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Day five of racing in the 2013 World Solar Challenge will bring different challenges to participants. At the head of the field, leading teams will make it to the finish line today in the city of Adelaide, a cosmopolitan metropolis where they can expect to find any comfort they desire. At the rear of the field teams camped out …

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  1. Martin Budden Silver badge

    Bullet holes.

    The reason the stick-men on the sign are falling down mine shafts is because they've been shot.

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    1. stizzleswick
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      Re: Bullet holes.

      Er... it's Australia, not the U.S.

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  2. Simon Smith 1

    ...Adelaide, a cosmopolitan metropolis ...

    Bwahahahaha.

    No, please stop it, my spleen will be rent asunder

    Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

    Ouchies

    Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    google at -28...

    There's nothing there, but what is that track off to the west?

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    1. Jonathan Richards 1
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      Re: google at -28...

      I'm guessing that's the old road, and that the Stuart Highway was constructed on a new line not far from it.

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      1. Jonathan Richards 1
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        Re: google at -28...

        D'oh, there goes the career as a photographic intelligence analyst. Switch to Map view, and you'll see that it's marked as railway line. Or railroad, depending on your preference.

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  4. Frogmelon

    What they need are solar panels that will also convert the kinetic energy from raindrops into energy to charge the battery. Waste not, want not.

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    1. Frogmelon
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      Or possibly also take advantage of the rainwater to generate a current from a galvanic reaction :)

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