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Let's talk about   Space Countries capable of manned space flight  Blue: Currently have human spaceflight programs. Light blue: Confirmed and dated plans for human spaceflight programs. Green: Plans for human spaceflight on the simplest form (suborbital spaceflight, etc.). Orange: Plans for human spaceflight on the extreme form (space stations, etc.). Black: Once had official plans for human spaceflight programs, but have since been abandoned. Countries with extraterrestrial probes  Brown: Operates Lunar, planetary, and non-planetary probes. Dark Green: Operates Lunar and planetary probes. Light Green: Operates Lunar probes. Yellow: Canada is planing on cooperating a non-planetary probe with NASA and ESA. Countries capable of space launches  Light blue: Countries with launch capability Dark Blue: ESA (without France) Countries that operate satellites  Dark Red: Nations which have had successful, independently launched their satellites on their own indigenously developed launch vehicles. Red: Nations which have had unsuccessful, independently launched their satellites on their own indigenously developed launch vehicles. These nations also have external launches of their satellites. Orange: Nations which have external help in launching their satellites. Black: Nations which have claimed to have successful, independently launched their satellites on their own indigenously developed launch vehicles, but has not been confirmed. Countries with astronauts  Legend
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Interesting, though it doesn't say much about phenotypical diversity. For example, the distribution in the populations of France, the Netherlands, Belgium and England is unsurprisingly similar, but generally speaking, Dutch and English people look recognisably different from French and Belgian people.
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Apr 10, 2014 08:49
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the jizz taxi posted:Interesting, though it doesn't say much about phenotypical diversity. For example, the distribution in the populations of France, the Netherlands, Belgium and England is unsurprisingly similar, but generally speaking, Dutch and English people look recognisably different from French and Belgian people. I'm not a geneticist, but I think that superficial features are only a very small part of genes. I've read that humans' genetical diversity is smaller than chimpanzees' that live in a single forest.
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Apr 10, 2014 09:01
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I am not a scientist, but this map shows the distribution of certain haplogroups on the Y chromosome. The only thing it shows is which European male populations are descended from the same human male. Each of these coloured groups is descended from a single dude from a long time ago. The map doesn't tell us anything about phenotypes or the female ancestors of the populations. The one thing it probably shows is, which armies raped and pillaged where in Europe.
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Apr 10, 2014 09:14
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Trench_Rat posted:
Everything not covered in the West is literally just mountains and desert (and I mean "in the middle of nowhere" mountains and desert, not anywhere near human habitation).
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Apr 10, 2014 12:34
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DrSunshine posted:Let's talk about North Korea is the best Korea.
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Apr 10, 2014 13:54
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DrSunshine posted:Countries capable of manned space flight The US doesn't do manned spaceflight any more. If we want to get a person into space then we has to pay Russia to fly them up.
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Apr 10, 2014 14:31
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Great spaceflight maps. How is "Launch Capability" defined? I see Brazil and South Korea on the list, but then later it seems they can only launch satellites with outside help. Yet Mexico can also launch satellites with outside help, but doesn't posses this Launch Capability. withak posted:The US doesn't do manned spaceflight any more. If we want to get a person into space then we has to pay Russia to fly them up. Good point.
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Apr 10, 2014 15:16
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Count Roland posted:Great spaceflight maps. Brazil has a launch site (Alcântara). Mexico doesn't*. * Technically, there has been a rocket launch from Mexican soil, but the one-time launch from Santiago Ixcuintla was a sounding rocket launched by an American consortium, whereas Alcântara is operated by Brazilians and, at least in principle, is reusable for launching orbiting satellites, though the VLS has yet to be successfully launched to orbit. ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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Apr 10, 2014 15:44
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Whats up with that R1b haplogroup in Cameroon?
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Apr 10, 2014 16:13
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Those are great! Looks like Azeris have this: you can see their population in Azerbaijan and north western Iran. But look how else they're distributed. Neatly along Greece's borders, but not much in the Balkans. Around Gibralter. Very densely around Rome, and a bunch in Corsica. And way up in Estonia too!? Very interesting. fake edit: actually the density is very low for all these measures, it only goes up to 7% at its max, too bad.
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Apr 10, 2014 16:20
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Medieval Medic posted:Whats up with that R1b haplogroup in Cameroon? Scottish immigrants.
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Apr 10, 2014 16:23
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Medieval Medic posted:Whats up with that R1b haplogroup in Cameroon? Apparently there was some sort of "back migration" from Asia to Africa according to this study via Wikipedia. 
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Apr 10, 2014 16:25
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Count Roland posted:Those are great!  According to Wikipedia it likely spread back from Asia through the Levant, then out to Europe, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa. You can sort of see the migration patterns on the map.
