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# ? Jan 12, 2014 01:31

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made of bees: May 21, 2013

Liberia finally switched over?

# ? Jan 12, 2014 01:36

freebooter: Jul 7, 2009

This one's good too:

# ? Jan 12, 2014 01:36

Jerry Manderbilt: May 31, 2012; No matter how much paperwork I process, it never goes away. It only increases.

If the Earth somehow can still sustain life 250 million years later I'd like to see that gigantic mountain (seriously how tall would that thing be?) or huge lake in the middle of the continent.

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# ? Jan 12, 2014 02:20

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Jerry Manderbilt posted:

If the Earth somehow can still sustain life 250 million years later I'd like to see that gigantic mountain or huge lake in the middle of the continent.

That looks like an exciting new earth and I wanna live there.

Also it means no more flying over/close to the Med.
gently caress flying over the Oceans and seas.

on the bad news side the Med is now completely gone

# ? Jan 12, 2014 03:29

Kakairo: Dec 5, 2005; In case of emergency, my ass can be used as a flotation device.

Jerry Manderbilt posted:

If the Earth somehow can still sustain life 250 million years later I'd like to see that gigantic mountain or huge lake in the middle of the continent.

How are Alaska and Baja California almost the same as they are now?

# ? Jan 12, 2014 03:35

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Kakairo posted:

How are Alaska and Baja California almost the same as they are now?

At a guess because they're at the edges and there's no other landmass for them to get smooshed into. It's not just them, the whole of the West Coast looks about the same as today and much of South America and northern Russia look to be the same way, just at funky angles.

# ? Jan 12, 2014 04:00

sticklefifer: Nov 11, 2003; by VideoGames

Metrication posted:

freebooter posted:

This one's good too:

Metric I can understand, and I feel the US should make a greater effort to convert.

But I've never seen the point in using Celsius for weather. 0-100 is a nice round-numbered scale, but Celsius never uses over half of that for weather. You don't need anything approaching boiling. In Celsius, 35 is really hot outside, but there's no benchmark number it approaches to portray that. In Fahrenheit, 0-100 is a relatively comfortable range for human life with extremes on either end - you wouldn't want to live in much hotter or colder. In temperate areas the bottom third of the 0-100 range is winter, the middle third is spring/autumn, and the top third is summer. I've been in 118 F weather, and it's hot as balls. 40 doesn't have the same ring to it.

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FourLeaf: Dec 2, 2011

Jerry Manderbilt posted:

If the Earth somehow can still sustain life 250 million years later I'd like to see that gigantic mountain (seriously how tall would that thing be?) or huge lake in the middle of the continent.

That's gonna be one arid-as-gently caress Earth.

# ? Jan 12, 2014 07:02

Andorra: Dec 12, 2012

I like Fahrenheit because it's what I'm used to.

# ? Jan 12, 2014 07:12

Deformed Church: May 12, 2012; 5'5", IQ 81

sticklefifer posted:

Metric I can understand, and I feel the US should make a greater effort to convert.

But I've never seen the point in using Celsius for weather. 0-100 is a nice round-numbered scale, but Celsius never uses over half of that for weather. You don't need anything approaching boiling. In Celsius, 35 is really hot outside, but there's no benchmark number it approaches to portray that. In Fahrenheit, 0-100 is a relatively comfortable range for human life with extremes on either end - you wouldn't want to live in much hotter or colder. In temperate areas the bottom third of the 0-100 range is winter, the middle third is spring/autumn, and the top third is summer. I've been in 118 F weather, and it's hot as balls. 40 doesn't have the same ring to it.

I think it's just the perspective you're coming at it from. You could swap celsius and fahrenheit and then talk about how you just have freezing at some random number, and your argument is basically identical to what I'd say. I'm in the UK, so to me 40 is a number that's really kind of uncomfortable to live in while I don't really have a hold on what 118 is. If I'm reading about the Polar Vortex thing, all temperatures are coming in Fahrenheit and the only idea I really have of what those mean based on the fact that I know freezing is about 32, comparisons between the numbers and everyone saying it's really cold.

It's weird how ingrained an arbitrary number scale can get that two systems which aren't really objectively better or worse can just sound incomprehensible and stupid to two different people simply because they've been using the other. Of course, since Celsius has 0 and 100 based on hard, identifiable and visible boundaries while Fahrenheit has it because some guy said "hey, we should put our numbers here," it's obviously better.

