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Ghost of Mussolini posted:Putting aside the actual question of whether the claim is valid or not, I'm curious what you mean by this. What I find funny about the Argentine claims is, besides the Malvinas, they still call the others South Georgia, South Orkneys, South Shetland. Way to admit to UK presence, guys. ecureuilmatrix fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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Badger of Basra posted:Why did they nuke Antarctica and Saudi Arabia? To combat global warming with some nuclear winter.
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So the Arabian Peninsula is a nuclear wasteland, but the UAE, Qatar and a bit of Oman managed to survive?
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I just noticed Taiwan is also irradiated, but somehow the rest of Asia is fine.
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Badger of Basra posted:I just noticed Taiwan is also irradiated, but somehow the rest of Asia is fine. It's not. It's a different shade of green.
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Badger of Basra posted:I just noticed Taiwan is also irradiated, but somehow the rest of Asia is fine. No it's not, it's under the "Republic of China" color. EDIT: efb
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Does Tom Clancy especially hate Arabs, but only the Peninsular and Shia varieties?
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Funny how both Cuba and Venezuela end up as the only US protectorates.
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icantfindaname posted:Does Tom Clancy especially hate Arabs, but only the Peninsular and Shia varieties? I don't think Tom Clancy knows that there is a difference between Muslims and Arabs. e X fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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e X posted:I don't think Tom Clancy knows that there is a difference between Muslims and Arabs. Probably not, he's dead.
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To be fair, I read the description, and Saudi Arabia is targeted by ecoterrorists for its oil production alone.
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The one upshot of living in a lovely farm town is there's nothing near me that's a target for nuking(Maybe Fermilab? Even then I'm still far enough away to only get the edge, maybe). I just have to deal with fallout. 
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PYF overlapping claims map
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icantfindaname posted:Does Tom Clancy especially hate Arabs, but only the Peninsular and Shia varieties? You mean his ghost writers? End War was well after Tom Clancy actually wrote the plots of the video games that took his name. End War is hilarious because it follows the state someone would think the world would be in by 2020 if trends continued unchanged a decade ago. Russia is a superpower, bolstered by being the #1 energy providing country in the world, and the European Union is now a federation where all of Europe is pretty much one big country. China is also not a major power and Ireland is apparently all about joining the new British Empire.
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Trench_Rat posted:PYF overlapping claims map Why does nobody claim that bit in the Amundsen sea? Beyond not having any bullshit Islands nearby I guess, most of those claims are crap either way.
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I'm guessing that's the part of Antarctica that's South of absolutely nothing but some island micronations in the Pacific that wouldn't be able to claim a reasonable chunk or even afford to do anything with it.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:I'm guessing that's the part of Antarctica that's South of absolutely nothing but some island micronations in the Pacific that wouldn't be able to claim a reasonable chunk or even afford to do anything with it. So... it's American then right.
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There's a treaty that basically says that Antarctica is no-one's (or common property of all of humanity or something), but any claims that were made before the treaty have been frozen. According to the treaty, it's not possible to utilize those claims (you can't chase away foreign research bases from an area you claimed), to change them, or to claim unclaimed parts. Existing claims stay were they are: as useless lines on a map. The punishment for breaking this treaty might be an angry stare from the UN. Nobody is going to bother breaking that treaty until they find a financially viable way to extract fossil fuels from Antarctica.
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Where is the Norwegian claim coming from?
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Torrannor posted:Where is the Norwegian claim coming from? Probably related to the fact that the Norwegian explorer Amundsen was the first person to reach the actual South Pole.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Probably related to the fact that the Norwegian explorer Amundsen was the first person to reach the actual South Pole. It actually dates to the 1930s, and had more to do with commercial interests (whaling) than exploration.
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Ghost of Mussolini posted:Putting aside the actual question of whether the claim is valid or not, I'm curious what you mean by this. Argentina's claim to the Falklands is based on the previous ownership of the islands by the Spanish and that the Spanish claim was never relinquished before Argentina's independence. As Britain has never relinquished its claim on the Antarctic Territory, it precludes Argentina's claim on the Antarctic. Argentina's claim to the Antarctic Territory is based on the lack of a permanent population there. As the Falklands were emptied prior to the British settlement, it preclude's Argentina's claim on the Falklands. The Argentinian claims to the South Sandwich Islands is also hilarious as there's less justification than their claim on the Antarctic.
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Markovnikov posted:Why does nobody claim that bit in the Amundsen sea? Beyond not having any bullshit Islands nearby I guess, most of those claims are crap either way. I could have sworn that used to be claimed by someone, but they changed their claim before the claims were frozen by treaty. I remember seeing it claimed by someone in a 1950s-era reference book my parents had. TinTower posted:Argentina's claim to the Falklands is based on the previous ownership of the islands by the Spanish and that the Spanish claim was never relinquished before Argentina's independence. As Britain has never relinquished its claim on the Antarctic Territory, it precludes Argentina's claim on the Antarctic. Not to mention, that if we go by "finders keepers" as Argentina wants, then the islands should go to the French. 
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Nintendo Kid posted:I could have sworn that used to be claimed by someone, but they changed their claim before the claims were frozen by treaty.
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Markovnikov posted:Why does nobody claim that bit in the Amundsen sea? Beyond not having any bullshit Islands nearby I guess, most of those claims are crap either way. It's remote and barren, even by Antarctic standards. No one claims it because no one cares enough to want to claim it. Golbez fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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Who knows what latitude Antarctica will be at in a hundred million years? It's smart to stake out your claim as soon as possible.
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Phlegmish posted:Who knows what latitude Antarctica will be at in a hundred million years? It's smart to stake out your claim as soon as possible.
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 Alternatively, http://www.scotese.com/futanima.htm has a little JAVA animation of the next 250 million years of continental drift. Europe and Africa collide, the Mediterranean dries up. Alaska collides with Russia for a while, then North America breaks away from Asia and starts heading back towards Europe. Then, suddenly, most of Antarctica violently breaks off and swiftly moves towards the Maldives, which made me laugh out loud for some reason. Nameless_Steve fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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Phlegmish posted:Who knows what latitude Antarctica will be at in a hundred million years? It's smart to stake out your claim as soon as possible.  
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Here's something neat, a Japanese board game called "Home Education: Around the World Board Game" made in 1926.
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Fojar38 posted:Northern Maine looks like it would be fine since the map is assuming no strikes in Canada although that seems unlikely since NORAD plus most of Canada's population is situated in the area directly west of it. Canada's main tank base is just on the other side of the border of Northern Maine. It would be hosed.
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Huh, I didn't know that 8 year olds had the whole supernatural thing going on too with their dolls. Also, I'm guessing Children's Tablets are some specialty thing?
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Do kids in New Mexico buy MLP toys for the ranch, or something?
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So, Colorado's full of nerds? And in Vermont are all the lumberjack dads hand carving toys for their lumberkids? That's kind of nice actually.
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computer parts posted:Huh, I didn't know that 8 year olds had the whole supernatural thing going on too with their dolls. Yeah they're usually cheap, slow, and heavily padded: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/ipad-tablets-ereaders/kids-tablets/pcmcat313100050038.c?id=pcmcat313100050038
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Alabama does love football, so the map checks out!
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