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re: The highest peaks in the world are on the same latitude as New Orleans
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:55 am to RogerTheShrubber
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:55 am to RogerTheShrubber
quote:See those go completely against what I have pictured in my head. The others, too, but those two are just like brain teasers.
The Atlantic end of the Panama Canal is west of the Pacific end.
Main is closer to Africa than Florida
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Posted on 7/5/16 at 1:00 am to JuiceTerry
Yeah, until you look at it on a globe, the Maine one will blow your mind.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 2:28 am to RogerTheShrubber
There's no way Maine is closer to Africa than Miami...
I know this is true, is it because how modern maps are drawn that it looks like it is 3 times the distance from Maine to Africa than Maine to Florida?
I know this is true, is it because how modern maps are drawn that it looks like it is 3 times the distance from Maine to Africa than Maine to Florida?
Posted on 7/5/16 at 3:31 am to boatless2
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is it because how modern maps are drawn that it looks like it is 3 times the distance from Maine to Africa than Maine to Florida?
It has to do with taking a spherical object and putting it to a flat surface. It's skews the distances.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 3:39 am to RogerTheShrubber
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If you include underwater, yep. Land based, it's Denali and Mt. St. Elias.
No death zone, no care.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 4:56 am to RogerTheShrubber
I enjoy these sort of things. I love geography and what some would call useless information.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 5:34 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Yeah, it's kind of hard to think Rome is roughly the same latitude as the lower latitudes of Canada
The Gulf Stream and other factors account for Europe's milder climate. For you climate change deniers, a disruption of just a few degrees could usher in a new Ice Age in much of Europe.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 6:19 am to JuiceTerry
Want to know why?
Posted on 7/5/16 at 6:36 am to Pectus
Hollow Earth Theory where the centrifugal forces push the interior rock piles out from all their digging.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:01 pm to JuiceTerry
There are 5 parishes in Louisiana with a land area greater than the state of Rhode Island.
This post was edited on 7/5/16 at 12:06 pm
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:03 pm to Layabout
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For you climate change deniers, a disruption of just a few degrees could usher in a new Ice Age in much of Europe
Im not one but thanks for thinking of me.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:24 pm to JETigER
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Places in Mexico are farther north than New Orleans
Oh yeah? Name one.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:50 pm to JuiceTerry
Haha you like to get stoned
Find a job
J/k
Find a job
J/k
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:54 pm to El Campo Tiger
Juarez for one. Plenty of Mexico is north of New Orleans.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:58 pm to JuiceTerry
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The highest peaks in the world are on the same latitude as New Orleans
Crazy, huh?
Not really, in fact I think there is an entire field of science dedicated to it. I believe it is called geology.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 12:59 pm to El Campo Tiger
There are plenty of donkey shows up north...
Posted on 7/5/16 at 1:00 pm to JuiceTerry
no not really
Posted on 7/5/16 at 1:30 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Main(e) is closer to Africa than Florida
i originally read this as the distance from maine to florida > the distance from maine to africa, which isn't even close to correct.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 2:01 pm to G2160
If you go due south of New Orleans, you would not touch South America.
SA is completely east of say NO.
SA is completely east of say NO.
Posted on 7/5/16 at 2:17 pm to G2160
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i originally read this as the distance from maine to florida > the distance from maine to africa, which isn't even close to correct.
As was I, I was trying to figure out how that could possible be true
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