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Greg Utas wrote: bull
A key component of Lounge-ware ?
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tauroids
No, no. Those are the little bulgie things on my scanner cable.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: your body and your wedding ring are indistinguishable as tauroids.
"tauroids:" a misspelling of donut-shaped mathematical objects, an annual meteor shower, or, ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Personally, I only accept the existence of Rodinia. All others are "johnny-come-lately" pale imitations of a real continent.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Rodinia - possibly the original inspiration for that song "Breaking Up is Hard to Do".
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I think, as someone else mentioned, it's called Eurasia.
When I come to think of it, north America is the same continent as south America. Therefore, with the same logic: Stop calling it north America! Also, stop calling yourself American if you mean you are a usaian. Americans live in both us of a, Argentina, Brazil and all over that continent.
Oh, also - let me remind you. Usa is 5% of the world.
Let's divide! Let's hate each other!!! As much as we can! That way everyone can be happy.
War - it's fantastic!
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First, here - make what you will of this: American (word) - Wikipedia[^]
Member 11246948 wrote: Let's divide! Let's hate each other!!! As much as we can! That way everyone can be happy.
War - it's fantastic! Secondly - you need to perhaps familiarize yourself a bit more with how the lounge works. What goes on here. Perhaps look at the topic options (News, Question, ..., Joke, Rant) and the comments icons recently added? We have discussions. We have debates. We have fun.
And if you step out of line again . . . .
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You forgot to mention that in case somebody does not aggree with you that he/she is wrong
modified 27-Mar-21 21:01pm.
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I don't usually waste typing on that which is intuitively obvious.
You, for example, knew without my telling you . 🎓
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"America" exists wherever there is a McDonald's or a Starbucks.
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And I thought it is enough to have a crazy hairstyle that looks like a toupee
modified 27-Mar-21 21:01pm.
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The United States of America is referred to as America for the same reason United Mexican States / Estados Unidos Mexicanos is referred to as Mexico.
No one has time to say the long versions.
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Yes, Europe and Asia are one continent, we all know that.
On the other hand... just the other day I watched a YouTube video which discussed continents and why Australia is a continent while Greenland isn't.
It concluded that the reason many people consider Europe and Asia to be different continents is due to cultural differences.
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Message Closed
modified 3-Feb-21 13:23pm.
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So Antartica is really just a strip of land going all about the outside edge to keep all the water in?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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That's what they tell me.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Europe and Asia to be different continents is due to cultural differences. Well, that's a difficult argument for them to uphold.
I mean, if that were true then we'd have Quebec as a separate continent. Also, Red States viz-a-viz Blue States. China vs. Russia?
We all know how that ends up.[^]
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... the sub-continent of Texas...
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: ... the sub-continent of Texass...
FIFY
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: It concluded that the reason many people consider Europe and Asia to be different continents is due to cultural differences.
It's much older than that, Both "Asia" and "Europa" is old Greek and what the Greeks referred to as Asia is todays Anatolia.
Afrika is what the Romans called the land where the Carthagenes lived, which is todays Tunisia.
The meaning of the words have obviously changed since then.
The whole concept of continents is much newer than the names for them. Well, at least the ones mentioned above.
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Yup, the ancients couldn't study the planet from space and didn't know about tectonic plates.
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The theory of tectonic plates wasn't accepted until the 1960s. And even though he couldn't look at the Earth from space, Eratosthenes accurately calculated its circumference.
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Only by mistake:
Quote: It is remarkable that such accuracy was obtained in view of the fact that most of the "known"
facts and his observations were incorrect: (1) although it is true that the sun at noon is directly
overhead at the Tropic of Cancer on the day of the summer solstice, it was erroneously
concluded that Syene lay on the line. Actually, Syene is 37 miles to the north; (2) the true
distance between Alexandria and Syene is 453 miles and not 500; (3) Syene lies 3° 30' east of the
meridian of Alexandria; (4) the difference of latitude between Alexandria and Syene is 7° 5'
rather than 7° 12' as Eratosthenes had concluded.
From "Geodesy for the Layman"[^] pag. 6.
Some pople have genius even when they make mistakes.
Mircea
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Greg Utas wrote: The theory of tectonic plates wasn't accepted until the 1960s. That is a deceptive generality based on the most narrow possible definition of "accepted."
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Since I don't think politics could play a role, I will cite this[^]. The theory had been around for quite some time, certainly if you include its precursor of continental drift, but a theory usually doesn't gain acceptance until backed by some evidence.
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