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Come to Australia during the summer and watch how quickly you burn outside without sunscreen.
by NoPicklez 4mo ago
Come to Australia during the summer and watch how quickly you burn outside without sunscreen.
- tremon 3mo agoYes, it's crazy to consider how far north Earth's entire land mass is skewed. Australia is basically the southernmost landmass (apart from Tierra del fuego), yet it is located squarely under the Tropic of Capricorn; at the same distance north of the equator (Tropic of Cancer), you've merely reached Mexico, the Sahara desert, and the Himalayas.
- pocksuppet 3mo agoMost of Europe is at the latitudes of Canada. The whole UK is squarely north of Vancouver. https://vividmaps.com/comparing-latitude-of-europe-and-america/ https://vividmaps.com/comparing-latitude-of-europe-and-ameri...
- pseudohadamard 3mo agoFor non-Australians, that's burn as in "burst into flames", not "your skin goes red". Go to somewhere like Cairns and you can hear people crackling as they walk down the street.
- NoPicklez 3mo agoSmells like pork everywhere
- SJC_Hacker 3mo agoOnly for fair skinned individuals
- folkrav 3mo agoDark skin typically provides a protection equivalent to a ~10 SPF. Meaning some protection, but tons of the actual damaging UVB still going through.
- red-iron-pine 3mo agowhich is like 2/3 of the Oz -- rampant skin cancer happens when you export the palest people on earth, anglo-irish-scots, to an unrelenting desert
- teiferer 3mo agoThat'a not just the angle though, it's an issue with the ozone layer too, right?