Wouldn't it be more efficient to play old-fashioned Russian Roulette and leve the geography unspoiled?
199121
For the..."thrill of victory and the agony of defeat."
122262
I think that some cavewoman already came up with that one...most likely the cavemen had to make a truce and in turn lead to what we have today...archaic as it is with all of the games that some or most people want to play...But, if the right gal came along, and clubbed me over the head, that would be fine. :)
53648
I'd say it was a bit on the unlikely side.  I'm sure that if such a construction method proved successful it would be more widely used.
657742
I have found personally that I can cover a given distance on the flats in better time than if the terrain is uneven, esp if there are any significant hills to climb.  In part because it takes more energy to climb, but also because you spend more time climbing at a slower speed than you spend zooming downhill at a faster speed so there is not an even distribution of time at each speed.
161459
not really, it's hard to retrieve your game when it's behind a fence.\n\nhowever, i've shot alot of pigeons in old buildings downtown.
87196
Good question but I have to say that messing with the universe is rather impulsive and risky. Perhaps we should look to simpler projects like over population or world peace?\n\n*wink*
203503
try the geosites, it's better,
203662
Sure, why not.  I have a map that tells elevation and is color-coded for the geologic age of the exposed rocks.  That's four dimensions.
260728
No, revolutions only bring mayhem and ruin. How about getting rid of Mexico by uniting it with Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and (just for the hell of it) Arizona. It could be called Mexsaldurna! New Mexico could just be Mexico. While we're at it, why not divide North Dakota into Northern Dakota, Northernmost Dakota and The Useless Patch of Land between Northernmost Dakota and Canada. And get rid of upper Michigan. Give it to Canada so we could take that New Brunswick. Next, divide the Carolinas into 23 states, each named Carolina, with minor spelling changes. Also, while I have your attention, we should erase Rhode Island. I don't mean annex it to Massachusetts, I mean erase it. Take a pencil to it, and make a big white space with nothing in it. And do something about Colorado and Wyoming! They look exactly alike in maps, and a square is such a boring shape. Make Wyoming into a triangle, and Colorado into a complex myriagon. Then unify Kansas and Nebraska to form Kanraska, and only let stupid white corn-huskers live there. And, if I could venture out of America for a sec, lets do away with all of these Soviet countries. There are fifteen, but their all so useless, why not make them into four? Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan? Who needs em? Moldova? Make that, new Romania! Now... what were we talking about?
283693
Technology really insufficient to economically tap it. probably end up spending more than you'd save in most places.\nst\nMayhaps someday economies of scale may improve viability?
132499
Yes, it would be more accurate, but the calculations are much harder. Whether it is worth it depends on what you have to do with the information. One thing that happens is 'frame dragging', where a rotating mass drags along space and time with the rotation. We now have a probe in orbit around the earth to measure exactly this phenomenon.
584016
arc gis sounds good try it and have fun
492557
You could do it the risky way, by sailing to the edge and hoping the current pulling water off the edge doesn't get you, too.  I don't recommend this.  The young men in my village (I live on an island close to the edge of the world) used to do this on dares, until we lost three young husbands and twelve manlings on an ill-fated drunken bet.  There was such a shortage of men we had to dress some of the maids in armour and set them to the oars during our next raid, just to have enough people!\n\n(Some people are so ignorant -- I'm still chortling.  Next I bet your friend Eric Halfwit will tell you that thunder is created by something soft like clouds rather than by Thor's mighty hammer!  Or that the sun is made of flaming air, rather than the shining Goddess Sol, fleeing across the sky from the wolf Skoll.)\n\nThe safer way to prove the earth is not round is by digging a hole deep enough that you come to the bottom of the earth, then you can stick your heads through and show him how the earth rests on the back of four giant elephants.  The bottom of the earth has no hills or mountains, so it's easier to see its flatness, too.\n\nPlus, how could it be a pig's bladder?  Wouldn't it pop and fly out of its place in the center of the universe the first time somebody dug a well and punctured its surface?  Hasn't Eric Halfwit thought of this yet?\n\nThis all shows that too much thinking is dangerous.  We should be making babies and pillaging villages -- ideas like that may anger the gods and ruin next year's crops. . . in the villages we raid.
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no, the actually would be very inefficient.
93203
Yes, to the extent that we don't have to look them up in a table when we want to do intricate calculations. But they could still be valuable, if you know how to use the tables. \n\nDo you realize that the atomic bomb and the Apollo ships \nthat landed on the moon were designed with slide rules...? And they are nothing more than mechanized logarithm tables. \n\nThere is a saying that one modern calculator could have won World War II in weeks. That may be overstating the case, but it would certainly have simplified the logistics situation, doing calculations that large accounting departments were needed for, even aside from the Manahttan Project. \n\nAnd when the astronauts first took up a pocket calculator with them it was intended as an Emergency Backup for the on-board computer. Modern pocket calculators have a hundred times the memory and speed the Apollo on-board computers did. At least. It is hard to visualize how fast and how much computing power has changed in the last two generations of human life on earth.\n\nHowever, to adapt an old saying about work and money, books will get you through times of no batteries or chargers.... You get the idea. Don't throw them out yet!
271449
Great idea, go and cheat.
79387
Yes. Assuming it's a map of the right part of the world. :)\n\nBut then... I'm not American.