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Platystemon posted:You gotta have a noble grow them and post armed guards to protect this strange new crop. Then have the guards take the night off so that the peasants can steal some potatoes for their own fields, which was the plan all along. I love your hachis, monsieur Parmentier.
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ASAPRockySituation posted:Lol at the idea of Ethiopia only existing as of the 80s Ethiopia was founded in the 1880’s, modern Ethiopian government is descended from the EPRDF junta and hasn’t been able to ratify a new constitution yet.
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What’s the name of the “meme” thing about how a lot of north/south divides in America correlate to an ancient coastline?
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Mr. Nemo posted:What’s the name of the “meme” thing about how a lot of north/south divides in America correlate to an ancient coastline? I don't know about any meme but this is an article discussing the matter: https://www.deepseanews.com/2012/06/how-presidential-elections-are-impacted-by-a-100-million-year-old-coastline/
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Mr. Nemo posted:What’s the name of the “meme” thing about how a lot of north/south divides in America correlate to an ancient coastline? Precambrian coastline I think. The short version is that the old coastline (including shallow waters a bit out plus some shifting I think) basically correlates to the Confederate States of America, or more precisely, the parts of those where slavery was popular. The reason is that the coastline basically created very fertile soil, which made cotton production viable, which has modern implications in American demographics.
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https://twitter.com/rammy_c8/status/1586884479901208577
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There is something very soothing about detailed high res maps.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Belgium is just South Netherlands split away because of religious differences but they pulled the name of an ancient Celtic group that lived in the same general area out of their rear end to sound slightly more legitimate. I'm sure you were trying to be cute, but the pull comes from inside your rear end then, because the 'Leo Belgicus' (giving maps of the Low Countries the shape of a lion) was a thing from at least the 16th century SlothfulCobra posted:French fries probably predate Belgium and the modern concept of a nation-state. so basically Germany can't claim any sort of invention as national history unless it was invented there after 1871 or what
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Pope Hilarius II posted:so basically Germany can't claim any sort of invention as national history unless it was invented there after 1871 or what "of the German Nation" was appended to "Holy Roman Empire" in 1512
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All the best German inventions and discoveries were after 1871 anyway. Bacteriology, cloning, Haber process, Ostwald process, PAL TV, spring mattress, heroin, MDMA, dialectical materialism, space rockets, and Sexualwissenschaft. Pre 1871 is mostly just like "I stuck some letters on a wine press and now the Pope is mad", increasingly larger tubas, and the Easter Bunny.
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You are now on the hitlist of the Leibniz-Stiftung. Prepare to have your limbs differentiated into infinitesimal parts.
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I don't think Germans can exactly lay claim to space rockets specifically.
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London is 2/3 space.
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Count Roland posted:I don't think Germans can exactly lay claim to space rockets specifically. Why not? A Nazi V-2 was the first rocket to cross the Karman line. It was suborbital but it counts. All the initial US and Soviet space launches used V-2s or exact copies.
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Count Roland posted:I don't think Germans can exactly lay claim to space rockets specifically. Maybe not the first version, but certainly the second.
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Actually, the rockets were invented by good old Americans
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Now good ol' Werner Von Braun is as American as apple pie.
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Imagining Werner Von Braun as the German guy in Malcolm in the Middle now.
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Guavanaut posted:London is 2/3 space. Now do publicly accessible green space. A huge amount of the green space in London must consist of the backyards of terraced houses
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 it ain't easy being green (because of all the knife crime)
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Ras Het posted:Now do publicly accessible green space. London's problem isn't lack of public green space, it's that every decade or so for centuries someone would say "wow, this is becoming a monster, the mother of all metropoles, the city of cities, it needs another park or it'll devour us all."  Space for anything else is the problem.
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Guavanaut posted:Pre 1871 is mostly just like "I stuck some letters on a wine press and now the Pope is mad", increasingly larger tubas, and the Easter Bunny. and communism
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Guavanaut posted:At least half of that. Yeah no I wasn't arguing against London being quite green, just that it's interesting how much green space exists that is hidden from basically the entire city population. Then I started thinking about how 1950s Nordic housing block construction was extremely inefficient in terms of floor space, but rather generous in green space that is open to all and not closed off beyond buildings 
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^^^ Seems similar to how the commies used to lay out the big building blocks too Guavanaut posted:At least half of that. Interestingly the top one is Oslo with almost 70% "green space"... because it includes all that stuff in the north  But Hong Kong is 40% 
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mobby_6kl posted:^^^ The main difference is actually that the
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BonHair posted:Actually, the rockets were invented by good old Americans Weird way to spell Soviets  (yeah I know Tsiolkovsky's work wasn't published anywhere and Goddard didn't read it) also I choose to believe that the story about the Ottoman scientist who launched himself in a rocket in the 1600s is true and we should award him the title
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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ChubbyChecker posted:and communism Hey now mate where do you think Marx is buried??? It's not Berlin.
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Britain is under ongoing Dutch occupation since the Glorious Revolution and is thus basically German so he might as well be.
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mobby_6kl posted:^^^ Yeah, any comparison of cities that just uses administrative borders is useless.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Britain is under ongoing Dutch occupation since the Glorious Revolution and is thus basically German so he might as well be. Britannia's been under German occupation since 410.
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Grand Fromage posted:Why not? A Nazi V-2 was the first rocket to cross the Karman line. It was suborbital but it counts. All the initial US and Soviet space launches used V-2s or exact copies. I always forget about the Karman line, which to me is an arbitrary and meaningless point. Orbit or nothing baby. But yeah, Germans got the Karman line. And for the orbital stuff yeah Germans did pretty well all the heavy lifting but it was US/Soviet industrial capacity that allowed for the final line to be crossed. Were the Germans themselves ever close to an orbital rocket?
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Portugal looking very não é um pais pequeno.
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Im the imperial colors in the republican order germany + Alsace-Lorraine
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Macht Deutschland wieder groß. 
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I don't think Spain's flag has SPAIN written in the middle of it.
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Yeah I think they got confused with the England flag.
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ENGLAN Staring at the plat maps of my city and obsessing over the ephemerality of existence *is* therapy
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PittTheElder posted:also I choose to believe that the story about the Ottoman scientist who launched himself in a rocket in the 1600s is true and we should award him the title
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:Im the imperial colors in the republican order germany + Alsace-Lorraine How much extra for an East Prussia earring?
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