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I forget whether this has been posted already (from Strange Maps): It was published in the Panama City News Herald (Florida), on September 13, 1939. The caption reads: quote:All this talk about history-making battles waged, armies on the march and territory taken sounds big in the day's war news, but how small it is in American terms may be seen from the map above. Shifted to the American scene, European armies might fight their battles on the Maginot-Siegfried lines in the center of Illinois. This would put London about where Minneapolis is, Paris at Des Moines, Berlin at Toledo, Warsaw at Washington.
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Lord Hydronium posted:I forget whether this has been posted already (from Strange Maps): Berlin in Ohio; an accurate map. Its actually really like things like this even if its a very silly way to show the size of a conflict because I'm more intimately familiar with driving those distances than I am with Europe. Its also silly because Iowa has no Ivory Towers, only Corn Mazes.
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Oct 21, 2013 22:24
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What I really like about that map is that you can fit basically all of those points in Texas. 
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Oct 21, 2013 22:35
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Mu Cow posted:It seems to me that names in media actually follow current naming trends rather than precede. Emma had been steadily gaining in popularity since 1978. It's kind of a feedback thing. I'd agree entirely except we're talking about most popular names, not just the top 10 popular names. The fact that Emma was getting more popular since the 70s basically increased the over-all likelihood that a popular media personality/character would share the name, which could very well be the tipping point between 'top 10 names' and 'most popular name'.
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Oct 21, 2013 22:41
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computer parts posted:What I really like about that map is that you can fit basically all of those points in Texas.
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Oct 22, 2013 12:44
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DarkCrawler posted:America is huge. I've easily visited most provinces and major cities in my country, and yet some random Texan who has never left Texas has more travel miles under their belt. I literally spent 12 hours trying to get to New Mexico out of Texas (to be fair I didn't take the shortest route that went through Dallas but it was pretty much straight). This is kind of a bad map but you can see exactly how big some American states are (Idaho is the size of Great Britain!): 
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Oct 22, 2013 12:59
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DarkCrawler posted:America is huge. I've easily visited most provinces and major cities in my country, and yet some random Texan who has never left Texas has more travel miles under their belt.
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Oct 22, 2013 14:04
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Wow! That's interesting. I'd never thought about it before, but apparently the distance from San Francisco to New York City is about the same distance as going from Lisbon to Jerusalem!
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Oct 22, 2013 14:36
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Barudak posted:Berlin in Ohio; an accurate map. Yeah I like that map a lot. It's weird to see exactly how small the area was and how close those cities are, to my American point of view.
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Oct 22, 2013 16:39
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If you aren't jealous of how incredibly awesome Ibn Battuta's life was I feel bad for you. Dude lived the dream.
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Oct 22, 2013 17:22
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DrSunshine posted:Wow! That's interesting. I'd never thought about it before, but apparently the distance from San Francisco to New York City is about the same distance as going from Lisbon to Jerusalem! I plugged it into Google Maps, and taking a cross-country road trip from NY to SF would take about 42 hrs, spanning 2905 miles. That's nearly identical to taking a road trip from Lisbon to Moscow (43 hrs, 2876 miles).
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Oct 22, 2013 17:42
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Rhesus Pieces posted:I plugged it into Google Maps, and taking a cross-country road trip from NY to SF would take about 42 hrs, spanning 2905 miles. By a further comparison, it's a drive of 3,370 miles at 65 hours from Kashgar, Xinjiang, China to Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. Which is roughly comparable to traveling from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to Miami, Florida, USA, at a distance of 3,433 miles, 50 hours driving. China... is big. 
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Oct 22, 2013 17:59
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DrSunshine posted:China... is big. Even better, the entire country has 1 time zone for the entire country. Communism at work!
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Oct 22, 2013 18:01
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univbee posted:Even better, the entire country has 1 time zone for the entire country. Communism at work! Xinjiang and Tibet in practice use UTC+6 instead of UTC+8, so it's at best a minor nuisance. Silly New York Times created propaganda myths at work?
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DrSunshine posted:By a further comparison, it's a drive of 3,370 miles at 65 hours from Kashgar, Xinjiang, China to Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. Which is roughly comparable to traveling from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to Miami, Florida, USA, at a distance of 3,433 miles, 50 hours driving. It's got nothing on Russia. From Sochi to Vladivostok is a 9977 km or 6199 mile drive taking 121 hours. That's more distance than driving from Montreal to Mexico City, and then from Mexico City back to Montreal, and then from Montreal to New York City (9878 km). Civilized Fishbot fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Oct 22, 2013 |
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Oct 22, 2013 18:11
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And now consider that driving from St Petersburg to Vladivostok would take you 115 hours at 9,546km (=5,931.6 miles). Further east the only city of notable size would be Petropavlosk-Kamchatsky (~200,000 people) which to this day is inaccessible by car, and this route doesn't even begin to touch the vastness that is Northern/Eastern Siberia and restrains itself to pretty much the best roads Russia has to offer. Russia is infathomably big. edit: haha, beaten
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Ras Het posted:Xinjiang and Tibet in practice use UTC+6 instead of UTC+8, so it's at best a minor nuisance. Silly New York Times created propaganda myths at work? You mean the least populated (occupied?) areas of China use a different time zone.
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Boiled Water posted:You mean the least populated (occupied?) areas of China use a different time zone. There's also the fact that the developed parts of China, the only ones that really care that much what time it is, are all along the east coast. As you go inland you encounter mainly farming-oriented communities where work is more determined by where the sun is in the sky rather than the numbers showing on the clock.
