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- vague
ever stare at googlemaps and your mind just gets somewhat blown away.
im sure you dont. but i do.
like the fact that alaska is almost as big as the entire fucking USA, and its practically double the entire length of cali to washington away from us. you could fit a gigantic ass thriving population in there, yet there isnt one whatsoever.
or just how damned close alaska is to russia, to the tune of like 100 miles, yet we're considered worlds apart, which we are primarily only cause its miles and miles of uninhabited wilderness. yet, still awesome.
- MrOneHundred0
Take a look at the middle of Australia sometime, dude. There’s nothing! Nothing!
- hey! .. theres like a big red rock somewhere! true that :DNewElpaso
- ismith0
unless you're looking at google earth, thats because the distortion increases at the edges (forget the name of this kind of projection). that's why alaska looks so fucking huge. although it is big...
- vague0
true, oz is pretty empty, but its like EMPTY empty... im more blown away by the far east of russia and shit, where its like endless mass of mountains and trees that looks like complete and utter no-mans-land
- coalson0
Is this the smoke weed thread?
- Corvo0
In case you don't know (i'm sure you don't but I do), Alaska was bought from Russia for the crazy amount of 7.2 million bucks in 1867.
- lol. didnt know that. poorrrrr alaska.vague
- Crazy isn't it? Worst/Best business ratio in History I think.Corvo
- I wonder what $7.2 millions were worth 140 years ago, but it doesn't sounds like an entire gold mine at least.Corvo
- It was a damn cheap goldmine, that Alaska.rafalski
- i think 140 years ago that was a lot. still, who cares. ok it has oil. but you cannot drill anyway..9832892398
- brains0
fffffft.. hold.. *cough *cough *cough.. Did someone say weed thread?
- ukit0
Kazakhstan is half as big as the US yet the only thing most people know about it is the movie Borat.
- MrOneHundred0
It’s just so BIG man... and there’s...
Nothin’
Nothin’
- 98328923980
fuuuuuuck i just made the leap from google maps to google earth and now discovered the world is actually round
- Llyod0
you ever start smelling and then you think, hey, I'm smelling the inside of my nose. that totally blows my mind.
- my mind just came9832892398
- I think I just blew up.Jaline
- HAHAHAHAHA.Studiospooky
- that's brilliant lloyd hahakelpie
- vague0
anyone been to the countryside of russia? how does it compare to like, the rural areas of england/switz/scotland/etc. always wondered if youve seen one farmland, youve seen em all, or if places can get really wacky with that shit.
- yes - been there - check below.invisiblechamber
- ehh - check next page.invisiblechamber
- Corvo0
This thread will have a dire repercussion in all the 3 hemispheres of the Orb, I can tell you that much.
- Jaline0
"you could fit a gigantic ass thriving population in there, yet there isnt one whatsoever."
Umm...that's Canada.
- urban100
"like the fact that alaska is almost as big as the entire fucking USA, and its practically double the entire length of cali to washington away from us."
um... if you are basing your judgement of alaska on google maps, it's not really that big. the mercator projection used for their maps greatly distorts land masses at the poles to make them appear MUCH larger than they really are. look at alaska on a globe and then compare it to the u.s.
based on wiki's stats... alaska (663,267 sq mi) is about 2.5 times as large as texas (261,797 sq mi).
- vague0
i was exaggerating. its still really damned big.
- mikotondria20
I like to fire up local.live.com, set it at a nice angle, and do a slow fly by from the Ivory Coast up through to the Algerian coast, thru the desert, theres just utterly nothing there, but it all looks really fun and interesting.
One day I'll have an immersive 3d display, and super high real time imagery, and I'll be just like, gone...
- neave0
"...alaska is almost as big as the entire fucking USA..."
Nah it ain't, that's what you get when you try to draw a globe onto a 2D surface, it becomes all distorted. Have a read of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map…
But I'm sure you really knew that.
- kelpie0
you know I think it might be something to do with the 2D depiction of the globe, like...
- 98328923980
- man, that's almost as big as the entire fucking US of A! what country is this?Corvo