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Yeah I can't imagine northern New Brunswick would be okay being in New England, what with French being the primary language and all. I'd live in ecotopia so hard though. WAFFLEHOUND fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Feb 6, 2013 |
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Red_Mage posted:
This has got to be an American map because it's drawing the bullshit diagonal line that cuts off the Canadian coast off of Alaska. Seriously, look at that poo poo, the border is a straight line and then WHOOPS LETS CLAIM THE COAST AT AN ANGLE RIGHT WHERE THERE'S OIL!
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Freudian posted:What are you talking about? Yes, the border jaunts off at an inexplicable angle, but it doesn't net the US any more oil. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_claims_in_the_Arctic#Beaufort_Sea It's probably one of the more stupid examples of US trying to redraw a border advantageous for oil rights, because clearly the border isn't drawn that way between the Yukon and Alaska and it's basically drawn so that right at the ocean boundary you can go straight out from Canada and end up in the U.S. in basically no time at all. I mean, the whole "The Northwest Passage isn't sovereign Canadian territory and we should be allowed to send our military weaving through Canadian islands as part of international waters" is directly dumber but this one is still pretty bad.
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tractor fanatic posted:Is an equidistant maritime boundary that crazy? With the Canadian proposal if you follow the land border out to sea you stay on the border, but with the American proposal, if you head out to sea perpendicular to the coast you stay in whatever country you were in. It's literally a pair of alluvial fans right there, that's not exactly stable land. And it just happens that this is the only border that the U.S. is trying to pull this thing with when it just happens to be right over a really oil rich region should say something. In pretty much every other case they just draw it out reasonably from the land borders instead of this weird oblique thing. e. https://maps.google.com/?ll=69.629618,-140.951843&spn=0.209614,0.983963&t=h&z=11 ee. Remember that coastlines are a fractal problem, so drawing a border straight out from a coastline is really really really hard to do. WAFFLEHOUND fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Feb 7, 2013 |
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Fizzil posted:Also everyone forgot Arab Shia State Except those people who pointed it out. 
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