NationStates Jolt Archive

I've seen this recently. Quite interesting. It was the first time I've seen all those statistics about the whole world piled up at one place. Check it out:

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/xx.html

The point of this thread? Discuss something you find interesting or discuss about future...

I found this interesting, well more amusing:

http://movie.aonservers.com/

Shouldn't Australia be listed in the list under 'coastline'?

I found this interesting, well more amusing:

http://movie.aonservers.com/

Cool.

I found this interesting, well more amusing:

http://movie.aonservers.com/

Cool.

I found this interesting, well more amusing:

http://movie.aonservers.com/

Yeah, good one.

Median age:
Definition Field Listing
total: 27.6 years
male: 27 years
female: 28.2 years (2006 est.)


...Wow...thats the average for the world, and the average for the West is like 75...that kinda surprised me, i knew it would be low but not that low...

from the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Uh-huh. Nobody ever even glided before the Wright brothers...

I found this interesting, well more amusing:

http://movie.aonservers.com/

thats good

Am I missing something blindingly obvious here? -

Natural gas - exports: 813.5 billion cu m (2004 est.)
Natural gas - imports: 819.3 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Is about 1% lost in transit?

Am I missing something blindingly obvious here? -

Natural gas - exports: 813.5 billion cu m (2004 est.)
Natural gas - imports: 819.3 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Is about 1% lost in transit?

even worse - gained

Cool.
I can't believe you managed to double-post 16 minutes apart! (big grin)

Median age:
Definition Field Listing
total: 27.6 years
male: 27 years
female: 28.2 years (2006 est.)


...Wow...thats the average for the world, and the average for the West is like 75...that kinda surprised me, i knew it would be low but not that low...

That's the average age of a random person in the world, not the median life expectancy.

Natural resources:

The rapid depletion of nonrenewable mineral resources, the depletion of forest areas and wetlands, the extinction of animal and plant species, and the deterioration in air and water quality (especially in Eastern Europe, the former USSR, and China) pose serious long-term problems that governments and peoples are only beginning to address. <---- I'm surprised to see such a frank description on a US gov. website.

even worse - gained

Indeed. Maybe it is being exported from low lying countries to nations at a higher altitude.

Indeed. Maybe it is being exported from low lying countries to nations at a higher altitude.

Or just they didn't make the adjustments for time in transit.

Indeed. Maybe it is being exported from low lying countries to nations at a higher altitude.

haha, yeah they don't mention whether pressure is constant or not, do they?

I found this interesting, well more amusing:

http://movie.aonservers.com/

Uuh-ahhh-ohohoh-eeeheh.;)

Very funny!

I've seen this recently. Quite interesting. It was the first time I've seen all those statistics about the whole world piled up at one place. Check it out:

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/xx.html

The point of this thread? Discuss something you find interesting or discuss about future...
I've had that bookmarked for years. And I wanted the current one for Christmas last year. Didn't get it. :(

I find it really cool just to browse through even if you're not looking for anything. But then, I'm kinda geeky about statistics...

I found this interesting, well more amusing:

http://movie.aonservers.com/

Cute. That last line: "The monkeys want to be something else because we are." Edited for truth. ;)

Uh-huh. Nobody ever even glided before the Wright brothers...

Airplane flight. No one ever flew before the Wright Brothers.

Corbournne;12539215']That's the average age of a random person in the world, not the median life expectancy.

oh yeah...you're right my bad :p

well im not as depressed anymore

No one besides those catapulted to death in the middle ages.

No one besides those catapulted to death in the middle ages.

Haha. Reminds me of those old cartoons, and the giant ACME slingshot.

Airplane flight. No one ever flew before the Wright Brothers.

'Airplane' subsumes gliders.

'Airplane' subsumes gliders.

airplane: a fixed wing aircraft heavier than air that is driven by a propeller or by a high-velocity jet and supported by dynamic reaction of the air against its wings

Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary

Gliders are not airplanes.

The point of this thread? Discuss something you find interesting or discuss about future...

I find it interesting that you've only recently discovered the CIA World Factbook. :p

airplane: a fixed wing aircraft heavier than air that is driven by a propeller or by a high-velocity jet and supported by dynamic reaction of the air against its wings

Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary

Gliders are not airplanes.

air·plane n. Any of various winged vehicles capable of flight, generally heavier than air and driven by jet engines or propellers. - The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

Shall we agree to differ?

I find it interesting that you've only recently discovered the CIA World Factbook. :p

I'm glad to see that they still have this note -

Coca (mostly Erythroxylum coca) is a bush with leaves that contain the stimulant used to make cocaine. Coca is not to be confused with cocoa, which comes from cacao seeds and is used in making chocolate, cocoa, and cocoa butter.

It just encourages idle speculation as to what near disastrous foreign mission required that they made this clear.

air·plane n. Any of various winged vehicles capable of flight, generally heavier than air and driven by jet engines or propellers. - The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

Shall we agree to differ?

glider: 1: one that glides, as a: an aircraft similar to an airplane but without an engine b: a porch seat...2: something that aids gliding
Webster's

glid·er /ˈglaɪdər/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[glahy-der] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. a motorless, heavier-than-air aircraft for gliding from a higher to a lower level by the action of gravity or from a lower to a higher level by the action of air currents.
2. a porch swing made of an upholstered seat suspended from a steel framework by links or springs.
3. a person or thing that glides.
4. a person who pilots a glider.
[Origin: 1400–50; late ME; see glide, -er1]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source
glid·er (glī'dər) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. A light engineless aircraft designed to glide after being towed aloft or launched from a catapult.
2. A swinging couch suspended from a vertical frame.
3. A device that aids gliding.

It seems that both a glider and an airplane are aircraft. Can we agree that it is necessary to differentiate that a glider is an unpowered aircraft and an airplane is a powered aircraft?

It seems that both a glider and an airplane are aircraft. Can we agree that it is necessary to differentiate that a glider is an unpowered aircraft and an airplane is a powered aircraft?

I certainly agree that both are aircraft, but the actual definition of an airplane remains somewhat open, depending upon whose version you use.

'Airplane' subsumes gliders.

Despite evidence to the contrary, I'm still nationally obligated to believe that Richard Pearse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse) did it first.


Geography - note:
Definition Field Listing
the world is now thought to be about 4.55 billion years old, just about one-third of the 13-billion-year age estimated for the universe


uh-oh, science on an official government website... Don't let you-know-who in on this. [/obligatory bashing]

I'm glad to see that they still have this note -

It just encourages idle speculation as to what near disastrous foreign mission required that they made this clear.


Yeah, if you're one of those wacko conspiracy theorists.

Oh wait...