Geography US vs Europe

[The Gaffer]

What's the matter with my smiling face? Have you got some sort of aesthetic firewall or something?

[Spock]

Originally Posted by The Gaffer

What's the matter with my smiling face? Have you got some sort of aesthetic firewall or something?

No, not that, I just wanted the geography for future reference and that way I'd not have to explain about who, when, where, etc. you were.

[The Gaffer]

Yes, well, I'll see what I can do...

[Spock]

..most kind..

[Janny]

Originally Posted by Valandil

If one lumps the Americas together, it seems like you'd have as much cause to consider Europe, Asia and Africa as all one continent. Then we could have a two continent system - and Australia and Antarctica join Greenland, etc as 'big islands'.

But at this point, the whole concept of "continents" pretty much loses its meaning... doesn't it?

Well yes and no, and I'm aware that it was a rhetorical tag question.

Wasn't that the case with the Cold War; two land masses, from one could one nuke the other... or do I oversimplify again?

[Valandil]

Originally Posted by Janny

Wasn't that the case with the Cold War; two land masses, from one could one nuke the other... or do I oversimplify again?

Well, from OUR perspective, there WERE actually certain portions of your landmass which we had hoped would remain relatively intact... certainly at least habitable!

[Janny]

Originally Posted by Valandil

Well, from OUR perspective, there WERE actually certain portions of your landmass which we had hoped would remain relatively intact... certainly at least habitable!

What do I care? I reckon both militaries were good enough to not hit a tiny island thousands of miles away from their actual mahoosively sized targets.

[Valandil]

Originally Posted by Janny

What do I care? I reckon both militaries were good enough to not hit a tiny island thousands of miles away from their actual mahoosively sized targets.

Oh - but there's the fallout, Nuclear Winter, radiation, etc.

*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...

[Spock]

And therefore "the Federation of Planets" is a long, long way off.

[The Gaffer]

Originally Posted by Valandil

*sigh* Ah - it's actually such a good thing you kids today don't have to grow up with an awareness of all that.

AMen to that.

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 )

[Spock]

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.

[Elanor the Fair]

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!! )

[trolls' bane]

This was probably already mentioned, but sometimes Europe and Asia are Eurasia.

[Spock]

..duh, true.....

[The Gaffer]

Originally Posted by Elanor the Fair

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!! )

Heh! If you like this kind of stuff, you MUST go to Iceland. It really feels like a land which is riven by huge natural forces. And what's more, see that grey footbridge in the middle distance, just to the left of centre of the picture? That's where the world's first parliament met. A viking used to stand there and speak the law aloud so that all could hear it.

[Fenir_LacDanan]

Originally Posted by The Gaffer

Heh! If you like this kind of stuff, you MUST go to Iceland. It really feels like a land which is riven by huge natural forces. And what's more, see that grey footbridge in the middle distance, just to the left of centre of the picture? That's where the world's first parliament met. A viking used to stand there and speak the law aloud so that all could hear it.

Yeah, the "althing", the first democracy, and it wooped the western democracies by about 700 years. Just thought I'd mention it.

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

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

[Mercutio]

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.

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

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!!

[Pytt]

8!? Here we have:
africa
asia
europe
antarctica
oceania
N America
S America

And some counts all of America as one...