Red_Mage posted:

9 Nations is nice, but a little out of date for various reasons. Anyhow it'd be nice to have Idaho as a buffer state, on the offchance that the Midwestern States of America get all hawkish, or if Deseret receives word from God that they need to retake the north as well as push toward the Garden of Eden (Jackson County, MO). Don't really enforce anything on Idaho, but let the other nations break on angry isolationist compounds full of impotent neonazis who've been preparing their whole lives for this.

BIG HORNY COW posted:

The proposed Bering Sea Tunnel will go through the Diomedes. Russia has approved the money, but they themselves still need a thousand miles of rail on their side to connect the strait to Yakutsk.

A huge railroad project here in Alaska would be great. It would create tons of jobs and make getting goods to remote places like Nome about a billion times easier. A rail link from the US to Asia would be pretty revolutionary, plus getting on a train in Anchorage and riding it all the way to London would be awesome.

BIG HORNY COW posted:

I guess the real endgame would be linking in with the Chinese rail system. I imagine shipping goods via freight train from China to the US would be a lot more cost effective on the whole opposed to container ships and aircraft.

The idea of Nome as the railway entry to the US and some sort of bustling transport hub is pretty funny, though.

Edit: on this end, a rail line to Nome from Anchorage would completely change life for people who live in the bush / native villages. It's pretty much up to Cessnas and Supercubs to get anything in and out of those places.

There was a crisis out there last winter where the sea ice froze in a fuel ship headed to Nome and a Russian icebreaker had to come to the rescue http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/us/icebreaker-slowly-carves-path-for-tanker-to-bring-emergency-fuel-to-alaska.html?_r=0

twoday posted:

Ok, here is a scraping of maps from my hard drive:

Russell William Thorpe posted:

Is it me or is this map... horseshit? China was the most welcoming place I've ever been. I think the key may be that they asked people how welcoming they'd be. Chinese people like to get fired up with *talk* about how nationalistic they are. This breaks down completely at the individual level- like how there are still gun shows in Blue states and gay bars in Red states etc. Like whenever there's some anti-Japanese thing in the news, in China there are anti-Japanese protests and the sushi restaurants put up big Chinese flags... but are still open for business because guess what, Chinese people will still gladly enjoy Japanese food.

Ardennes posted:

The Willis tower's brutalism isn't good enough for you.

Guavanaut posted:

That must be some kind of record for claimed:controlled territory ratio.

twoot posted:

Economist map showing UK constituencies as equal size to better depict the geographical party split which isn't visible on regular party mapping.



http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/04/mapping-britain

The Monkey Man posted:

A map showing penetration of West German TV signals into East Germany.

Peanut President posted:

A political map where america is one of the good guys.

a bad enough dude posted:

I honestly don't buy that map. I live in Austin and the only real threats are tornadoes, and they're not especially bad around here. I'm from Houston and yeah, flooding and hurricanes are a real problem, but honestly a big quake in California seems like it could do a lot more damage.

It seems like they rate tornadoes ten times worse than all other disasters, which is weird because they're really no at all.

Play posted:

Suburbians not being able to refill their swimming pools and having their golf courses turn a little browned is not exactly dangerous. I think droughts are mainly dangerous in that they can lead to wildfires, which I'm actually surprised would not be included in these metrics. Wildfires can be legitimately dangerous.

Living in coastal California I can see how by those metrics it would seem pretty safe but earthquakes and frequent wildfires are nothing to sneeze at, although the chances of dying in them are quite low.

In that link someone posted ( http://www.prb.org/Articles/2011/disasters-by-type.aspx ) I was somewhat surprised that lightning makes up over ten percent of deaths by disaster. I guess its not that surprising the pacific coast is rated so safe because in general it has little to none of the first six things on that list.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

computer parts posted:

I'm assuming monarchs don't count or else the UK would be purple.

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

Song Qingling for about served as an acting head of state a few times.

E;f,b

menino posted:

You mean the country with the preponderance of native speakers of a language creates definitions of words based on it's particular usage? That's shocking. Downright shocking.

But what's this? A member of the Anglophone world hating on the US, apropos of nothing? Real loving shocking. Use determines meaning, and we are the ones doing the using.

Here's a map:

Vegetable posted:

Why Venezuela?

PrinceRandom posted:

What is it about Java that makes it the most populated of the Indonesian Islands? Is it less mountainous or less jungled?

The Monkey Man posted:

The US also has some in Hawaii.

HookShot posted:

There is no $500 clue in Jeopardy

Gen. Ripper posted:

Bugs Bunny over Eastern Libya?

John Nance Garner posted:

First ballot at the 1920 Republican Nominating Convention:



And the 10th ballot, after shifts, which officially nominated one Warren Gamaliel Harding, for President:

HookShot posted:

I can think of like at least four other sports that Norway is better at than hockey and I'm not even Norwegian.

GreenCard78 posted:

neurobasalmedium posted:

I thought Hawaii had been inhabited for quite a while, but then my shirt informed me otherwise.

ulvir posted:

So is Canada about 70% barren like Australia? Because it looks like the only active parts of the country is just along the border with USA.

Randandal posted:

Basically, if you plan on farming in the United States, you'd better eventually reach the Gulf of Mexico if you travel due south from your farm.

reagan posted:

A huge area of Minnesota and the eastern Dakotas will face a water shortage, but Las Vegas and Phoenix are going to be just fine? Yeah right.

Bro Dad posted:

You what's fun? Searching "Greater (country name)" in GIS and seeing what turns up:

wdarkk posted:

It seems to not be quite so simple.

redscare posted:

Except for that minor bit about seceding over slavery and being part of the CSA. It doesn't have that in common with all of those other places.