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Title: I can see my house!
Post by: Shrike on August 17, 2002, 02:54:43 pm
Look!  My city!

(http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/Images/STS028/lores/STS028-072-044.JPG)

Or for a better view.....A 9 meg version (http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/Images/STS028/hires/STS028-072-044.JPG)

Can you see your house from here?

http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/categories.html
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Post by: Blue Lion on August 17, 2002, 03:08:50 pm
Boom

(http://icestar.hypermart.net/lonewolf/STS090-712-043.jpg)
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Post by: Mr. Vega on August 17, 2002, 03:18:04 pm
http://www.globexplorer.com/cfviewer/start.cfm

Zooms in all the way to your houses.
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Post by: Shrike on August 17, 2002, 03:29:39 pm
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Originally posted by Mr. Vega
http://www.globexplorer.com/cfviewer/start.cfm

Zooms in all the way to your houses.
I found where my house should be, but theres logos all over the damn image, and they took the photo at the wrong time of day so my side of the street is covered in shadows - can't see a damn thing.

Pretty neat tho.
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Post by: Ryx on August 17, 2002, 03:30:42 pm
You can take a pretty close look at my city here:

http://hotel.infovisaren.nu/projekt/trollhattan/kartval.asp?prodnr=1
I hope the link works. Just zoom in where it says "Trollhättans tätort"

Not exactly Satelite picture, though.

Edit: I can see my house with this map. :ha:
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Post by: Thorn on August 17, 2002, 04:29:45 pm
(http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/Images/STS068/lores/STS068-236-092.JPG)
8 Years out of date.. ehh. what can ya do?
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada October 1994 The effects of the continental ice sheet that covered the northeastern part of North America about 15 000 years ago is evident in the physical landscape surrounding the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The many lakes are the result of glacial scouring as the ice sheets advanced and then retreated, leaving low, water-filled areas. Most of the rural areas of the glaciated landscape are now covered by northern coniferous forests. The city of Halifax is located along the south side of Halifax Harbour. The metropolitan area including Dartmouth (the city along the northern side of Halifax Harbour), with a population of approximately 320 000, is the largest Canadian commercial center with direct access to the Atlantic Ocean. The natural harbor affords ideal drydocks, dockyards, and transshipping facilities for both imports and exports. The numerous thin, white lines radiating from the metropolitan area are highways, railroads, and power line rights-of-way extending across the forested hinterland. The runways of two major airports are visible—the T-shaped runways of Halifax International Airport approximately 15 miles (25 kilometers) north of the urban area and the runways of the Shearwater CFB (military base) east of Dartsmouth. During World War II, many ship convoys were assembled in Halifax Harbour for the transatlantic crossing. St. Margaret Bay is the large bay southwest of the Halifax area.
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Post by: Sandwich on August 17, 2002, 04:35:13 pm
Bah - if you have a GPU, check out http://www.earthviewer.com/ - it rulez. :nod:
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Post by: Shrike on August 17, 2002, 04:48:36 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich
Bah - if you have a GPU, check out http://www.earthviewer.com/ - it rulez. :nod:
You mean a good GPU..... lol
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Post by: Sandwich on August 17, 2002, 05:08:38 pm
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Originally posted by Shrike
You mean a good GPU..... lol


No, I mean a GPU, period. The term was coined for the GeForce 256 graphics chip. TNT2's don't qualify. :D
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Post by: Darkage on August 17, 2002, 06:01:20 pm
My home and work

(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/inferno/darkage/map.jpg)


(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/inferno/darkage/map2.jpg)


(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/inferno/darkage/raadhuis.jpg)


This is our council home.


