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    #3122
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users Posts: 14,359 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    in the northern territories in canada, population density is 0.1 per sq mile.

    There's a very good reason for that.


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    #3123
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,407 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    yeah, no one wants to live there because the broadband is appalling.


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    #3124
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,749 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    yagan wrote: »
    I think in the maps above it's New York cities and attached burroughs rather than NY state, which can be extremely rural and underpopulated in most parts.

    cursedearthmap_low-jpg.115012
    It's Mega City One


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    #3125
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,749 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    1024px-MapofEmergingUSMegaregions.png

    US mega regions


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    #3126
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,729 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Pop-density-Canada.jpg

    You could get lonely up there, though the black fly, midges and mosquitos would just love to keep you company. The yanks have a funny name for midges;
    no-see-ums


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    #3127
    Capt'n Midnight
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    jDoi1pO.png




    G9LhpoS.jpg


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    #3128
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,175 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    They loved a straight road, the Romans


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    #3129
    chooseusername
    Registered Users Posts: 3,600 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    I can hear the traffic on the V11 , Watling street 4 miles north of Lactodurum (Towcester)
    from the back of my house as I sit here watching the sunset.


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    #3130
    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    They loved a straight road, the Romans
    Empires were built and maintained on the back of infrastructure.

    This is the Royal Road of the Persian Empire of 500 BCE. It was a private road - if you travelled on it without warrant you could be killed - with fresh horses at regular waystations that meant a message could travel a nearly absurd 2700 km in 9 days.
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    Herodotus talked about it in Historia, and a quote from that became the unofficial motto of the US Postal Service. "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers"

    The Royal Road was built by Darius the Great, who invaded Greece only to be stopped by the Athenians at Marathon (the source of the Marathon Run legend, and hence the modern marathon event at the Olympics).

    Darius' son, Xerxes, succeeded him, invaded Greece again, and it was this invasion that was held up by the Spartans (and assorted others at Thermopylae, as depicted wildly inaccurately in the movie 300.

    Herodotus does however back up two of the best quotes in the movie. When Xerxes sent ambassadors to Sparta to demand a symbolic gift of water and earth to signify submission, the Spartan king threw them down a well, saying, "You'll find plenty of both down there". And when the Spartans at Thermopylae were told that the Persian arrows would black out the sun, they replied, "Then we will fight in the shade."


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    #3131
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,262 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Huge (3000 x 11000 pixels) composite photo of the northern section of the Suez Canal. https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/06/Suez_Canal_complete


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    #3132
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users Posts: 5,471 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    Orange Lodges in 6 counties, 2001
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    Orange Density by Ward , Northern Ireland , 1991
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    Orange Lodges in Ontario 1975
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    #3133
    Mullinabreena
    Registered Users Posts: 393 ✭✭Mullinabreena


    The Downs survey of Ireland map from the 1600s is quite interesting. I was looking where I live and it's amazing to see the townlands haven't changed in 400 years.

    http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php


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    #3134
    retalivity
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    "Protestant Land" everywhere...


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    #3135
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users Posts: 5,471 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    retalivity wrote: »
    "Protestant Land" everywhere...


    My district is mostly papist, then as now. The reason being the other annotations on the map "mountanie bog" "bogy pasture" "red bog" "turf bog" "bog in comon" "cours rocky pasture" "unprofit" "cours mountaynes", you couldn't "plant" anyone there.


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    #3136
    Capt'n Midnight
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    most-rivers-run-dry.jpg


    Over half of the world's rivers cease to flow for at least one day a year on average


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    #3137
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,393 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Comparison of the surface area of planets and moons in the Solar System. The colours in the graphic is the average colour of the surface of each body.

    Link here for a better resolution: https://d2pn8kiwq2w21t.cloudfront.net/images/infographicsuploadsinfographicsfull10794.width-1320.jpg

    infographicsuploadsinfographicsfull10794.width-1320.jpg


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    #3138
    Capt'n Midnight
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    surface_area.png


    https://explainxkcd.com/1389/
    Non-Solar Bodies
    Between Earth and Titan is a tiny speck noted all human skin, which is an interesting sort of solid surface. A rough estimate of the average body surface area and thus of the average area of all humans skin can be made from these average values and from population pyramids as this pyramid for 2015. Average adults have a skin area of around 1.7-1.8 m2, but as a large part of the human population are children (with skin area down to about 0.25 m2 for infants) the total average will be smaller. By extrapolating the given values an average area of about 1.6 m2 can be found. This would make the area 7.2 billion × 1.6 m2 ≈ 11,500 km2. This is 60 times smaller than the smallest of the labeled moons Miranda (of Uranus) with a surface area of 700,000 km2.