Driving on the right is silly, because I'm used to the left.

# ? Jan 12, 2014 07:24

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Jerry Manderbilt posted:

If the Earth somehow can still sustain life 250 million years later I'd like to see that gigantic mountain (seriously how tall would that thing be?) or huge lake in the middle of the continent.

Except the Atlantic is the ocean that's expanding and the pacific is shrinking so North America should collide with east Asia, not Europe.

edit: looking it up its apparently a bit more complicated then that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea_Ultima

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# ? Jan 12, 2014 08:07

Hydrolith: Oct 30, 2009

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Also it means no more flying over/close to the Med.
gently caress flying over the Oceans and seas.

Why? This seems like a strange position to take. If you're in a plane for hours at a time, what difference does it make what's under you?

# ? Jan 12, 2014 08:13

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MooCowlian posted:

boundaries while Fahrenheit has it because some guy said "hey, we should put our numbers here," it's obviously better.

Driving on the right is silly, because I'm used to the left.

Fahrenheit is based on scale. Freezing to Normal Human Body Temperature (as originally measured) was separated by exactly 64 degrees. Now that normal is 98 it's kind of broken.

edit, wiki: " he adjusted the scale so that the melting point of ice would be 32 degrees and body temperature 96 degrees, so that 64 intervals would separate the two, allowing him to mark degree lines on his instruments by simply bisecting the interval six times"

# ? Jan 12, 2014 13:15

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FourLeaf posted:

If you're from the United States, you can take this quiz to generate a map showing where your dialect is most common. Here's my map:

As neat as this is for Americans, I find it way more fascinating for foreigners to compare.

I live 3 hours drive north of the Montana border, so this really isn't a surprise:

This answer made me laugh though, I don't think it gets bluer than that. Almost everyone I know says runners, so I guess that's a really Canadian word.

# ? Jan 12, 2014 15:06

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Hydrolith posted:

Why? This seems like a strange position to take. If you're in a plane for hours at a time, what difference does it make what's under you?

I dunno. Subjective amounts of turbulence and discomfort.

# ? Jan 12, 2014 16:10

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Project Reality was a really good game and Al-Basrah was a really good map.

# ? Jan 12, 2014 17:51

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Just The Facts posted:

Project Reality was a really good game and Al-Basrah was a really good map.

Ah man, PR when the stars aligned (2 teams with great commanders, squads with mics) was a phenomenal game. Nothing felt so large scale on such a small scale. I loved how weapon kits and tanks were so preciously vital to winning a game.

I like slow paced shooters and the frantic firefights, if only it had its own engine so they could incorporate stuff like tracking your own squad mates better. I know you can check the clunky map but when you're running in a forest with no friendly tags it's a bit hard. Realism!!!

I saw they released a version a few months back but I don't have the time or commitment to just jump in. I think I bought the BF2 pack on steam so I might give it a go.

# ? Jan 12, 2014 18:02

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Picnic Princess posted:

As neat as this is for Americans, I find it way more fascinating for foreigners to compare.

I live 3 hours drive north of the Montana border, so this really isn't a surprise:

This answer made me laugh though, I don't think it gets bluer than that. Almost everyone I know says runners, so I guess that's a really Canadian word.

Well, maybe middle Canada. On the west coast we say sneakers.

# ? Jan 12, 2014 18:05

Metrication: Dec 12, 2010; Raskin had one problem: Jobs regarded him as an insufferable theorist or, to use Jobs's own more precise terminology, "a shithead who sucks".

freebooter posted:

This one's good too:

In October Burma announced it was going to go officially metric, I think I read somewhere that Liberia is preparing to as well.

Apparently Hawaii will become the first US State to go metric in 2018.

# ? Jan 12, 2014 19:06

Deformed Church: May 12, 2012; 5'5", IQ 81

Peanut President posted:

Fahrenheit is based on scale. Freezing to Normal Human Body Temperature (as originally measured) was separated by exactly 64 degrees. Now that normal is 98 it's kind of broken.

edit, wiki: " he adjusted the scale so that the melting point of ice would be 32 degrees and body temperature 96 degrees, so that 64 intervals would separate the two, allowing him to mark degree lines on his instruments by simply bisecting the interval six times"

Yeah, I was exaggerating the case to make a point. At the end of a day, it's still basically based on whatever the lowest temperature he could get a hold of was and our body temperature, fiddled to make it easy for measuring. It's not necessarily worse than celsius, especially given that similar to fahrenheit, better measurement now has freezing and boiling at not quite 0 and 100, but I definitely disagree that fahrenheit is actually better or more useful.