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Apr 10, 2014 16:47
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The two sizes don't agree with each other too well, unfortunately. The enclaves in India are neat as well. How does this data get collected, especially outside of Europe? Did they take DNA samples from... the whole world?
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Apr 10, 2014 17:13
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Places equidistant from a part of Texas and another part of Texas.
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Apr 11, 2014 00:46
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computer parts posted:Places equidistant from a part of Texas and another part of Texas. So if I understand you correctly, I'm looking at a Texas-sized radius around the border of Texas?
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Backweb posted:So if I understand you correctly, I'm looking at a Texas-sized radius around the border of Texas? More or less, yeah.
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Apr 11, 2014 01:24
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Think of it as places from which you can be driving to somewhere in Texas and be only halfway there when you hit the Texas border.
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Apr 11, 2014 03:02
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computer parts posted:Places equidistant from a part of Texas and another part of Texas. Yeah I get some fun looks from folks when I tell them "if I drive from Houston to LA, by the time I'm halfway there I haven't left Texas yet". El Paso is as close to the west coast as the coast that its own state borders.
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Apr 11, 2014 15:35
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The scale of the west states really does not show up on maps. I once drove from southwest Ohio to Oklahoma City in one day, then from Oklahoma City to the west edge of New Mexico was another entire goddamn day. I didn't even make it to Arizona.
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Apr 11, 2014 15:50
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Backweb posted:So if I understand you correctly, I'm looking at a Texas-sized radius around the border of Texas? Thanks, I was a little confused from the description, since I'm sure there's no place on earth you could not find two points in texas that it was equidistant from.
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Well I think outside that area there will always be one single point that is the closest part of Texas. (So there might be a qualifier missing in the original definition) E: Oh I get it. It was meant to be: All points A such that there is a point B in Texas that is equidistant to A and another point C also in Texas. So A <-> B == B <--> C but not A <--> B == A <--> C as the original post could be interpreted. SurgicalOntologist fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Apr 11, 2014 |
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Apr 11, 2014 17:02
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SurgicalOntologist posted:Well I think outside that area there will always be one single point that is the closest part of Texas. (So there might be a qualifier missing in the original definition) Ah, that makes sense, thanks!
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Apr 11, 2014 17:08
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It was a lot clearer when a version of that map showed in the pyf maps thread.IMJack posted:
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Apr 11, 2014 17:14
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From a rather old OKCupid blog post (more in the post)   Forgive the lovely rush crops, the actual images/text/legends are all separate things so I couldn't just jack the images from the post itself.
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gently caress yes let those dirty Ostrobothnians and Laplanders murder each other.
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Wow. I wonder if the scale is normalized, as in the limits are the most extreme states rather than absolute percentages for each answer. It could make a big difference. SurgicalOntologist fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Apr 11, 2014 |
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Apr 11, 2014 18:07
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Probably the best way to fix most of the problems with your country. Wish it was as easy for the rest of us...
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Corsica is Murder Island. It's funny since my Corsican grandparents are always telling me to be super careful when going out in Paris
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SurgicalOntologist posted:Wow. I wonder if the scale is normalized, as in the limits are the most extreme states rather than absolute percentages for each answer. It could make a big difference. Based on the comments in the post, the limits are the most extreme states (and D.C.) rather than absolutes.  This map, and the one on the value of human life is pretty loving horrifying. But this comment on the gun control map made me chuckle: quote:I put this up because the question was interesting and also implies a paradox. If the people who most love guns were offered this choice, the rest of us could pass real gun control. Voila.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Most of these I get why, but what the gently caress is up with that one area in the Netherlands (or is it Belgium)?
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No Safe Word posted:From a rather old OKCupid blog post (more in the post) This one seems like a reading comprehension thing. Homosexuality is in fact a sin; god threw a comet at a city that had gays in it. A better question is: should we care what the bible says?
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Mikl posted:Most of these I get why, but what the gently caress is up with that one area in the Netherlands (or is it Belgium)? It is the Belgian province of Liege. Large unemployment due to closures of manufacturing industries (esp. steel industry) may have something to do with it. Still, it's not the only place that suffered from this. In the same country, Hainaut has probably suffered at least as much, and it's slightly less blue. Antwan3K fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Apr 11, 2014 |
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Apr 11, 2014 18:27
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Oh Brandenburg  Is Algarve especially poverty stricken or what is happening in south Portugal ?
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Antwan3K posted:It is the Belgian province of Liege. Large unemployment due to closures of manufacturing industries (esp. steel industry) may have something to do with it. This, plus Liège is home to one of the world's best known weapons manufacturers, some of that stuff finds its way easily on the black market, despite gun control laws in Belgium being rather strict.
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the jizz taxi posted:This, plus Liège is home to one of the world's best known weapons manufacturers, some of that stuff finds its way easily on the black market, despite gun control laws in Belgium being rather strict. Wait do you mean Fn?
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