08-18-2004, 09:37 AM | #61 |
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What's the matter with my smiling face? Have you got some sort of aesthetic firewall or something?
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08-18-2004, 10:35 AM | #62 | |
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08-18-2004, 12:31 PM | #63 |
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Yes, well, I'll see what I can do...
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08-18-2004, 01:40 PM | #64 |
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..most kind..
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08-18-2004, 05:54 PM | #65 | |
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Wasn't that the case with the Cold War; two land masses, from one could one nuke the other... or do I oversimplify again?
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08-18-2004, 06:00 PM | #67 | |
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08-18-2004, 06:12 PM | #68 | |
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*sigh* Ah - it's actually such a good thing you kids today don't have to grow up with an awareness of all that. When I was a kid, I was convinced it was GOING to happen - it was just a matter of when, and what would be the outcome. I mean... what weapons had ever been made that had not been used - and there was this constant stand-off for over forty years! I think growing up in the Cold War, it was just always a possibility that it could happen any time... BOOM - the Big One! Of course, we have lots of terrorism and all that now... but that's on a smaller scale... and doesn't quite generate the overall tension...
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08-18-2004, 09:00 PM | #69 |
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And therefore "the Federation of Planets" is a long, long way off.
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08-20-2004, 12:30 PM | #70 | |
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Spock, here are the pics. A bit grey, but it's a crap camera and the weather was, well, grey... Standing on the edge of North America, looking north-east over the Eurasian plate. The cleft on the left hand side of the picture is the boundary between the plates; North America is on the left, Eurasia is on the right. Sorry about the handrail, but I guess they have to keep the Americans in somehow For good measure, here's Strokkur about one nanosecond before blurting superheated steam 30m into the air. I had to include that one because I was so chuffed that I managed to capture the moment and it was totally . There's also a nice aerial shot on this site, though they'd got east and west the wrong way round when I looked. The guy said he'd fix it (isn't the internet marvellous ) Last edited by The Gaffer : 08-20-2004 at 12:38 PM. |
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08-20-2004, 12:42 PM | #71 |
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Thanks very, very much for those photos. I've saved them into my hard drive as it will be awhile before I manage to get back to my roots and had lost my original photos. Most kind.
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08-21-2004, 08:12 AM | #72 |
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Wow!! Amazing photos. You are standing on the ocean floor when you are in Iceland. How fabulous. I am green with envy!! (I can't find a green envious smiley so this one will ahve to do!! )
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08-22-2004, 11:22 PM | #73 |
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This was probably already mentioned, but sometimes Europe and Asia are Eurasia.
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08-23-2004, 07:12 AM | #74 |
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..duh, true.....
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Yeah, the "althing", the first democracy, and it wooped the western democracies by about 700 years. Just thought I'd mention it.
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01-30-2005, 06:15 PM | #77 |
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didn't know about this y'ere thread!
how many continents? africa asia europe antarctica oceania n america c america s america that gives me 8 |
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That's sort of like the U.S. schools teach, except
-Oceania is just called Australia -C. America is split between N & S (Mexico = N, other stuff = S) did you read the rest of the thread? It's quite interesting at some points. |
01-30-2005, 06:22 PM | #79 |
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oh, over here we teach mexico in N america, all rest and caribbean is C america
australia as continent, or australasia ceased to be used about 10 years ago, as all the pacific islands were always left out of teaching for some reason, i think it has something to do with the way we used to rule the world!! |
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8!? Here we have:
africa asia europe antarctica oceania N America S America And some counts all of America as one...
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