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Point Nemo, the most remote location on Earth, lies deep in the Pacific Ocean, 2,687 km from Antarctica. Discovered in 1992, it is so isolated that astronauts aboard the International Space Station, orbiting 417 km above Earth, are often its closest human neighbors. 🛰️🌊
Nicknamed the "spacecraft cemetery," this desolate point serves as the final resting place for decommissioned satellites and space debris, ensuring they crash safely into the ocean. It also gained intrigue in 1997 when the enigmatic “Bloop” sound was detected—an immense, deep noise later linked to shifting icebergs beneath the sea. 🌐🧊
A testament to Earth’s vastness and enduring mysteries, Point Nemo remains one of the most fascinating and isolated places on the planet.
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1,000 Years Of National Borders In Europe On One Map
Map created by reddit user desfirsitThe map above shows the cumulative border changes in Europe over 1,000 years in 100 year increments from 1,000 AD – 2,000 AD.
Here’s desfirsit explaining what he did:
https://brilliantmaps.com/1000-years-of-national-borders-europe/#more-19567
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The three maps are
a Income per capita.
b Income inequality (Gini index).
c Inequality extraction.
The emergence of vast territorial empires is a recurring development in the history of human civilization. Their ability to extract resources from their subjects, and to redistribute them, also increases the potential of higher levels of economic inequality. Here we explore how imperial structures contributed to set the level of inequality in two ancient empires, the Roman Empire ca. 165 CE and the Chinese Han Empire ca. 2 CE. We estimate the overall levels of imperial inequality as the combination of inequality between and within regions. We find that the Han Empire was, overall, more unequal and extractive than the Roman Empire. Other empires, however, were even more extractive, as shown by a comparison with the Aztec Empire ca. 1492. We argue that higher inequality increased the potential for political instability and the collapse of empires.
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