Search results for query: *

  • Users: Nugax
  • Order by date

Forum search Google search

  1. Saint Lawrence River - question

    Rivers (with the odd unnavigable exception) don't actually make good international/natural borders for a dozen reasons. You're just conditioned by rivers being used as borders between subnational units and rivers disuse in modern transport networks :P.

  2. Argentina welcomes East and South Asian immigrations

    Its certainly true that the Japanese were by far the largest group (0.25 million to Brazil alone), the Cantonese sugar and shit workers in Peru during the 19th century were still pretty significant at 0.1 million, certainly far bigger than the Guyanese south asians. If Argentina had been open...

  3. More european megacities.

    You need to remember that some locations are going to be constrained prior to the 20th century by water supply and the logistics of getting food into a city not on the coast (or super huge river like Moscow). Rome is certainly one of those. I'd agree with Naples, or possible a Vienna/Budapest...

  4. Lack of spread of Potatoes

    Ireland would be far and away the smallest change from no potatoes in the Old World :p. Ireland might have a high proportion of its historical diet being from the spud but in absolute numbers the potato is far more important elsewhere: Deduct about 150-200 million europeans and a 100...

  5. Future earth Climate Help

    Actually no, there are various different models about what could happen due to assumptions about mantle convection physics. The one he's using is pretty common and is based on the idea that once the pacific narrows sufficiently the mantle pressure will build up under it and the thinner Atlantic...

  6. Future earth Climate Help

    Your ripples for mountain zones look far too much like those for the sea and its really trippy - mountains aren't normally depicted like that. Have a go at sketching out air and sea currents before deciding on climate zones, and look into atmospheric cells and what they mean about heat and...

  7. Map Thread XI

    I think that Mu is the wrong projection for the QBAM.

  8. AHC: Chinese population less then half a billion

    Have bacterial rice leaf blight both arise earlier (in the 1800s rather than 1950) and develop a variant that can handle long range airborne dispersal. You'll knock out 10-20% of each year's crop productivity and drastically reduce food surpluses. This will produce a cumulative effect...

  9. Map Thread XI

    This is much better than what I did :). Very neat.

  10. A Blank Map Thread

    Enough people have asked for this that I finally got round to cleaning and posting it. A SVG tracing of the NA watersheds map coasts and rivers:

  11. Map Thread XI

    Well googling 'ancient lake Dasht-e Kavir' would be a good start. There are a lot of salt marshes and pans there that may have been a larger body of water at certain times in the past. I find that map very dubious in extent though, and can't find any indication that such pluvial lakes were...

  12. Need help from a Map/Geographic User

    Use google image search: like so http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/photolib/maps/Map%20of%20Basin%20of%20the%20Volga%201906.jpg , then trace the map? Also if you're using rivers as borders, you should stop right away. Most rivers have political and economic organisations built around them...

  13. Map Thread XI

    Are redheads a different race than blonds? A few differing alleles like hair pigments or a fat distribution specification does not a distinct category make, especially when within group variance is greater than intergroup variance.

  14. Why do we have a seven day week?

    ...did you do any research before making this thread? Many cultures didn't have a 7 day week, instead having anything from 3 to 10 day weeks, but nearly everyone adopted it due to western dominance in the 19th and 20th century. The seven day week is a ancient near-eastern innovation that...

  15. AHC: All of Indonesia become densely populated?

    That's silly Flocc, we all know failure to generate high population densities and effective states is entirely due to laziness on the half of the indigenous peoples. :rolleyes:

  16. Look to the West: Thread III, Volume IV (Tottenham Nil)!

    Well a sufficently well designed system involving a mercury thermometer could convert a light signal to a mechanical change. The principle challenge would be the removal of thermal noise and a low bit rate due to the time the mercury takes to move. The problem of doing it with electronics, is...

  17. Look to the West: Thread III, Volume IV (Tottenham Nil)!

    Yes they did have sophisticated 'computers', ones that are literally impossible to build as the book described due to the limits of materials technology (and I mean modern materials technology, much less 19th century ones) :p. The use of optel might enable an alternate that's actually...

  18. Look to the West: Thread III, Volume IV (Tottenham Nil)!

    Well when people talked about the 'Eastern Seaboard' and the 'East', what they meant was that chain of cities. Why come up with a special name when a generic will serve just as well? After all the USA is the entire universe and there nothing outside that generic terms like 'the south' would get...

  19. Look to the West: Thread III, Volume IV (Tottenham Nil)!

    You forgot to account for Thandes unrelenting loathing of London ;).

  20. Look to the West: Thread III, Volume IV (Tottenham Nil)!

    I actually think the best way to show the ENA elections would be a infographic map like so http://vielmetti.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c4f1a53ef017c332fbd4d970b-600wi where the absolute shapes of the regions is not maintained but instead more human readable shapes come in instead (you'd use...
Top