Another Map Thread

Colorado right near the top. Got my vaccine nice and early, mostly because the hospital I used to work at thinks I'm still an employee, but that's another thread.
 
I was thinking about that the other day, if I'd ever see a border change or a 51st state in my lifetime.

Thing is that politicians, instead of thinking of the greater good, will instead always block these moves because one party will lose votes or representation.

Or because the Founding Fathers didn't want want Washington DC to be a state.
The Fathers didn't anticipate West Virginia splitting from Virginia either, but that happened. If your best argument in 2021 is the Fathers, move on...

/soapbox
 
Aaron said:
I was thinking about that the other day, if I'd ever see a border change or a 51st state in my lifetime.

Thing is that politicians, instead of thinking of the greater good, will instead always block these moves because one party will lose votes or representation.

Or because the Founding Fathers didn't want want Washington DC to be a state.
The Fathers didn't anticipate West Virginia splitting from Virginia either, but that happened. If your best argument in 2021 is the Fathers, move on...

/soapbox
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West Virginia was created as a move in the Civil War.

I just have one question, why would anyone want to be a part of Idaho? You really must love potatoes.
 
IdRatherBeSkiing said:
West Virginia was created as a move in the Civil War.

I just have one question, why would anyone want to be a part of Idaho? You really must love potatoes.
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Politics. Oregon is represented by liberals while Idaho is more conservative. They don’t like that.
 
www.visualcapitalist.com

2,000 Years of Economic History in One Chart

This chart compares the economies of major powers from 1AD all the way until today, showing the impact of the Industrial Revolution and re-emergence of Asia.
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There's a thread for that - not sure if we have a thread for charts. As the author says, beware that the data points are not even close to being equal, but I still found this interesting.
 
Micro-climates are pretty interesting. Well, as interesting as those things can get.

You can find temperature shifts around buildings caused by the placement of other neighboring buildings, trees, water, pavement, and other things. They can shift temperatures noticeably. Shade, breezes, stagnant air, evaporative cooling, reflected and radiant heat.

We had to do some projects about it in school to learn how to place buildings on a site. We had to pick a few sites around campus and take weather measuring equipment around take readings a couple of times a day. Sooooo nerdy...... We made the band geeks look cool.
 
Once again, I call bullshit on these maps/charts. It just makes no sense. Why would the words "which" and "every" be the most misspelled words in so many states? Why would so many people in Florida use the word pharaoh? And why would some states misspell quarantine (presumably an autocorrect error) but not others?
 
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