1 min from my home (http://www.haagsetrams.com/lijn7/dbsgl3.htm)

This tram i always took to school.
Or when i go to the beach.
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Post by: beatspete on August 17, 2002, 06:01:29 pm
Hmm, none of those sites are particularly great... the nearest good image i could get was about 180 miles away.
I have a nice satalite photo of half of scotland on my wall, you can see my village easilly, and even make out my street.... I'll try and take a photo.
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Post by: Sandwich on August 17, 2002, 06:12:28 pm
So... that's what CornFlake-tropolis looks like, eh? :wink:
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Post by: Darkage on August 17, 2002, 06:17:50 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich
So... that's what CornFlake-tropolis looks like, eh? :wink:



Erm.....yes:nervous:

I use the Tram to transport my cornflakes:p
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Post by: Bobboau on August 17, 2002, 07:10:53 pm
thar we be
my property in the red square
(http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/home.jpg)
I don't think it would be a very good idea to post such precise explanations of you're street adress, you never know who will be reading this
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Post by: Grey Wolf on August 17, 2002, 07:24:14 pm
Here's mine:
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/gtdwolf/pics/gex.jpg)
That's mine at the end of the street.
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Post by: penguin on August 18, 2002, 12:14:11 am
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
Boom

(http://icestar.hypermart.net/lonewolf/STS090-712-043.jpg)
Hey, we're on the same map, BL... I'm near the head of the Severn River, which is barely poking in the bottom edge of the image.  And Locust Point (where I work) is also visible, near the center of the screen.

At this scale, I can't find my house, though :D   In fact, the only man-made thing immediately visible is the Key bridge...
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Post by: CP5670 on August 18, 2002, 04:14:24 am
I am on that Maryland map as well. :D I was able to zoom in enough to very vaguely make out my house but the watermarks do not allow you to see much.
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Post by: aldo_14 on August 18, 2002, 12:04:22 pm
Bah...the only place with my town name I could find is on a completely different continent. :mad: :doubt: :p
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Post by: RandomTiger on August 18, 2002, 12:16:30 pm
You guys better not make any enemys on these boards because now, THEY KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: Redfang on August 18, 2002, 01:40:03 pm
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Originally posted by RandomTiger
You guys better not make any enemys on these boards because now, THEY KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!

 
One should hate another pretty much before he is going to travel a long distance (in most cases) to go and do something bad... and that's pretty hard to understand from those where someone actually lives. :)
 
And no-one knows where I live, except that I live in Finland... happy searching. :D
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Post by: Unknown Target on August 18, 2002, 01:58:31 pm
*Bad-um, psshh!*
Here I am:

(http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/Images/STS054/lores/STS054-074-049.JPG)
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Post by: Borealis on August 18, 2002, 07:57:41 pm
[color=sky blue]
I live very near the southern end of that bridge that divides Lake Ponchartrain.  On the image, the New Orleans French Quarter (you know where they make all those stupid 'Girls Gone Wild' videos?) is about two inches down and to the right (of that end of the bridge)on the bank of the Mississippi River.[/color]


(http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/Images/STS034/lores/STS034-074-001.JPG)
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Post by: Stealth on August 18, 2002, 08:30:10 pm
where i live:

(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/hostedpictures/shaolinnl0183.jpg)

:D
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Post by: Martinus on August 18, 2002, 09:20:02 pm
Satellite maps of Ireland seem to be a rarity so here's a drawn map instead, forgive the image size it's the only good one I could find. :o

(http://www.nidex.com/images/MAP1.jpg)

If you look right below the lake in the middle of my humble island you'll notice a town called Lurgan. If you were to drop a nuke there you would be 99.999% sure of getting me. (Along with most of the rest of Ireland and the UK) :D
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Post by: Dr.Zer0 on August 18, 2002, 11:09:28 pm
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Originally posted by penguin
Hey, we're on the same map, BL... I'm near the head of the Severn River, which is barely poking in the bottom edge of the image.  And Locust Point (where I work) is also visible, near the center of the screen.

At this scale, I can't find my house, though :D   In fact, the only man-made thing immediately visible is the Key bridge...


its a reunion for all of us Marylanders :)
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Post by: Blue Lion on August 18, 2002, 11:25:39 pm
WHERE do you live?
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Post by: Dr.Zer0 on August 19, 2002, 01:46:20 am
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
WHERE do you live?


