Official Civ4 S&T Off-Topic Thread

[Royal Tenenbaum]

Do you have specific train segments only to women? Things got so dire around here they had to put special segments for women only.

Japan has woman specific only sections, yes.

 

[Manuss]

And I thought we had the worst trains.

 

[mrrandomplayer]

So not only am I running for class secretary, I also made callbacks for an acapella group with the caveat of "less opera sound, more pop", essentially meaning I need to learn an entirely new style in a little over a day. The next two days are going to be hell...

 

[Bair_the_Normal]

Women-only cars in Japan are extant entirely to combat lewd contact, which is particularly prevalent on the super-crowded commuter trains. For a variety of reasons it's seen as the most effective way to combat groping.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

Yeah I understand the necessity, it just sounds sexist.

 

[Royal Tenenbaum]

It's antisexist.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

Could someone help me out possibly? I'm desperately trying to remember a quote. An American diplomat said it to either the Chilean or Peruvian president or diplomat in the early cold war era. It essentially said "The ball of history has been passed from Moscow to Berlin to Paris to London to Washington DC to Tokyo and now rests in Beijing. It has never gone below the equator." I forget what the actual quote was though. Any help AT ALL would be incredible!

 

[Spirictum]

If the Brazilian Empire had stood, we would have a chance.

Now we cheer for Australia! Go Australia! Take the Ball of History to the southern hemisphere!

BTW, it isn't hard is it? Most of the land (let's exclude antarctica please) is in the northern hemisphere anyway. Even Brazil has a chunck in the northern hemisphere

 

[Royal Tenenbaum]

One of my friends mentioned that people on the equator should live longer since they rotate more. I said, good point! The societies that have lived longest have been in Japan and Mediterannean islands. "Are those near the equator?" Hah. Not even close.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

Well they rotate the same amount as people in Canada are on the same rotational speed as Peruvians. People on the equator just rotate faster because thy have a farther distance but the same amount of time. Probably

 

[Niccolo Edwards]

The map projections that we use were all invented by Europeans and Americans and so they portray the Northern hemisphere as being bigger (the Equator runs across Northern Africa). However most of the land in the southern hemisphere is inaccessible (tiny islands or little to none infrastructure), tied up in war/civil war, or useless for agriculture *Cough desert in North Africa Cough, buried under jungle or unclaimed. Basically the Southern Hemisphere is a 'hard to get things done' place.

 

[TheNoob]

I'd assume their longevity goes with healthier diets.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

It also doesn't help that Spain and Portugal was big on exploitation and direct rule while Britain let America do mostly its own thing.

 

[TheNoob]

You could say that is a pro or a con depending on your perspective

 

[Spirictum]

Actually most of the land (in area) is in the southern hemisphere. The map projections that we use were all invented by Europeans and Americans and so they portray the Northern hemisphere as being bigger (the Equator runs across Northern Africa). However most of the land in the southern hemisphere is inaccessible (tiny islands or little to none infrastructure), tied up in war/civil war, or useless for agriculture *Cough desert in North Africa Cough, buried under jungle or unclaimed. Basically the Southern Hemisphere is a 'hard to get things done' place.

There is one problem here though. Peter's projection truly depicts South America and Africa in a better proportion to all other land, but still 2/3 of Africa is on the northern hemisphere, and 1/10 of South America too. So it isn't possible that the northern hemisphere doesn't have more land.

This is Peter's projection, and it seems that even with Antarctica the southern hemisphere loses.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

Yeah, the Northern Hemisphere has twice as much land as the Southern Hemisphere.

 

[Niccolo Edwards]

The Peter's projection distorts the world horizontally just as the Mercator projection distorts it vertically. But you are right; I have no idea what I was thinking when I wrote that.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

The Peters projection actually does provide a, proportionally, more accurate map. I was so disoriented by it too, but it is more accurate, kind of. The best is a computer generated globe really.

 

[TheNoob]

Only two days of school left for me

 

[mrrandomplayer]

Only two days of school left for me

Lucky, 16 for me.