Australia isoted to an Australian world

[NomadicSky]

Australia (the country and everything under control of their government, with their nautical zone aside from embassies) is isoted to an empty world with a twist.

The world outside of the isoted zone is uninhabited by human life and placential mammals. The world is an odd place indeed.

One week before any humans left Africa the asbs made a copy of Earth without any life on it all life on the world is native to Australia. The asbs scatterd Australian life across the globe in the most similar climatic zone possible allowing for life to adapt in other areas.

This other Earth was placed on the exact other side of the galaxy and has never seen human life until now.

The area that was Australia on our world is now a wilderness from that world.

The solar system is only the four rocky worlds and a moon clone nothing exist in the system past a clone of Mars until you get far enough away to get to the nearest star 10 light years away. (they made it that way so nothing could disturb this world).

What happens on both worlds?

[Syphon]

Will the various nationalities that make up Australia try to make a better life for themselves in their old Homelands?

An interesting concept.
I'll have to give it more thought

[Seldrin]

On the Australian world mass panic ensues as Kevin Rudd has no idea on how to deal with his people. After a year or so, it's already been established that Australia is the only civillized place on Earth. Australia also gets its best season in terms of rainfall (without all the pollution and human caused climate change), ending the drought and lowering the temperature in many places.
I could see mass migrations to other parts of the world to retrieve thylacines, giant kangaroos, marsupial lions, diprotodons and megalania (although I imagine that these animals will have evolved somewhat over the years, if not gone extinct entirely from being ISOTed to a place they can't handle), this of course would be followed by migration from immigrants to try and win back their homelands from the savage beasts that took them.
Native Australian crops would be grown more freely across the continent without the supply from the rest of the world.
Really far out, a species of Australian animal evolved into a sentient species and challenges the arriving humans.

As for Earth Earth I don't really know what would happen there.

[DMA]

Vegemite becomes an international best seller

[NomadicSky]

Really far out, a species of Australian animal evolved into a sentient species and challenges the arriving humans.

As for Earth Earth I don't really know what would happen there.

No it's just an animal world. I did forget to mention before someone comes alond and says something about the ocean. Land is what I was talking about the oceans will have the life in them as ole Terra did at the same ecological time.

[Whatif?]

I can't see Australia taking the whole world without at least 10 or 15 years of severe problems. One other thing none of you thought of: Wouldn't mixing air and water cause extreme weather at least for a little?

[Caledor]

i am probably the only one that had this vision of an Australian trench about to be overrun...

by rabbits... millions and millions of rabbits rushing the Aussie lines

[Whatif?]

i am probably the only one that had this vision of an Australian trench about to be overrun...

by rabbits... millions and millions of rabbits rushing the Aussie lines
Yes you were. Thanks for sharing.

[Caledor]

They are a serious problem!!!

one eighth of all mammalian species in Australia have become extinct. Rabbits are suspected of being the most significant known factor in species loss in Australia. The loss of plant species is unknown at this time.

within ten years of the introduction in 1859, the original 24 rabbits had multiplied so much that two million could be shot or trapped annually without having any noticeable effect on the population

and now they have an entire world and no enemy's...

[Whatif?]

They are a serious problem!!!




and now they have an entire world and no enemy's...
Never said they weren't but it just is so random.

[Caledor]

55155
COOOOOKIE!!!

[Whatif?]

Nice post. Did you make that yourself?

[Caledor]

not really. picture from sluggy.com, post generator (http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=61378), and I'm third way paraphrasing some recruitment slogan.

[NomadicSky]

Australia actually has this worlds only rabbits, foxes, all manner of once invasive species only exist in Australia unless they release them someplace else.

I doubt they'll be releasing anything into the wild, although they might want to do something about species that are in zoos like the Panda, lions and tigers, elephants, these their worlds only.