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Africa is the biggest peninsula of them all. Edit: Or rather was before the Suez was dug, but who cares about that Golbez fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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Dreddout posted:Truth bomb about to drop A continent is just a peninsula with a trade organization.
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Feb 20, 2017 21:49
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There are only two continents: Afro‐Eurasia and America. Australia is a large island. Antarctica is really an archipelago under all that ice.
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Feb 20, 2017 21:58
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I mean, you're just an underwater bone archipelago burried under meat deposits, if you think about it.
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Feb 20, 2017 22:01
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There's one continent with a lot of water on it. This is how I play this game, right?
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Feb 20, 2017 22:12
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Count Roland posted:There's one continent with a lot of water on it.  Alleged Earth +200Ma
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Feb 20, 2017 22:22
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Platystemon posted:Australia is a large island. Antarctica is really an archipelago under all that ice. No lie, it would be pretty cool to see a map or rending of what Antarctica would look like minus the ice. But without actually melting all the ice of it like we're doing now. Has anyone done any kind of ice-penetrating imaging of Antarctica? The only thing I know about what's under there is that there's a subterranean lake with some pretty exotic life in it.
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Feb 20, 2017 22:22
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:No lie, it would be pretty cool to see a map or rending of what Antarctica would look like minus the ice. But without actually melting all the ice of it like we're doing now.  Current bedrock altitude.
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Feb 20, 2017 22:31
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politcally-loaded maps: loving continents, how do they work?
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Feb 20, 2017 22:40
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Platystemon posted:
Probably a dumb question, but how many of those potholes would be above sea level if the weight of the glaciers was removed, if any at all?
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Feb 20, 2017 22:41
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Europe is the only continent that matters
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Platystemon posted:
But how much of that would rebound when the ice is removed.
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Feb 20, 2017 22:41
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Dreddout posted:politcally-loaded maps: loving continents, how do they work? Judging by Scandinavia, they don't really do much loving.
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Feb 20, 2017 22:42
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Scandinavia is proof that Europe committed  penile subincision whereas Florida and Michigan prove that America is still young and virile.
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Feb 20, 2017 22:47
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Shbobdb posted:Scandinavia is proof that Europe committed This seems like the sort of thing that natural selection strongly discourages.
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Feb 20, 2017 22:52
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It actually makes a lot of sense from a Eugenic standpoint. All the sperm is going to be very young healthy sperm without a lifetime of somatic mutations accumulating. And adults get to have all the child-free sex they want. Think of it as a primitive Brave New World. Some anthropologists think it was originally a way to train very young boys to have sex since a sufficiently small penis can also gently caress a subincised penis. Lots of good stuff all around!
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Feb 20, 2017 23:09
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Feb 21, 2017 00:52
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Count Roland posted:US/Russia seems a weird category. Does this mean half the people surveyed want the US, the other half Russia? Yeah you'll note it's a rare category that generally only appears in very divided countries: Latvia: Latvians probably want US, large Russian minority probably want Russia Ukraine: West probably wants US, east probably wants Russia Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosnians probably want US, Republika Srpska probably want Russia Iraq: Iraqis probably want Russia, Kurds probably want the US
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Feb 21, 2017 00:54
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Phlegmish posted:The USA's internal borders are mostly based on completely arbitrary rectangles of different sizes. It's an ingenious way of engineering a federal state. It's also how you end up with counties that have three people living in them. Texas specifically had a boom of creating new counties in the late 19th century though, leading to it having the most counties of any state at 254. The relatively small population and size of the counties, compared to other states, appears to be a result of Texas believing they'd get way more people out there than they actually ended up getting. The kind of settlement they expected would have meant a Texas with probably somewhere around 3 times the population the state actually has today, and far more spread out into all that land instead of mostly concentrated around cities that have been the major cities of Texas for over a hundred years. Just look at this difference:   (note that the site these are originally from uses the blue coloring to indicate a county that has been created in a geographic sense, yet didn't actually have a government yet).
