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SaltyJesus posted:It's very much population_density.webm Actually I think it's interesting they have more recorded sightings in Africa than in China.
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steinrokkan posted:Actually I think it's interesting they have more recorded sightings in Africa than in China. Hmmm, that's true. I wonder if it's just a problem with data collection methodology.
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Yeah these don't anywhere near follow population density. Also, Osaka seems to be Japan's UFO capital.
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Lektor posted:what is going on with the constant sighting near the west coast of the hudson bay? I think that's the center of Canada, so maybe that's where entries marked only "Canada" show up. The closest settlement is Arviat but that's clearly not where the dot is.
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YF-23 posted:Yeah these don't anywhere near follow population density. Also, Osaka seems to be Japan's UFO capital. Probably American servicemen and women.
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SurgicalOntologist posted:I think that's the center of Canada, so maybe that's where entries marked only "Canada" show up. The closest settlement is Arviat but that's clearly not where the dot is. My guess is the dot is supposed to be closer to Churchill.
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E: Nvm. Didn't know what page I was on.
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Pretty hard when the black market will pay handsomely for them I imagine
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So did Serbia get to keep the Yugoslav rocks, or is that politically loaded?
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HookShot posted:So did Serbia get to keep the Yugoslav rocks, or is that politically loaded? It seems like Russia has the USSR's, Czech Republic has one and Slovakia does not, and South Africa has one and not Namibia.
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No big shock how well that maps to poor places that you'd probably be able to lift something like that relatively easily in. Cool map though, I had always assumed the US gave moon rocks out to world museums so everyone would have the chance to see one but I had no idea if it actually happened. And now judging by that map I'm guessing some rich gently caress in Shanghai has faucets in his tower palace made out of moon rocks. 
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Guaranteed the one(s) given to the Republic of China is/are currently sitting in one of some high-ranking Kuomintang politician's many apartments. e: SaltyJesus posted:UFO Sightings since 1933. It covers the whole world, you just gotta zoom out. sub supau fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Apr 13, 2015 |
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Pakled posted:
lol at louisiana "losing" both of them. i'm surprised rhode island isn't in the same boat.
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steinrokkan posted:Actually I think it's interesting they have more recorded sightings in Africa than in China. Is this a cultural thing? The USA and Western Europe led to UFO-sighting bandwagon and I don't know to what degree the ITS ALIENS crowd has spread to Asia. I'm sure it has by now, but it may have gotten to some other places faster.
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The looting of Africa continues unabated.
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icantfindaname posted:Pretty hard when the black market will pay handsomely for them I imagine It's the sort of thing that's hard to sell though, one guy actually stole moon rocks from NASA and only got caught because a potential buyer called the FBI.
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HookShot posted:So did Serbia get to keep the Yugoslav rocks, or is that politically loaded? Serbia is the successor state of Yugoslavia so that's probably what happened. A lot of the existing administrative stuff from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia got passed down to Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, then to Serbia and Montenegro, and finally to Serbia. TetsuoTW posted:More like "white_people_density.webm" Yeah, I was mostly looking at Europe / US when I wrote "population_density.webm", my bad. SaltyJesus fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Apr 13, 2015 |
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SaltyJesus posted:Serbia is the successor state of Yugoslavia so that's probably what happened. A lot of the existing administrative stuff from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia got passed down to Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, then to Serbia and Montenegro, and finally to Serbia. It is estimated that by 2100 the ultimate successor state of Yugoslavia will be entirely localized to a toolshed in the outskirts of Belgrade.
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twoday posted:It is estimated that by 2100 the ultimate successor state of Yugoslavia will be entirely localized to a toolshed in the outskirts of Belgrade. You almost nailed a classic joke in Serbia that one day "all Serbs will fit under one pear/plum tree". I'm in favor of further Balkanization, gently caress Belgrade and its treatment of "the provinces". It's my firm belief that Slovenia and Croatia didn't really want to break away from Serbia, they were trying to get away from Belgrade. Serbia should declare independence from Belgrade.
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SaltyJesus posted:Yeah, I was mostly looking at Europe / US when I wrote "population_density.webm", my bad.
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I scavenged this from some gibbis thread du jour
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SaltyJesus posted:I scavenged this from some gibbis thread du jour
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SaltyJesus posted:You almost nailed a classic joke in Serbia that one day "all Serbs will fit under one pear/plum tree". It reminds me of this old picture:  And apparently a newer picture too! 
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Your picture in turn reminds me of:
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SaltyJesus posted:I scavenged this from some gibbis thread du jour Naruto? Really?
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SaltyJesus posted:I scavenged this from some gibbis thread du jour 
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Maps of blonde hair are basically Viking-holiday-getaways.jpg Vorpal Cat fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Apr 13, 2015 |
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HookShot posted:My guess is the dot is supposed to be closer to Churchill. No way. Google did come up with one UFO sighting at Churchill (and one at Arviat, for that matter), and there does seem to be a dot closer to Churchill at one point in the timeline. But the one in the geographical center of Canada, west of Arviat, is constant, which seems to mean multiple sightings per year. If people in Churchill were reporting that many UFO sightings it would be known for something other than polar bears. I don't recall hearing of any UFO sightings when I was there (end of a canoe trip), or from any of my friends/family members who have done the same trip. Vorpal Cat posted:Maps of blonde hair are basically Viking-holiday-getaways.jpg ...and some Mongols. Were some steppe people independently blonde or did they get it from Scandinavians like the rest of us? SurgicalOntologist fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Apr 13, 2015 |
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Vorpal Cat posted:Maps of blonde hair are basically Viking-holiday-getaways.jpg SurgicalOntologist posted:...and some Mongols. Were some steppe people independently blonde or did they get it from Scandinavians like the rest of us?
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SurgicalOntologist posted:...and some Mongols. Were some steppe people independently blonde or did they get it from Scandinavians like the rest of us? There's blonde & blue-eyed people in like Afghanistan and poo poo, and it stretches way back. The Scythians were red and blonde haired according to ancient writers, as were the later Cumans, among others.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I don't think you should ever look at a map of Russia and think it tells you anything about anyone other than Russians, and possibly the people they deported. Nah there's some genetic anomalies in the various peoples living in the Russian federation. I think some of the indigenous (ie not ethnically Russians) around to or directly to the east of the European Russian eastern edge are naturally blond.
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The Yuezhi were blond and red haired. And the ol Genghis himself was supposedly red haired and green eyed. There's a bit of that DNA floating around central Asia.
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YF-23 posted:Nah there's some genetic anomalies in the various peoples living in the Russian federation. I think some of the indigenous (ie not ethnically Russians) around to or directly to the east of the European Russian eastern edge are naturally blond.
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Way I heard it was that red hair and green eyes came from the steppe peoples and the Scandies got it from close cultural connections with steppe peoples (in preprepreNorse days).
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Schizotek posted:Way I heard it was that red hair and green eyes came from the steppe peoples and the Scandies got it from close cultural connections with steppe peoples (in preprepreNorse days). Proto-Germanic peoples probably originated in that region before migrating west into Europe, so that could be true.
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Red hair is more of a British/Irish thing, or so I've been led to believe.
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Cake Smashing Boob posted:Red hair is more of a British/Irish thing, or so I've been led to believe. You'd think but theres a huge ginger outpost in the middle of Russia: 
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