Altered Maps XIV: Cartographical Consistency

[Arwon]

wasn't it the american panama canal zone?

Natural born citizens is generally interpreted to mean born with the right to American citizenship. If you're born to American parents while traveling or living overseas it is generally held that you still qualify. See Ted Cruz's Canadian birth but with American citizenship for example.

The actual reason McCain could have been controversial is that he was not actually *born* with the right to American citizenship. That was conferred a few years later when Congress changed the laws on citizenship for people born to Americans in the canal zone. But in the end his entitlement to citizenship is by birth so it likely wouldn't have been an issue.

 

[warpus]

Why would have Obama's birth in Mordor been such a huge deal then? Didn't he at the time have at least one American parent? Or do they both need to be American or something and one of his parents didn't have American citizenship yet when he was born?

 

[Arwon]

I don't think it was a big deal. Firstly he was born in Hawaii but even if he had been born abroad, his mother was American. Chester Arthur hag only one American parent and he was fine.

That whole thing was more about Obama being the Other than any actual legal argument. Ted Cruz can run, after all.

 

[Domen]

The map of Doggerland:

https://friedfoo.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/doggerland2.jpg

Spoiler :

 

[warpus]

I don't think it was a big deal. Firstly he was born in Hawaii but even if he had been born abroad, his mother was American. Chester Arthur hag only one American parent and he was fine.

That whole thing was more about Obama being the Other than any actual legal argument. Ted Cruz can run, after all.

Yeah, I know that he was born in Hawaii, but conservatives in the U.S. have made a huge stink and some continue to make a big stink about him possibly being born in Kenya. I was under the impression that this then implied that he wouldn't be eligible to run for president, according to them, whether Obama's parents were American or not. But maybe I just don't understand the requirements needed for presidentship. I did always suspect that these "He was born in Kenya" calls were veiled racism and not much else. But then what's the point of wanting to investigate where "he was really born", if he would have been eligible to be president either way?

 

[madviking]

 

[Kyriakos]

^Not many seem to care about Celebes.

 

[Borachio]

Is it me? Or does that graphic make no sense?

What does the red line indicate? (Presumably the boundary of claimed Indonesian waters, I guess.)

What do the grey "boats" indicate and why are some of them inland?

What are the purple boats? And why are there so few red ones?

 

[Domen]

Doggerland was a very good fishing and hunting territory - it is said that the area was relatively densely inhabited by people during the period when it existed. Later it unfortunately drowned. Perhaps the myth of Atlantis originated from oral tradition dating back to the end of the last Ice Age.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Atlantis drowned too?

 

[Domen]

There were territories which drowned, some quite rapidly (e.g. what is now the Black Sea used to be dry land, which drowned after sea level in the Mediterranean Sea raised). Perhaps the myth of Atlantis originates from oral tradition passed from generation to generation since the end of the last Ice Age.

This also refers to stories about the Great Flood.

^Atlantis drowned too?

Yeah, as far as I know it did, didn't it ???

 

[Kyriakos]

When those lands drowned, were the people living in them submerged?

 

[gay_Aleks]

Atlanteans: the first deep ocean explorers?

 

[Domen]

When those lands drowned, were the people living in them submerged?

Rather not - because the drowning process was so slow that they could escape.

Even in case of the Black Sea it took several years (or at least months) until the whole area drowned.

So there had to be at least some survivors. Well - at least Noe with his family.

 

[Kyriakos]

There were territories which drowned, some quite rapidly (e.g. what is now the Black Sea used to be dry land, which drowned after sea level in the Mediterranean Sea raised). Perhaps the myth of Atlantis originates from oral tradition passed from generation to generation since the end of the last Ice Age.

This also refers to stories about the Great Flood.



Yeah, as far as I know it did, didn't it ???

Just wondering if 'drowned' can be used for something non-living as an organism, as in an entire land.
Dictionaries online seem to allow only a flood/drench secondary meaning, but that doesn't mean chronic submergence of land. Floods are periodical events

 

[Domen]

Noah, I mean.

Dictionaries online seem to allow only a flood/drench secondary meaning, but that doesn't mean chronic submergence of land. Floods are periodical events

An interesting question. Indeed when land is 'flooded', it usually denotes a temporary condition.

 

[Flying Pig]

Just wondering if 'drowned' can be used for something non-living as an organism, as in an entire land.
Dictionaries online seem to allow only a flood/drench secondary meaning, but that doesn't mean chronic submergence of land. Floods are periodical events

I think you could use it slightly poetically - for example 'most of Kent was drowned in the flood' - but it sounds a bit odd.

 

[Arakhor]

Floods are periodical events

It would be more common to say that they are periodic events. Periodicals are usually another name for a very regular publication.

 

[warpus]

The top 10 busiest air passenger routes in Europe. (EU + Norway + Iceland + Switzerland)

It surprised me quite a bit to see internal Norwegian air routes in there, but I guess it makes sense, with all the mountains in the way and all.. and how cheap flying in Europe seems to be. sort of makes sense - there's not that many people in Norway compared to other countries, so I would have expected to see a route from London England for example, or something similar, nor 2 Norwegian routes.

 

[Civ'ed]

why bother to include iceland in the stats if iceland isn't going to be on the map