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Feb 21, 2017 00:57
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fishmech posted:Texas specifically had a boom of creating new counties in the late 19th century though, leading to it having the most counties of any state at 254. The relatively small population and size of the counties, compared to other states, appears to be a result of Texas believing they'd get way more people out there than they actually ended up getting. The kind of settlement they expected would have meant a Texas with probably somewhere around 3 times the population the state actually has today, and far more spread out into all that land instead of mostly concentrated around cities that have been the major cities of Texas for over a hundred years. Squaritories
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Feb 21, 2017 01:55
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Count Roland posted:There's one continent with a lot of water on it.  (politically loaded English Lake) Lord Hydronium fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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Feb 21, 2017 02:14
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 the Kurdish question? Two-state solution!
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Feb 21, 2017 02:56
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ekuNNN posted:
was this map made by German Greek nationalists? Macedonia is labelled as Skopje too.
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Feb 21, 2017 03:23
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Instanbul alone has more people than that lovely decrepit backwater. That state would be so overwhelmingly Turkish that the Greeks wouldn't even form half a political party.
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Feb 21, 2017 04:10
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Schizotek posted:Instanbul alone has more people than that lovely decrepit backwater. That state would be so overwhelmingly Turkish that the Greeks wouldn't even form half a political party. I think you will find that the state will be 100% Greek.
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Feb 21, 2017 04:23
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Guavanaut posted:
I'll be damned it my great^100 grandson has to share a continent with the perfidious...everyone
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Feb 21, 2017 04:36
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Some years ago I ran across a website for globes of some various alternate Earths. The creator is admittedly an artist and not a scientist, but he does his best to figure out how things would be different if (for example) the Earth's poles were in different places with respect to the continents, or if altitudes were inverted (as in the quoted map). http://www.worlddreambank.org/P/PLANETS.HTM I just wish the creator of these maps had restrained himself from speculating about the species of furries that might have evolved on these worlds. 
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Feb 21, 2017 04:36
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snuggle baby luvs hugs posted:I'll be damned it my great^100 grandson has to share a continent with the perfidious...everyone Don't worry that's about 5000 years at best. Crazy to think of future millions of years ahead. Admittedly this is not very mapthready.
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Feb 21, 2017 04:40
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Lord Hydronium posted:Correct. Aral Island will sink into the ocean. 
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Feb 21, 2017 04:50
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Schizotek posted:Instanbul alone has more people than that lovely decrepit backwater. That state would be so overwhelmingly Turkish that the Greeks wouldn't even form half a political party. The people who actually live there have barely changed in 1000 years. Mostly just the upper classes that are different.
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fishmech posted:The people who actually live there have barely changed in 1000 years. Mostly just the upper classes that are different. I'm glad to see the myths of post WWI forced relocations have been greatly exaggerated.
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Feb 21, 2017 05:41
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smh at the map of social fascist traitors
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Feb 21, 2017 05:48
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Shbobdb posted:I'm glad to see the myths of post WWI forced relocations have been greatly exaggerated. The relocations had nothing to do with actual genetic ancestry, everything to do with religion and language.
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Feb 21, 2017 05:53
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fishmech posted:The relocations had nothing to do with actual genetic ancestry, everything to do with religion and language. Religion and language have no correlation with ethnicity?
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Powered Descent posted:Some years ago I ran across a website for globes of some various alternate Earths. The creator is admittedly an artist and not a scientist, but he does his best to figure out how things would be different if (for example) the Earth's poles were in different places with respect to the continents, or if altitudes were inverted (as in the quoted map). I love this website!!! It was shared by Infratael I think in lf all the way back in 2009 or 10, so weird and wonderful. And they really are globes too, not just maps, the guy actually created real physical models for each of his ideas. His here's conception of an earth with twice our current CO2 levels:  quote:So the new Europe's climate is mild and maritime--the harsh continental winters of the east are gone, for the old continent is gone--Eurafrasia's broken up like Pangea before it.
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give it a few more decades and you'll have that map back again
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Baron Corbyn posted:was this map made by German Greek nationalists? Macedonia is labelled as Skopje too. It's from a German comedy party (like in real comedy and not ironic one)
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Kurtofan posted:I really want to see an updated version of that map It's amazing how badly we hosed up that election.
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