Edit:

made of bees posted:

The only reasonable temperature scale is Kelvin

Three digit temperatures for everything I want to use? No way, man.

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# ? Jan 12, 2014 20:19

made of bees: May 21, 2013

The only reasonable temperature scale is Kelvin :colbert:

# ? Jan 12, 2014 20:22

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Jerry Manderbilt posted:

If the Earth somehow can still sustain life 250 million years later I'd like to see that gigantic mountain (seriously how tall would that thing be?) or huge lake in the middle of the continent.

I believe the strength of the rocks that make up the Earth's crusts put the upper limit of mountains at about 10 kilometers, though don't quote me on it. Anyway, there's also erosion, which cuts them down to size if they're really tall and not supported by additional mountain building. The Rocky Mountains in the US for example were like the Tibetan plateau when they were first formed,~55 million years ago, but erosion quickly reduced them to a more manageable size. Apparently erosion is actually strengthened during the super continent phase, so it might not take long to smooth that poo poo out.

Mister Adequate posted:

At a guess because they're at the edges and there's no other landmass for them to get smooshed into. It's not just them, the whole of the West Coast looks about the same as today and much of South America and northern Russia look to be the same way, just at funky angles.

Parts of California are attached to the Pacific Plate though, and it's not impossible that the stresses of it rubbing against North America causes the San Andreas fault to shift inwards and cut straight across, which would let the Pacific Plate pull most of California northwards into Alaska.

It's also ignoring the fact that the mantle of the Earth isn't entirely uniform, with some continents riding high and others sitting low. Indonesia for example sits about a kilometer lower than Europe and most of North America, while Africa around the Rift Valley is some hundreds of meters higher. Which means that when the continents move, the coastline can change dramatically. This also ignores the rebound after the last glaciation, which I can see they haven't included in that map.

E: Oh yeah, the spreading of the sea floor also raises the sea level considerably, so it would probably drop during the mostly inactive phase of the super continent. I believe that was the case during the Triassic.

Vorpal Cat posted:

Except the Atlantic is the ocean that's expanding and the pacific is shrinking so North America should collide with east Asia, not Europe.

edit: looking it up its apparently a bit more complicated then that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea_Ultima

That's only one scenario though, there is also the theory that the continents will assemble around the North Pole, since the rule of previous super continents seems to have been to reassemble at a 90 degree angle to the previous center. In that scenario, Antarctica probably doesn't get to join though.

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# ? Jan 12, 2014 21:25

Hip Flask: Dec 14, 2010; Zip Mask

Celsius is perfect for us norwegians. Above zero, it rains, below, it snows.

# ? Jan 13, 2014 15:38

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United Van Lines published their its inbound and outbound moving data for the U.S., so Seth Kadish at Vizual Statistix compiled the data & made a map.

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# ? Jan 13, 2014 17:49

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Android Bicyclist posted:

United Van Lines published their its inbound and outbound moving data for the U.S., so Seth Kadish at Vizual Statistix compiled the data & made a map.

Moving to Oregon in April
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# ? Jan 14, 2014 16:47

Rabbit Hill: Mar 11, 2009; God knows what lives in me in place of me.; Grimey Drawer

Retronaut posted some interesting maps today, all displaying the non-existent island of Brasil.

Piri Reis 1513

Ortellius 1595

Gerardus Mercator 1589

Unknown 1570

Wikipedia on 'Brasil (mythical island)' posted:

Brasil, also known as Hy-Brasil or several other variants,[1] is a phantom island which was said to lie in the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland. In Irish myths it was said to be cloaked in mist, except for one day each seven years, when it became visible but still could not be reached. It probably has similar roots to other mythical islands said to exist in the Atlantic, such as Atlantis, Saint Brendan's Island, and the Isle of Mam.

