A Buttery Pastry posted:

It's just people rubbing their butts against each other.

DarkCrawler posted:

I had no idea there were so many Smith Smith Jones's in the UK!

Guavanaut posted:

Smith-Smith-Jones is the most common British surname, but for the UK as a whole it's Smith-Wilson-Jones-Smith.

The Sin of Onan posted:

I had no idea Cyprus was part of Turkey.

Powered Descent posted:

Arglebargle III posted:

First do a map of a rainforest Sahara. It would be a million times cheaper.

Arglebargle III posted:

Sounds like a cool and excellent salt bowl disaster.

icantfindaname posted:

Turkey seems to think it is. The position of Turkey during the invasion was that Cyprus was a geographical extension of Anatolia, and thus game for being ethnically cleansed for Glorious Turk

Guavanaut posted:

I thought Russia was trying to move away from that, and Belarus kept them as a matter of pride, or is that the other way around? I definitely remember seeing a separate patronym box on a form for something from Belarus.

Arglebargle III posted:

First do a map of a rainforest Sahara. It would be a million times cheaper.

Elukka posted:

MIght kill rainforest Amazon while you're at it.

steinrokkan posted:

No problem, that's currently work in progress.

Powered Descent posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project

"The proposals call for a large canal or tunnel being excavated of about 55 to 80 kilometres (34 to 50 mi) depending on the route chosen to the Mediterranean Sea to bring seawater into the area. Or otherwise a 320 kilometre (200 mile) pipeline north-east to the freshwater Nile River at Rosetta. For comparison, the nearby Suez Canal is currently 193 kilometres in length. By balancing the inflow and evaporation the lake level can be held constant. Several proposed lake levels are -70, -60, -50 and -20 m. Flooding the depression to -20 m would lower the height of the world ocean by 2.16 milimeters."

icantfindaname posted:

Turkey seems to think it is. The position of Turkey during the invasion was that Cyprus was a geographical extension of Anatolia, and thus game for being ethnically cleansed for Glorious Turk

quote:

The 1960 constitution fell apart and communal violence erupted on December 21, 1963, when two Turkish Cypriots were killed at an incident involving the Greek Cypriot police.[62] Turkey, the UK and Greece, the guarantors of the Zürich and London Agreements which had led to Cyprus's independence, wanted to send a NATO force to the island under the command of General Peter Young.[citation needed]
. . .
700 Turkish hostages, including women and children, were taken from the northern suburbs of Nicosia. The violence resulted in the death of 364 Turkish and 174 Greek Cypriots,[64] destruction of 109 Turkish Cypriot or mixed villages and displacement of 25,000–30,000 Turkish Cypriots.[65] The British Daily Telegraph later called it the "anti Turkish pogrom".[66]
. . .
The crisis resulted in the end of the Turkish Cypriot involvement in the administration and their claiming that it had lost its legitimacy;[65] the nature of this event is still controversial. In some areas, Greek Cypriots prevented Turkish Cypriots from travelling and entering government buildings, while some Turkish Cypriots willingly refused to withdraw due to the calls of the Turkish Cypriot administration.[69] They started living in enclaves in different areas that were blockaded by the National Guard and were directly supported by Turkey. The republic's structure was changed unilaterally by Makarios and Nicosia was divided by the Green Line, with the deployment of UNFICYP troops.[65] In response to this, their movement and access to basic supplies became more restricted by Greek forces.[70]

Powered Descent posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project

"The proposals call for a large canal or tunnel being excavated of about 55 to 80 kilometres (34 to 50 mi) depending on the route chosen to the Mediterranean Sea to bring seawater into the area. Or otherwise a 320 kilometre (200 mile) pipeline north-east to the freshwater Nile River at Rosetta. For comparison, the nearby Suez Canal is currently 193 kilometres in length. By balancing the inflow and evaporation the lake level can be held constant. Several proposed lake levels are -70, -60, -50 and -20 m. Flooding the depression to -20 m would lower the height of the world ocean by 2.16 milimeters."

ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:

If you forget the desalination nonsense, woulnd't it still affect the area east of it positively in terms of rainfall?

Plus it like, super cool

Peanut President posted:

Aren't the prevailing winds in the Sahara east to west?

Peanut President posted:

Aren't the prevailing winds in the Sahara east to west?

Peanut President posted:

Hell yeah let's do it AND lets dam the mediterranean while we're at it!

Peanut President posted:

Hell yeah let's do it AND lets dam the mediterranean while we're at it!

Guavanaut posted:

One thing I don't get is why the Nile delta suddenly decides to evaporate right at its current shoreline. Why not use it as a headwater source for the extended Suez canal?

Also why the massive and inconvenient Venice canalization?

Peanut President posted:

Hell yeah let's do it AND lets dam the mediterranean while we're at it!

fishmech posted:

They have a great gimmick going in Venice, would be a shame to ruin it.

HorseRenoir posted:

Wouldn't most of that reclaimed land just be salt-encrusted wastelands, creating toxic saltstorms that would make most of the Mediterranean uninhabitable?

computer parts posted:

Somehow the Netherlands survived.

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

0.06 for coyote seems high given that in all recorded history there's been one toddler in California and one petite adult woman in Nova Scotia actually killed by coyotes.

Dunno, maybe it's also counting people who contracted rabies from coyotes, or wrecked a car swerving around one or whatever.

Albino Squirrel posted:

I refuse to believe that deaths by moose are zero as long as Alaska exists and has roads.