That's Mad!

Kintarō Hattori · 14-05-2007 3:10am #1

I was browsing through Wikipedia and came across this link from the CIA!!!!!
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ei.html

Talk about seriously detailed! I had a chuckle or two, especially when I learnt that we had 2.55 million radio's in 1997 and that in 2005 we had 753km of pleasure craft only waterways!

Ahh I was just surprised that they keep such a detailed list. Obviously it's for the benefit of US citizens, but do you think anyone actually accesses content such as this?

Dirk Gently · 14-05-2007 3:35am

is the coastline figure correct - 1,448 km.

White Knight · 14-05-2007 3:43am

Climate:
mild winters, cool summers; consistently humid; overcast about half the time :rolleyes:

Dirk Gently · 14-05-2007 3:46am

white knight? is that you in my sig :eek:

dirty CIA goings on in this thread I tell ya.

Kintarō Hattori · 14-05-2007 3:51am

lol -

White Knight · 14-05-2007 3:54am

clown bag wrote:

white knight? is that you in my sig :eek:

It is the messing with the head hour of the morn!:cool:

Tar.Aldarion · 14-05-2007 7:54am

Link not working for me.

jon1981 · 14-05-2007 7:56am

me neither

Black Swan · 14-05-2007 8:13am

The CIA online Factbook you can access for around 200 nations? They are heavily demographic with lots of details. They supposedly have "black box" (they won't share their formulas) theoretical models they attempt to use to predict what nation's will do. Ha! Doesn't seem to be working! Or if they do work, the Bush administration doesn't use them! Their foreign policies are terribly failing!

Kintarō Hattori · 14-05-2007 8:35am

New link above and here which is the same information slightly differantly displayed.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ei.html

Heisenberg. · 14-05-2007 9:05am

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Miguel_Sanchez · 14-05-2007 9:11am

I remember an online (or possibly CD-Rom) encylopedia in the 90's which had its info on countries supplied by the CIA. One of Ireland's main exports was listed as rice! Probably cause it's grown in Paddy fields.