Nautical charts identified an island called "Bracile" west of Ireland in the Atlantic Ocean as far back as 1325, in a portolan chart by Angelino Dulcert. Later it appeared as Insula de Brasil in the Venetian map of Andrea Bianco (1436), attached to one of the larger islands of a group of islands in the Atlantic. This was identified for a time with the modern island of Terceira in the Azores.

A Catalan chart of about 1480 labels two islands "Illa de brasil", one to the south west of Ireland (where the mythical place was supposed to be) and one south of "Illa verde" or Greenland.

On maps the island was shown as being circular, often with a central strait or river running east-west across its diameter. Despite the failure of attempts to find it, this appeared regularly on maps lying south west of Galway Bay until 1865, by which time it was called Brasil Rock.

E: Another interesting map from Retronaut: Thomas Burnet's 1694 map of the world without water

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# ? Jan 14, 2014 17:55

joedevola: Sep 11, 2004; worst song, played on ugliest guitar

Does this count as a map?

Click fer bigger.

# ? Jan 14, 2014 20:24

DrBouvenstein: Feb 28, 2007; I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

A map of a shot-ton of micro and craft breweries in the US:

Click for MASSIVE.

# ? Jan 14, 2014 22:29

Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

Middle Earth on Europe

# ? Jan 14, 2014 22:39

JEEVES420: Feb 16, 2005; The world is a mess... and I just need to rule it

joedevola posted:

Does this count as a map?

Click fer bigger.

gently caress yeah. I printed this in poster size and hung it on my wall :razz:

# ? Jan 15, 2014 16:21

Pleads: Jun 9, 2005; pew pew pew

JEEVES420 posted:

gently caress yeah. I printed this in poster size and hung it on my wall

I remember making the Steven Segal film room but I totally forgot the :v:

s digging up tetris blocks to put on a conveyor belt to other :v:

s who disassemble and bury the blocks for the :v:

s to dig up again. :allears:

# ? Jan 15, 2014 17:23

sticklefifer: Nov 11, 2003; by VideoGames

Hogge Wild posted:

Middle Earth on Europe

I wouldn't have guessed Mordor was in the Balkans.

# ? Jan 15, 2014 22:56

DarkCrawler: Apr 6, 2009; by vyelkin

DrBouvenstein posted:

A map of a shot-ton of micro and craft breweries in the US:

Click for MASSIVE.

Goddamn Americans love beer :stare:

# ? Jan 15, 2014 23:04

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DrBouvenstein posted:

A map of a shot-ton of micro and craft breweries in the US:

Click for MASSIVE.

Being a European I, of course, used to always talk poo poo about American beer.

Then I had some stuff brewed by Big Sky up in Missoula and I shut the hell up. There are some ridiculously good craft breweries out there. :stare:

# ? Jan 15, 2014 23:56

Fernhill: Oct 28, 2013

The famous Vinland Map:

(click for 3038x2103)

Discovered in 1957, it was believed to be the first map to depict the Americas, showing areas where the Norse explorers had landed. It is now believed by many to be a clever forgery.

For the history of the controversy, see Analyzing the Vinland Map: Is It a Fake? and a special PBS Nova episode on it: Nova: The Viking Deception. Real or fake, the story behind it is fascinating.

# ? Jan 16, 2014 00:05

Captain Yesterday: Oct 8, 2007; Now it's time to do my people's native dance "DO THE HUSTLE"

(click for big)

Urban planner makes map of what Seattle would look like if all the world's ice sheets melted.

# ? Jan 16, 2014 20:41

Bip Roberts: Mar 29, 2005

Captain Yesterday posted:

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Urban planner makes map of what Seattle would look like if all the world's ice sheets melted.

There's a google map app that does this too.

# ? Jan 16, 2014 23:45

Jerry Manderbilt: May 31, 2012; No matter how much paperwork I process, it never goes away. It only increases.

Dusseldorf posted:

There's a google map app that does this too.

At 60m, literally my entire hometown in the East Bay (except the wealthiest parts in the eastern hills) would be flooded.

# ? Jan 17, 2014 03:12

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sticklefifer: Nov 11, 2003; by VideoGames

Those kinds of things assume an immediate/unimpeded rise though. During the gradual rise of the water that would happen over centuries, coastal cities would be setting up huge levees, dams, and channels.

# ? Jan 17, 2014 04:02

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