Interesting Maps

M.T. Cranium · 26-11-2025 11:25AM

Actually Canada is fully metric in terms of what measures are used in most aspects of daily life, not sure where the mapmaker got the idea it was mixed usage here. And it is almost 99% non-metric in the USA, I suppose there are businesses that use some metric measurements because they are importing and exporting but in everyday life Americans have little clue what most metric measures mean.

In Canada some older people (like myself) use inches and yards in a few areas of conversation and most golf courses in Canada do not show a metric guide so I guess there's one part of life that is mixed, but there is never any reference to gallons, quarts or pints except when older housewives try to convert them to metric from cookbooks.

Metric conversion took place in Canada in the 1970s so it's not like the mapmaker missed a recent development. Anyone under fifty in Canada has no idea what most so-called Imperial measures would be like, even the term mile is probably only vaguely understood by younger people. I find that I convert a lot of things back and forth because I have to deal with Americans on weather forums a lot of my time on the internet, and we used to travel quite often across the border. That leads me to the other mistake on a map, China is not the most hated country in Canada and probably never has been, there's a bit of a cult of admiration of Chinese communism among Canadian elites (not a member), prior to 2024 I would say no particular nation was very much hated in Canada since most of the world has no clue we are here and so there were no real points of contention. Russia was becoming disliked once again mostly by elites jumping to the command to be as European as possible when you're not European (one wonders why bother then since Europe seems to have no ban on immigration and surely it makes sense to live in Europe if one really wants to be European). The average person in Canada nowadays would answer USA to the question of most hated nation, whatever Trump's reasons may be for his actions (it seems to be largely rooted in concerns about the free flow of drugs and fentanyl across borders) people in Canada have felt blind-sided by a sudden change in attitude although since I deal with Americans a lot I knew it was there in the background, and there are some points that represent blind spots on both sides.

So I would not characterize Canada as being an anti-Chinese hot spot nor a metric holdout. But hey what do I know, I just live here, the mapmaker probably never visited Canada but Knows A Lot.

JupiterKid · 26-11-2025 12:18PM

Images taken in high resolution from orbit of the openings of caves beneath the surface of Mars by the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Space scientists believe that these caves, formed probably by lava flows via underground tunnels, are ideal sites for hunan settlement due to intense solar UV shielding.