Thread worthy weird geography facts

Discussion in 'The Thunderdome' started by A-Smith, Dec 9, 2021.

  1. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    The Ontario Peninsula is teabagging America, resting on top of Ohio. Straight line, it is closer to the Canadian side of Lake Erie from Bristol than a straight line to Memphis from Bristol.
     
  2. A-Smith

    A-Smith Chieftain

  3. A-Smith

    A-Smith Chieftain

    Looks like Bristol is also closer to Florida than it is to Memphis.
     
  4. IP

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  5. HCKevinSteele

    HCKevinSteele Well-Known Member

    Oops, I’d read it as distance from Bristol to Canada < Distance from Memphis to Canada
     
  6. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    Also, you are measuring to land, not to Canadian border.
     
  7. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    Also, another way to conceptualize space/distance is how long it takes to get there rather than distance. And in that sense, it is quicker to get to Memphis. This is another source of skewing our perceptions of actual distance.
     
  8. A-Smith

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  9. A-Smith

    A-Smith Chieftain

    OK apparently this is something that every Tennessee school child learns, and I am the weird one for only recently learning it.
     
  10. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    No, I am saying that using a flat map to address the question doesn't work. Even though it showed the right answer, it is not an accurate way of addressing the question. The distances are long and the difference is close.
     
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  11. 10SEvols

    10SEvols Member

    Los Angeles is East of Reno.
     
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  12. A-Smith

    A-Smith Chieftain

    Yeah, ok. My guess is that that would only push things more in favor of the Canada distance.
     
  13. JohnnyQuickkick

    JohnnyQuickkick Calcio correspondent

    Brentwood is closer to Hell than Townsend
     
  14. HCKevinSteele

    HCKevinSteele Well-Known Member

    legit lol thank you
     
  15. CardinalVol

    CardinalVol Uncultured, non-diverse mod

    Working class Brentwood or Rich folk Brentwood?
     
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  16. A-Smith

    A-Smith Chieftain

    Yeah I think it's been pretty well established that the all the new money in Brentwood has driven the entire population into all manner of depravity. We've even got the tweet receipts.
     
  17. 10SEvols

    10SEvols Member

    Alaska is both the most Eastern and Western State due to the Aleutian Islands and the Eastern and Western hemisphere.
     
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  18. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    This is technically correct. Which is the best kind of correct.
     
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  19. Unimane

    Unimane Kill "The Caucasian"

    Africa is the only continent in all four hemispheres and Kiribati the only country in all four, as well.
     
  20. Joseph Brant

    Joseph Brant Airbrush Aficionado

    I assume from one of the point neighborhoods you'd run into long island somewhere, or one of the Massachusetts islands.

    Depends how many techicalities we're going for.
     

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