[NoPicklez]

Come to Australia during the summer and watch how quickly you burn outside without sunscreen.

[tremon]

Yes, 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.

[pseudohadamard]

For 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]

Smells like pork everywhere

[teiferer]

That'a not just the angle though, it's an issue with the ozone layer too, right?

[SJC_Hacker]

Only for fair skinned individuals

[folkrav]

Dark 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]

which 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