A Winner is Jew posted:

I would post the a picture of the map, but it's interactive and really cool so here is a link to it instead.

dethslayer666 posted:

What I've learned from playing Risk is that North America is a fortress, and is very difficult to invade. The Germans would need to hold at least two of Iceland, Kamchatka and Colombia to launch a successful invasion of North America. Theoretically they could do this without Great Britain, but it would pose a significant weakness to their supply line through Greenland.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Meanwhile, on a related note:


Doesn't "New Spear Island" sound much more awesome than New Jersey? Also I think that Louisiana would be more properly translated as King Louis's Land. Finally, the translation of Idaho may be an urban legend, since it's possible it comes from the Plains Apache word ídaahę́, which means "enemy" and was apparently used to describe the Comanches.

Killer robot posted:

It's almost as shocking as an enormous state with a scattered population and few roads having a lot of airports. How awful that all those small isolated towns have little airstrips connecting them to the world.

reagan posted:

Oil, tractors/front-end loaders of all kinds, grain, and alcohol. And then the loving aircraft parts.

System Metternich posted:

(Black means that less than 1 person/sqm lives there)

Fojar38 posted:

Milk never caught on in the far east for some reason. I've heard that it's because the steppe peoples drank milk and cheese and ate beef and whatnot and so it became synonomous with barbarism in Japan, China, Korea, etc.

Could be BS though, I've never really looked into it.

HookShot posted:

I was once in a bank in Australia where a guy at the teller next to me was trying to cash a cheque and was having problems with it, and he kept asking the teller why they wrote New York twice on the address, how arrogant that was of Americans and all that sort of thing.

Also once I went shopping in Watertown when I lived in Ottawa and told my husband who was in Australia that I was going to New York to do some shopping, and when I came back and told him about it he was all excited and wanted to know what New York was like, it took a while before we realized I was talking about the state and he didn't realize there was a state and thought I'd gone to NYC.

Baronjutter posted:

Had a feeling it was something like that, cool.

Also, it might become more important again


Lots of talk about putting some sort of sails back on cargo ships.

The Narrator posted:

No Waterman butterfly projection

Content: Potential nuclear targets in the United States (Source: Natural Resources Defense Council, FEMA and Medicine and Global Survival(?)


The key is small, so:
Black dot: Target in a 2000 warhead scenario
Purple triangle: Target in a 600 warhead scenario
Red asterisk: State capital
Red square: City

As someone who's not American, can someone clarify what the 2000-warhead targets in North Dakota, Montana and around Cheyenne are? US missile silos? And then I suppose the other black dots are generally just major cities, military placements and the like?

Disco Infiva posted:

Why aren't there a million nukes in Nevada? We don't want to anger the aliens, isn't it

A Buttery Pastry posted:

I thought the limited scenario was the Russians launching a retaliatory strike with what they have left, in which case targeting silos wouldn't make that much sense, since the contents are already in Russia.

Mustang posted:

Tampa is targeted most likely because MacDill Air force Base is home to both Central Command and Special Operations Command.

withak posted:

American servicemen googling for porn overseas probably don't constitute a representative sampling of America.

FuzzyBuddha posted:

I don't recall ever getting out of school for snow in Alaska. In my entire high-school life we only ever had school cancelled one day and that was because if was like -50 and the bus drivers refused to drive in the dense ice fog.

Here, have an Alaska Native Language map.

Nice Davis posted:

Countdown to somebody posting that Soviet provincial flag with the atomic bear

the jizz taxi posted:

Internet Swedes are among the smuggest and most chauvinist people ever. To some extent, Internet Scandinavians can be all a little smug, but Swedes are generally the worst.

The Monkey Man posted:

The GRCs (Group Representation Constituencies) have four to six seats elected on the same slate, while the SMCs (Single Member Constituencies) have one seat each. The final tally of seats was People's Action Party 81, Worker's Party 6; this was the most seats that the opposition has ever held.

Pakled posted:

THAT must be why the last page was crashing Awful for Android before kalstrams changed it to a link.

withak posted:

Probably one or two filthy rich people in a town of 50.

Peanut President posted:

Looks like it's here, a whole lot of nothing and a small town.
http://goo.gl/maps/sD0AA

sbaldrick posted:

If you look a bit North of the town you can see the giant compounds on the lake

steinrokkan posted:

This map was made by somebody who hates islands, and REALLY can't stand archipelagos.

E: Also wishes glorious Singapore didn't have to share a continent with the rest of Asia.

E2: Seriously, the more I look at it the more it looks like a map plotted by bodysnatchers.

Lord Hydronium posted:

(Every country in color is a party to the treaty. All of those except yellow get a say in management of Antarctica. Brown has existing claims, red reserves the right to future claims.)

Shbobdb posted:

I have a photo of the Mediterranean climate at the Yasukuni shrine. This n at explain it's absence from China.

3peat posted:

Lycus posted:

Putin.

The President of Turkey has fans in Tajikistan, I guess.