Columbia, I got BWi right behind my back :wink:
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Post by: Kamikaze on August 19, 2002, 02:28:58 am
The people that do this don't seem to like Oregon, I can't find my area ;)

But anyway, I live in Oregon where the air is clean! w00t!
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Post by: beatspete on August 19, 2002, 05:38:01 am
Here's a photo of a satalite image on my wall...  the red crosshair being me.

http://uk.msnusers.com/PetesStorageBin/Documents/whereilive.jpg


..hope that works.
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Post by: Dr.Zer0 on August 19, 2002, 06:54:41 am
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Originally posted by Kamikaze
The people that do this don't seem to like Oregon, I can't find my area ;)

But anyway, I live in Oregon where the air is clean! w00t!


and in a new world far south is LA, were the air is grey
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Post by: Redfang on August 19, 2002, 07:01:19 am
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Originally posted by beatspete
Here's a photo of a satalite image on my wall...  the red crosshair being me.

http://uk.msnusers.com/PetesStorageBin/Documents/whereilive.jpg


..hope that works.

 
:eek2: Needs a passport.
 
*gasp* :shaking:
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Post by: Blue Lion on August 19, 2002, 07:53:49 am
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Originally posted by Dr.Zer0


Columbia, I got BWi right behind my back :wink:



Well I'll be goddamned, I work in Columbia :p
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Post by: Vortex on August 19, 2002, 08:05:28 am
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Originally posted by Blue Lion



Well I'll be goddamned, I work in Columbia :p


Drug lord? ;)
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Post by: Blue Lion on August 19, 2002, 08:07:42 am
:thepimp:
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Post by: Stealth on August 19, 2002, 10:48:11 am
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
:the pimp: :thepimp:


lol :0
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Post by: beatspete on August 19, 2002, 03:46:10 pm
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Originally posted by Redfang

 
:eek2: Needs a passport.
 
*gasp* :shaking:



in that case i give up.
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Post by: Galemp on August 19, 2002, 09:40:33 pm
I don't have a home.... :( I live in a shack...
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Post by: Unknown Target on August 20, 2002, 07:02:32 am
But we knew that :p
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Post by: Styxx on August 20, 2002, 08:33:14 am
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Originally posted by Vortex
Drug lord? ;)


You must be confusing it with Colombia or something. :D
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Post by: Unknown Target on August 20, 2002, 09:21:50 am
C'mon, please tell me I'm not the ONLY one living on an island? (Australia doesn't count!  :D)
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Post by: Sandwich on August 20, 2002, 10:30:16 am
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Originally posted by Unkown Target
C'mon, please tell me I'm not the ONLY one living on an island? (Australia doesn't count!  :D)


"...this Island Earth..." :D
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Post by: Zeronet on August 20, 2002, 10:32:57 am
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Originally posted by Unkown Target
C'mon, please tell me I'm not the ONLY one living on an island? (Australia doesn't count!  :D)


:rolleyes:
Points to the Islands known as the British Isles and points to the fact quite a lot of members on this board live there, including the poster of this post.
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Post by: Blue Lion on August 20, 2002, 10:49:55 am
I live on the American continents, that's an island
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Post by: Sandwich on August 20, 2002, 10:54:46 am
I get the feeling UT was talking about people who live on an island that is not also a seperate country.
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Post by: Blue Lion on August 20, 2002, 11:39:51 am
Well maybe he needs to be more specific :p
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Post by: Thorn on August 20, 2002, 12:35:03 pm
I lived on Vancouver Island for a short period in my life....
And Nova Scotia is almost an island...
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Post by: Zeronet on August 20, 2002, 01:10:41 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich
I get the feeling UT was talking about people who live on an island that is not also a seperate country.


UK is one country really...
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Post by: RandomTiger on August 20, 2002, 01:16:49 pm
I'll get that one go.
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Post by: Blue Lion on August 20, 2002, 03:20:44 pm
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Originally posted by RandomTiger
I'll get that one go.



:wtf:
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Post by: CP5670 on August 20, 2002, 04:12:25 pm
Is it possible to not live on an island? Would there be no islands only if there is no water? :D
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Post by: beatspete on August 20, 2002, 04:35:29 pm
Easiest way to think of an island is that it is surrounded by water, and relativley minor to another larger land mass.  For example, britain is and island compared to the European continent... but not compaired to say, the isle of Mann (island in the irish sea).
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Post by: aldo_14 on August 20, 2002, 05:14:13 pm
The Ilse of Man is really more of a colony, surely.  As in 'leper'.
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Post by: Sandwich on August 20, 2002, 06:29:09 pm
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Originally posted by CP5670
Is it possible to not live on an island? Would there be no islands only if there is no water? :D