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Oct 22, 2013 18:22
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On the subject of massive trans-Eurasian travel, this fella has written a travelogue of a train journey from Lisbon to Vladivostok. It's fascinating stuff! I hope that someday, perhaps when I retire, I can take a magnificent journey like this.
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DrSunshine posted:On the subject of massive trans-Eurasian travel, this fella has written a travelogue of a train journey from Lisbon to Vladivostok. It's fascinating stuff! I hope that someday, perhaps when I retire, I can take a magnificent journey like this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Rally It's not quite Lisbon to Vladivostock, but dude, do it.
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computer parts posted:I literally spent 12 hours trying to get to New Mexico out of Texas (to be fair I didn't take the shortest route that went through Dallas but it was pretty much straight). Aw, Kentucky and Austria look like long-lost siblings! 
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I'm pretty much beaten twice, but yeah, Russia's just loving terrifying. That's 10 243km, or 123 hours. North-easter siberia has gently caress-all for roads, but there's the M56:  which looks like this:  so good luck with your road trip! Ofaloaf posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Rally A friend of a friend is seriously into offroading and cheap cars (as am I on the latter part) so this is something we were thinking about. I'm a bit too chickenshit to jump into it, but slowly coming around. Having to sign up a year in advance is really sucks though, seeing as how you don't need a whole year to prepare your poo poo car.
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Grand Fromage posted:Yeah I like that map a lot. It's weird to see exactly how small the area was and how close those cities are, to my American point of view. I grew up in the Great Lakes area and I printed this out to show my students here in France to give them a sense of the difference in scale. 
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Regarding comparisons for sense of scale. If there was ever a doubt that Russia is god drat enormous: 
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Soviet Commubot posted:I grew up in the Great Lakes area and I printed this out to show my students here in France to give them a sense of the difference in scale. What do you teach SC? I suppose you're teaching in Brittany.
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mobby_6kl posted:A friend of a friend is seriously into offroading and cheap cars (as am I on the latter part) so this is something we were thinking about. I'm a bit too chickenshit to jump into it, but slowly coming around. Having to sign up a year in advance is really sucks though, seeing as how you don't need a whole year to prepare your poo poo car. loving do it. I did it last year, only got as far as Astrakhan, but dude it's a goddamn blast and I never felt like my life was threatened. Didn't even ever pay a bribe during that run, even at the Georgian-Russian border crossing. Plus, the roads won't be quite as bad as your 2006 picture there, although there will certainly be some distinctly hosed-up roads you will have to tackle. You will hate steppes by the end of it all, though. And now I want to do the Rally again. Thanks. Ofaloaf fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Oct 22, 2013 |
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Kurtofan posted:What do you teach SC? I suppose you're teaching in Brittany. I teach English to adults right now, part time while I'm a student finishing up my licence. After I finish my masters and do the concours I'll be teaching in the Diwan immersion schools, although I'm not sure what level yet. 
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Oct 22, 2013 19:27
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I think people in this thread would really dig Long Way Round. It's on Netflix instant in the US currently
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Soviet Commubot posted:I teach English to adults right now, part time while I'm a student finishing up my licence. After I finish my masters and do the concours I'll be teaching in the Diwan immersion schools, although I'm not sure what level yet. drat, only one high school? What's Karaez?
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Ofaloaf posted:loving do it. I did it last year, only got as far as Astrakhan, but dude it's a goddamn blast and I never felt like my life was threatened. Didn't even ever pay a bribe during that run, even at the Georgian-Russian border crossing. Plus, the roads won't be quite as bad as your 2006 picture there, although there will certainly be some distinctly hosed-up roads you will have to tackle. Dude! If you have the time, you should totally start an Ask/Tell thread about this. I know I'd love to hear your account of your experiences on such an adventure!
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Riptor posted:I think people in this thread would really dig Long Way Round. It's on Netflix instant in the US currently Seconding this, it's great. And basically like exactly what people are discussing right now. Three dudes on a motorcycle ride all across Eurasia.
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 US fans of European football teams (as gauged by facebook likes) From Deadspin.
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ulvir posted:Regarding comparisons for sense of scale. If there was ever a doubt that Russia is god drat enormous: By some quick googling, Russia is about 10,000km across, and Australia is about 4,000km across. What's going on with this map?
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ProfessorProf posted:By some quick googling, Russia is about 10,000km across, and Australia is about 4,000km across. What's going on with this map? Projection fuckery maybe?
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ProfessorProf posted:By some quick googling, Russia is about 10,000km across, and Australia is about 4,000km across. What's going on with this map?
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The problem of map projection
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Kurtofan posted:drat, only one high school? What's Karaez? Karaez is Carhaix in French, famous for Les Vielles Charrues and not much else. I'd like to work in the high school and chances are they'll have an English teaching job open there when I graduate but we'll see. Given the rapid level of growth they are in the early planning stages of a second high school, either in Brest or in Vannes. The biggest thing holding back growth is a lack of teachers so I guess if any goons want a pretty much guaranteed job you should learn Breton and teach. There's only one high school in the immersion schools but there are four or five bilingual public high schools. I think the bilingual schools are good for people who speak Breton at home but most people don't so a kid in the bilingual school (by law 50% French, 50% Breton) will have the vast majority of their life occur in French rather than actually being at parity.  DrSunshine posted:Dude! If you have the time, you should totally start an Ask/Tell thread about this. I know I'd love to hear your account of your experiences on such an adventure! Seconding, this would be cool as hell.
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Rincewind posted:
That's wrong, because I am definitely the only person in Wisconsin who watches godless communist soccer and I support Swansea City.
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