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    #3139
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 20,808 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    KevRossi wrote: »
    Comparison of the surface area of planets and moons in the Solar System. The colours in the graphic is the average colour of the surface of each body.

    Link here for a better resolution: https://d2pn8kiwq2w21t.cloudfront.net/images/infographicsuploadsinfographicsfull10794.width-1320.jpg

    infographicsuploadsinfographicsfull10794.width-1320.jpg

    Uranus is bleeding massive.




    Sorry.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    #3140
    highdef
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    Brian? wrote: »
    Uranus is bleeding massive.




    Sorry.

    I've been told that it's lovely.


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    #3141
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,908 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Every ringfort in the Republic of Ireland...
    Ringforts are the most common historical field monument in Ireland with an estimated 45,000 examples identified to date, meaning that Ireland has a ringfort for every 2km² !
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    From http://vool.ie/everyringfort/ who are aiming to provide a satellite tweet for each site (https://twitter.com/everyringfort)


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    #3142
    Tell me how
    Registered Users Posts: 21,517 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    Every ringfort in the Republic of Ireland...


    556505.png

    From http://vool.ie/everyringfort/ who are aiming to provide a satellite tweet for each site (https://twitter.com/everyringfort)

    Wow. Quite the switch in population spread when you look at Connaught region and Leinster compared to how they are today.

    Not saying the ringfort was a direct indicator of population density but you'd think they'd have been linked.


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    #3143
    Brian?
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    Tell me how wrote: »
    Wow. Quite the switch in population spread when you look at Connaught region and Leinster compared to how they are today.

    Not saying the ringfort was a direct indicator of population density but you'd think they'd have been linked.

    At first glance it looks like they are more dense in flatter areas. No hills to defend. There is also a correlation with the Shannon. Must have been nice fishing.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    #3144
    Mullinabreena
    Registered Users Posts: 393 ✭✭Mullinabreena


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    Every ringfort in the Republic of Ireland...


    556505.png

    From http://vool.ie/everyringfort/ who are aiming to provide a satellite tweet for each site (https://twitter.com/everyringfort)

    Sadly in the east many ringforts have been destroyed to make way for agriculture. Its happening more in the west then it once did too. In Sligo, Where I live it has one of the highest amount of ringforts, cronogs, neolithic and megalithic structures in Ireland


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    #3145
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    Brian? wrote: »
    Uranus is bleeding massive.




    Sorry.

    Sorry to say, Uranus looks big in this.


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    #3146
    Mullinabreena
    Registered Users Posts: 393 ✭✭Mullinabreena


    Mica and Pyrite map of Ireland

    https://www.zeemaps.com/mica_pyrite_mapping


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    #3147
    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,641 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Mullinabreena wrote: »
    Mica and Pyrite map of Ireland

    https://www.zeemaps.com/mica_pyrite_mapping

    Thanks a lot Mullinabreena.
    You sent me down a mica rabbit hole for the last 40 minutes which means I'm now the country's leading expert on Cassidy Bros and their mica blocks.
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057901409&page=87


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    #3148
    farmchoice
    Registered Users Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭farmchoice


    Mullinabreena wrote: »
    Mica and Pyrite map of Ireland

    https://www.zeemaps.com/mica_pyrite_mapping


    thats very interesting. the most interesting thing is one house in a very large estate in dunboye has pyrite and another one in Gorey

    now if you were from north mayo you would by now understand that if one house in an estate has its almost certain that if not every house has it then the vast majority of them do.
    this is the such big news it should be the headline on the 9 o clock news and on the front of every paper.
    because if one estate in dunboye has it and one in gorey its highly likely that dozens and dozens of other estates have it, possibly tens of thousands of houses.


    mayo and donegal are only the tip of the iceberg. the quarry in mayo that produced the pyrite blocks sent them all over Ireland.



    this could cost more than bailing out the banks.


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    #3149
    MyStubbleItches
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭MyStubbleItches


    There’s one house in Cork, happens to be in my locality. No new house built there so I’m wondering if it’s an older problem. How is it reported does anyone know?


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    #3150
    Stovepipe
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    possibly because of the cement portion in the mix. I was told by someone in the building business that a greater percentage of cement in the blocks nullifies the effects of mica. How true that is, I don't know.


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    #3151
    Hurrache
    Registered Users Posts: 10,148 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Mullinabreena wrote: »
    Mica and Pyrite map of Ireland

    https://www.zeemaps.com/mica_pyrite_mapping

    Doesn't seem very accurate at all when it comes to pyrite. There's plenty around the Leinster region and yet there's just the one in Dunboyne on the map.


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