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Started by bayonetbrant, January 23, 2014, 11:24:06 AM

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GDS_Starfury

IIRC Bawb's 'stache went by the name of Washington in America at the time.
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bayonetbrant

here's something interesting - US states redrawn to so that the population in each is roughly equal.  Note that none of the existing state names were kept, except NYC inherited the name "New York" b/c it's basically a city-state like LA and Philly.

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Martok

Fascinating.  Also interesting to see which cities they designated as the capital of each state.  I wonder what factors/thinking (if any) was used in determining them. 

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bayonetbrant

existing capitals and/or largest cities?
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bayonetbrant

Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 05, 2016, 07:34:31 AM
existing capitals and/or largest cities?

Never mind - Bakersfield wouldn't have been picked over Fresno.  Both choices suck; both are crappy cities.
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Martok

There seems to be no rhyme or reason to them.  Some are indeed existing capitals, some are the new state's most centrally-located (or only) large city/metro area, and others (such as "Fireland's" capital of Elyria, which is in between Cleveland & Toledo) seems to be rather random.  ??? 

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"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

LongBlade

Link to a map possibly used by Columbus. Sorry - having trouble embedding the image here.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-this-map-guide-columbus-180955295/
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Barthheart

I'd love a copy of that to mount on my man cave wall. I'm trying to piece together a collect of old maps for the walls.

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QuoteThis image shows the latest results as colored dots superimposed on an artist's conception of the Milky Way. Red dots show stars that formed when the Milky Way was young and small, while blue shows stars that formed more recently, when the Milky Way was big and mature. The color scale shows how many billion years have passed since those stars formed. Credit: G. Stinson (MPIA)

http://phys.org/news/2016-01-largest-age-milky-reveals-galaxy.html

Martok

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"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

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bayonetbrant

Interesting to see 2 of the places I lived in Germany right underneath planned Soviet nuke strikes should the WWIII balloon have ever gone up

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GDS_Starfury

whats more interesting is that the major strikes lay across the deep logistic paths of NATO armies and lines of retreat.
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Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.


bayonetbrant

Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 29, 2016, 01:21:18 AM
whats more interesting is that the major strikes lay across the deep logistic paths of NATO armies and lines of retreat.

A lot of those locations were NATO equipment / ammo stockpiles.

Interestingly enough, they missed most of the nuclear weapons storage sites from the old 59th Ordnance Brigade.

They did manage to get virtually all the major airbases, though.
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A new digital map offers an impressive rendering of the Mars landscape.

Using NASA open data, Ordnance Survey, the U.K.'s national mapping agency, has surveyed part of the red planet's surface to create a one-off paper and digital map. The 2,282-by-1,691-mile Mars map, produced at a scale of 1 to 4 million, is part of an OS effort to assess potential use of its mapping expertise for future Mars missions.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/02/16/uk-mapping-agency-ordnance-survey-creates-cool-digital-mars-map.html?intcmp=hplnws

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/news/2016/os-maps-out-of-this-world.html

Zoomable map images available here:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/osmapping/


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