No - there could be a world covereed in land, with "islands" of water (aka lakes) alll over the place. As long as those lakes didn't connect in such a way as to cut off any part of land from any other part of land, you could have plenty of water with no islands. :D
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Post by: Dr.Zer0 on August 20, 2002, 10:31:25 pm
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Originally posted by Vortex


Drug lord? ;)


you must be thinking of the country columbia :p
columbua southamerica, home of %75 of all the crack :nervous: :shaking:
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Post by: Thorn on August 20, 2002, 10:43:59 pm
I'm moving to British Columbia :nervous:
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Post by: Unknown Target on August 21, 2002, 08:27:19 am
I thought you were already a drug lord, Thorn :p
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Post by: Styxx on August 21, 2002, 10:18:23 am
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Originally posted by Dr.Zer0
you must be thinking of the country columbia :p
columbua southamerica, home of %75 of all the crack :nervous: :shaking:


As I already posted, it's ColOmbia, not Columbia. :p
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Post by: CP5670 on August 21, 2002, 10:23:22 am
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No - there could be a world covereed in land, with "islands" of water (aka lakes) alll over the place. As long as those lakes didn't connect in such a way as to cut off any part of land from any other part of land, you could have plenty of water with no islands. :D


I suppose you are right there, but then suppose that there is a planet with a thin (2mm wide) strip of land running around the circumference of the planet at the equator, and the rest is all water, the water bodies would be lakes, right? :D (not sure of the exact definition  of "island," so correct me if I am wrong)

In other words, if an island both encloses water and is enclosed by water in some way, it is no longer an island. :D
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Post by: Levyathan on August 21, 2002, 10:54:48 am
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Originally posted by CP5670
(not sure of the exact definition  of "island," so correct me if I am wrong)


An island is defined as a (small) piece of land surrounded by water in all directions. So that thing probably wouldn't count as an island (there are directions which it is surrounded by nothing, or by itself).
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Post by: CP5670 on August 21, 2002, 11:00:35 am
Technically it is surrounded by water, though. Suppose this thin circular strip of land is moved up so that the center of the circle is no longer at the planet's core but instead close to one of the poles and thus also has a much smaller circumference. (imagine having a large pool of water in the middle of Antarctica that leaves a thin ring of land remaining at the edges) It is now much more apparent that the landmass is indeed surrounded by water, but none of the island's properties have been fundamentally changed except of size. ;) :D
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Post by: Levyathan on August 21, 2002, 11:06:17 am
It depends on how you view it. If you see the planet as a flat surface as opposed to a globe (as in a map), it won't be surrounded by water. It will divide two portions of water.
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Post by: CP5670 on August 21, 2002, 11:12:43 am
Sure, but the real world is a sphere rather than a 2D polygon, so it would make more sense to view it as a riemannian space. ;)

I guess there is no really precise definition of "island" then; interesting...
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Post by: Levyathan on August 21, 2002, 11:20:56 am
But there is. It's just that it considers mapping conventions as ruling factors to determine wheter something is an island or not, I guess. You'll rather be looking at a map to say "that's an island", not flying over them.
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Post by: Darkage on August 21, 2002, 01:17:49 pm
Shutup CP, go back to your math:p
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Post by: Thorn on August 21, 2002, 01:34:45 pm
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Originally posted by Unkown Target
I thought you were already a drug lord, Thorn :p


I am not...
pssst... Styxx.... I got some stuff here that makes your SpaceCrack look like candy....
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Post by: Galemp on August 21, 2002, 03:31:03 pm
*reads about geographical disputes, wonders about Halo*
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Post by: Kellan on August 21, 2002, 04:24:25 pm
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Originally posted by Styxx


As I already posted, it's ColOmbia, not Columbia. :p


Stop trying.

And what's that dancing umbrella woman thing with the hockey-stick legs under your name now? The first time I saw it I thought I was hallucinating, because I'd been drinking too much.
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Post by: Levyathan on August 21, 2002, 04:37:37 pm
It's probably the Multi Man!
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Post by: Kellan on August 21, 2002, 04:38:21 pm
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Originally posted by Levyathan
It's probably the Multi Man!


