The_Rev Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Orange areas are places where if you dug a whole and kept digging until you came out on the other side you would actually be in another country rather than in the middle of the ocean. I'm surprised how few places there actually are which are directly opposite another country on the globe. Slightly disappointed that New Zealand is opposite Spain rather than Italy too, a double boot would have been cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted March 25, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted March 25, 2012 That's a consequence of the Pacific covering rather close to an entire hemisphere (and the Northern Hemisphere having dramatically more land than the Southern). Another few million years of continental drift, though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 What's does the yellow represent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted March 25, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted March 25, 2012 One hypothesis of the next stop on the supercontinent cycle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted March 25, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted March 25, 2012 What's does the yellow represent? One hemisphere is blue, the other yellow, from the looks of it (basically in order to answer the "where you'd come out if you kept digging" question, you reflect one hemisphere defined by a great circle generated by two opposite meridians (e.g. the Prime Meridian and 180 degrees) about the Equator and then superimpose it on the other). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted March 30, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted March 30, 2012 Metal bands per capita by country Some of the source data is questionable though... consider the only metal band from the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Infertile Surrogacy It is questionable whether this band comes from Congo. Rumor has it, the band is a side project of Cerebral Effusion members. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Surely this correlates with the fact that suicide is much higer in scandinavia than any other place in the world? (might be wrong, but I know its higher than normal) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 interactive map of 2010/11 rail passenger usage figures (out today) New Street has gone down, it was always the busiest station outside of London, it has slipped behind Glasgow Central and Manchester Piccadilly this year. I suspect a large part of the reason is that more people are travelling to London from Moor Street and Snow Hill stations this year, so it has been a movement in passengers rather than a decline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 30, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted March 30, 2012 I expect that this will 'prove' that Manchester is The Second City, Rev. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 30, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted March 30, 2012 Surely this correlates with the fact that suicide is much higer in scandinavia than any other place in the world? (might be wrong, but I know its higher than normal)Long dark winter nights+cold+alcoholism+metal+suicide = Scandinavian stereotype. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted March 30, 2012 Moderator Share Posted March 30, 2012 And if that was true, Japan's colour would be a blacker shade of red. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Hungary has always had an extremely high suicide rate, often the highest in the world yet it is not a country which you stereotypically associate with hara kari. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 The next entry in the occasional "ask Levi what the **** this one represents" series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted April 8, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted April 8, 2012 More infographic than map, but... Proper soundtrack for this infographic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Purple: Europe. Blue: Areas colonised by Europeans. Pale Blue: Areas under European influence at some point in their history. Hats off to Korea, Saudi Arabia and, er, Oregon for holding out I guess! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted April 10, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted April 10, 2012 Afghanistan is arguable (even if we're not counting European involvement now, the Soviet invasion surely counts?) As for Oregon and Washington, the UK and US had dueling claims Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 The next entry in the occasional "ask Levi what the **** this one represents" series. Please put me out of my misery Rev, I have no idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Red are countries where the biggest city is not the capital city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 23, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted April 23, 2012 That is mental Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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