Fun times in Alice Springs I once spent an enjoyable three hours in Alice Springs. Yes, minutes of fun. Population of 28,178 in the most recent census. I didn't count them myself: I am such a damn fine citizen of the Commonwealth of Australia that I mindlessly trust my government to get such details right. However—and here, kittens, comes the killer fact—if you drew a circle around Alice Springs with a radius of 1,500 kilometres (that is, a diameter of 3,000 km) you would not find another 28,178 people in the area. This is the only area of land on planet Earth where you could do that.  ¶ 3:50 pm