It sucks.
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Post by: Sandwich on August 21, 2002, 05:39:42 pm
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Originally posted by CP5670


I suppose you are right there, but then suppose that there is a planet with a thin (2mm wide) strip of land running around the circumference of the planet at the equator, and the rest is all water, the water bodies would be lakes, right? :D (not sure of the exact definition  of "island," so correct me if I am wrong)

In other words, if an island both encloses water and is enclosed by water in some way, it is no longer an island. :D


Well, I had thought of that scenario while typing up my previous argument, and I disregarded it as, um.. somewhere I didn't want to go. :p

The definition of an island definetly has something to do with it's size relative to it's planet (?). And because of that relativity, there is no absolute definition of "This is an island, that isn't."

So to summarize this discussion, screw islands. Who cares. I live here, you live there, and that's that. Now pass the flamethrower; mine seems to be broken. :doubt:
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Post by: Styxx on August 22, 2002, 09:23:38 am
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Originally posted by Kellan
It sucks.


If you never watched The Impossibles™, you didn't have a childhood. :p
and it's not a wise thing to say that an admin's avatar sucks...
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Post by: Dr.Zer0 on August 22, 2002, 12:46:18 pm
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Originally posted by Styxx


If you never watched The Impossibles™, you didn't have a childhood. :p
and it's not a wise thing to say that an admin's avatar sucks...


beware of topic derailment
I watched it againsed my will, but I still think Space Ghost was the best :p
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Post by: Styxx on August 22, 2002, 12:52:08 pm
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Originally posted by Dr.Zer0
beware of topic derailment
I watched it againsed my will, but I still think Space Ghost was the best :p


Bah, The Impossibles was the best. :D
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Post by: Kellan on August 22, 2002, 04:45:53 pm
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Originally posted by Styxx


If you never watched The Impossibles™, you didn't have a childhood. :p
and it's not a wise thing to say that an admin's avatar sucks...


We never had it in the Third World country that I inhabit.
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Post by: Cannikin on August 23, 2002, 08:23:07 am
Eh, I live on an island. Only 390km (243 mi) at longest ends and 140km (87.5 mi) at the widest east-west point.
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Post by: Reaper on August 23, 2002, 10:05:01 am
Mine home is here :)
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/swarm/infested_larva/home.jpg)
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Post by: Kellan on August 23, 2002, 04:29:47 pm
Cool, Ljubljana. The place with the weirdest name in Europe. :D
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Post by: Sandwich on August 23, 2002, 07:31:08 pm
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Originally posted by Kellan
Cool, Ljubljana. The place with the weirdest name in Europe. :D


It's not a "place" - you can plainly see that it's a "Karta"! :p
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Post by: Reaper on August 24, 2002, 07:15:15 am
Hey... don't make fun of our language... Karta means map ok... and Ljubljana is a place with wierdest name :) :) :)  I agree with everyone... But it reads difrant than u all think...
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Post by: Carl on August 24, 2002, 07:30:57 am
www.mapquest.com
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Post by: Redfang on August 24, 2002, 07:32:19 am
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Originally posted by Infested_Larva
Hey... don't make fun of our language... Karta means map ok... and Ljubljana is a place with wierdest name :) :) :)  I agree with everyone... But it reads difrant than u all think...

 
Hehe, in finnish it's kartta, almost like karta. Do you live in Estonia, as that language is quite a bit like finnish? :)
 
Hmm, weird name, I don't even know where that place is. :)
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Post by: Reaper on August 24, 2002, 08:06:29 am
It's capital city of Slovenia... and it's in slovenian language...
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Post by: penguin on August 24, 2002, 09:23:24 am
In Italian and Spanish it's carta; Russian and most slavic languages (like Slovenian) use karta as well.  The French use plan just to be different ;)  The Latin (or probably Greek) root word gives us "cartography," etc. in English.

I suppose it must be a loan-word in Finnish, since Finnish is not Indo-European, and the similarity is too close to be coincidental...
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Post by: Corsair on August 25, 2002, 10:13:29 am
my in a nice little suburban area called Connecticut (URL goes here but it doesn't work...:mad: )
I live in a gingerbread house! ;)