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 Not even a tectonic plate to its name. No wonder Europe has small man syndrome
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All of this debate is just small men trying to find meaning in fleeting things. Continents are ephemeral, Earth will inevitably cool down and plate tectonics will cease and we'll finally have a solid foundation to make our maps.
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Feb 9, 2024 08:43
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Unfortunately the sun will boil life from the earth billions of years before* plate tectonics cease. *the sun will destroy life on earth in 500-700 million years, at least life more advanced than microbes
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Feb 9, 2024 08:51
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God has already provided us with a perfect 1:1 map of the whole Earth - it's called the Earth! #praisehim #stopgeography
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His Divine Shadow posted:Unfortunately the sun will boil life from the earth billions of years before* plate tectonics cease. Unless we invent a dyson sphere, which won't happen in any of our lifetimes, but if we don't kill ourselves first, 500 million years seems like a timeline where it could happen.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:The one map illustrates the US pop density once you get halfway through Texas  BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Britain is in fact the exact benchmark for whether it’s a continent or not. Britain is an island and so is everything smaller than it. Honshu is a continent but Kyushu not. Neither island of New Zealand is as well Say “hello” to the eight newbies. 
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Feb 9, 2024 09:16
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Platystemon posted:
Extend it to Java so we can have Indonesia as a country spanning four continents.
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Feb 9, 2024 09:19
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steinrokkan posted:Extend it to Java so we can have Indonesia as a country spanning four continents. That would be five. New Guinea Borneo Sumatra Sulawesi Java
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Feb 9, 2024 09:28
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Oh right, I overlooked Sulawesi was ahead of Java The more the merrier
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 https://vividmaps.com/most-impressive-landforms-in-the-united-states/
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Air Skwirl posted:Unless we invent a dyson sphere, which won't happen in any of our lifetimes, but if we don't kill ourselves first, 500 million years seems like a timeline where it could happen. I don't see how a dyson sphere would solve the earth overheating though, unless you made it smaller than earth's orbit and used it to reduce the amount of light hitting the earth. There are some other tricks in the "realistic scif-fi" drawer too, such as star lifting and doing a bunch of controlled near passes with a very large asteroid to move the earth's orbit further out, which would have to be done over and over, over a span of tens of millions of years. Dunno if that is more or less plausible than a dyson sphere.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I don't see how a dyson sphere would solve the earth overheating though, unless you made it smaller than earth's orbit and used it to reduce the amount of light hitting the earth. If we have a giant orb around the sun absorbing a huge chunk of it's energy that should stop the sun from burning us all to death, I think?
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man, even new zealand's continent is lame
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« Zealandia » is a colonizer name. Beleriand is preferred.
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otoh naming it after Sjælland is a good way of preventing choirs.
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Platystemon posted:Say “hello” to the eight newbies. I was going to make a post about how it's interesting that some of the world's largest islands are essentially uninhabited due to their latitude, and started googling for 'eerily beautiful' pictures, ended up finding this instead 
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Phlegmish posted:I was going to make a post about how it's interesting that some of the world's largest islands are essentially uninhabited due to their latitude, and started googling for 'eerily beautiful' pictures, ended up finding this instead I never really watched It's Always Sunny in Philadephia.
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It's Often Sunny in Reyðarfjörður
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:« Zealandia » is a colonizer name. Beleriand is preferred. You only have to change one letter and you get Aotearea!
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Sulawesi always looks to me like some kid was having too much fun making unrealistic islands in the world editor. Like it’s a kinda cool looking island shape but lol it’s so "fantasy map island" that it breaks the fourth wall a bit too much. Like yeah cool a dragon shaped island with incredibly narrow and incredibly high mountains all over the place, get real.
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Air Skwirl posted:If we have a giant orb around the sun absorbing a huge chunk of it's energy that should stop the sun from burning us all to death, I think? Dyson sphere is just more efficiently collecting the energy it's already emitting. Not gonna help when it starts to expand.
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Muscle Tracer posted:Dyson sphere is just more efficiently collecting the energy it's already emitting. Not gonna help when it starts to expand. just put solar sails on the sphere so it moves its orbit out as the sun heats up
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Carthag Tuek posted:just put solar sails on the sphere so it moves its orbit out as the sun heats up What we really need is an INVERSE dyson sphere around the EARTH, so that when the sun expands beyond Earth's orbit, the planet will still be safe.
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Saladman posted:Sulawesi always looks to me like some kid was having too much fun making unrealistic islands in the world editor. Like it’s a kinda cool looking island shape but lol it’s so "fantasy map island" that it breaks the fourth wall a bit too much. 
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Muscle Tracer posted:What we really need is an INVERSE dyson sphere around the EARTH, so that when the sun expands beyond Earth's orbit, the planet will still be safe. We do not stray beyond the Bubble! Beyond the Bubble there is only Flame.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:All of y’all’s moms are continents yo momma so fat she reached hydrostatic equilibrium Guavanaut posted:otoh naming it after Sjælland is a good way of preventing choirs. NZ is named after the Dutch province of Zeeland though
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do they get seals in Zeeland? (iirc, Sjælland/Zealand = land of seals, Zeeland = land of sea; afaik anyway)
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omg I love this. I've always argued with friends about how some mountains are just more impressive than others despite being smaller, and prominence doesn't really capture it.
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Religions of the US House of Representatives.  pre-euro currencies  USSR involvement in regime change  Saladman posted:Sulawesi always looks to me like some kid was having too much fun making unrealistic islands in the world editor. Like it’s a kinda cool looking island shape but lol it’s so "fantasy map island" that it breaks the fourth wall a bit too much. It's just like all those other archipeligos, but the bits are still connected.
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Who is that map counting as an openly atheist member of congress? I'm pretty sure Pete Stark was the first and only one. He's been out of congress for half a decade.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Religions of the US House of Representatives. Quality is horrible on this, is there an actual UU congressperson?
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SlothfulCobra posted:pre-euro currencies nordic sub-currencies (too lazy to look up what thats called, but like cents) are called øre which comes from aureus as in the roman gold coin, but to modern scandinavians its homophonic and homographic with "ear" also wtf lazy rear end "other etymologies" for abunch of them
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Air Skwirl posted:Quality is horrible on this, is there an actual UU congressperson? Ami Bera from California famously is UU. Google says there are three total. Deborah Ross of North Carolina and Judy Chu of California are the other two, but I'm not familiar with them.
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Not a map, but Pew has a chart: Krysten Sinema is the only "unaffiliated" member of congress, but she isn't an atheist. There's no atheists currently serving, so that map must be counting either humanist, Unitarian, or some "Don't Know" as an atheist. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Feb 9, 2024 |
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The US is only 2% Jewish? Huh. Thought it would be at least 5
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This graphic is prettier. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2023/01/03/faith-on-the-hill-2023/#:~:text=Both%20the%20Senate%20and%20the,56%25%20in%20the%20Senate). Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Who is that map counting as an openly atheist member of congress? I'm pretty sure Pete Stark was the first and only one. He's been out of congress for half a decade. Jared Huffman of California. Air Skwirl posted:Quality is horrible on this, is there an actual UU congressperson? Of course not. There are three.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Not a map, but Pew has a chart: Unaffiliated is doing a lot of work to bump up the percentages of everyone in congress, because if you're just someone answering a phone poll it's a lot easier say that than if you're a sitting member of congress.
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SlothfulCobra posted:This graphic is prettier. He specifically calls himself a "religiously unaffiliated humanist." I guess that is technically an atheist, but he doesn't self-identify as an atheist like Pete Stark did.
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