they were not so lucky, and still had not thought to bring extra water.

 

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One time, some people got stuck in the SW USA, trying to cross a sandy desert in a VW van.

About 15 years ago an American couple tried to drive a Kombivan across Lake Eyre and got bogged. Lake Eyre is normally a dry salt pan and it's also a restricted area, no entry without a special permit.

The woman stayed with the van, the man went walking hoping to find help. The man died, the woman was almost dead too when she was found, and the only reason she was found quickly enough is because she stayed with the vehicle, it took weeks to find the man's body.

The woman was deported as soon as she was out of hospital, and she was informed that the only reason she wasn't being charged with manslaughter is because it would be impossible to prove which one of them had decided to drive in to a restricted area.

 

[Jumpinbare]

I sent this to a cousin of mine who called it a "self-eating watermelon" I had never heard that expression but I like it.

 

[Tired]

It is good to remember that kind and fun people exist as well; videos like this one return my faith in humans:

 

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Photos: Australia hosts largest-ever military war games

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

Wow! Nice car!

Starting at about 2:54 - so totally me if I was sitting in that dude's car

Just kidding. Maybe.

 

[VictorR]

 

[NDR2]

 

[Jumpinbare]

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I can read AND identify as a train. Don't repress me.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

MOTHS FOLLOW THE MILKY WAY: Astronomers come in all shapes and sizes--even invertebrates. A new study published in Nature reveals that Australian moths can see and decipher the night sky. They pay particular attention to the Milky Way and seem capable of navigating using the Carina nebula as a visual landmark.

Above: A male Bogong moth and a diagram of their annual migration.​

Every spring in southeast Australia, billions of Bogong moths take flight under cover of darkness. It's the beginning of an epic migration as much as 1,000 kilometers long. Their destination: a small cluster of caves in the Australian Alps--places the moths have never visited before, yet somehow navigate to with remarkable precision. Their compass, it turns out, is the night sky itself.

Moths Navigating by Stars

 

[VictorR]

 

[RemyZee]

There are no fish under the ice.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

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That is not only weird, it’s spooky.

 

[Rocco]

 

[Shillelagh]

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

I’ve come to the realization that if you mixed Deliah by Tom Jones and Dark Lady by Cher, the end result sounds pretty good together.

 

[VictorR]

 

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MOTHS FOLLOW THE MILKY WAY:

We've got another moth here rarely seen. The wiki page only lists them as being on the east coast but I grew up seeing them in the Mallee country in South Australia. Their grubs are tree borers. I grew up knowing them as "Lunar Moths" because when they exit tree trunks they all do it on the same night, on a full moon, and they fly straight up towards the moon.

The ones people find at ground level have completed their mating flight and have returned to earth to lay eggs and die.

Endoxyla cinereus - Wikipedia

 

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Will a sign like this deter instagrammers or attract them?

After 21 deaths at this tourism beauty spot, the community has had enough