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Seems related to the fact that you can draw a surprisingly-small circle over part of Asia and have more people inside the circle, than out. Human geography is very uneven.
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When does the mega sunspot or whatever hafta fire a large mass ejection at us, and how strong would it have to be, to cook most of humanity?
The sun fires multiple ejections a day big enough to cook us. They just all miss. It would be like you stepping outside and shooting a bullet in a random direction a few times a day, with Earth being a golf ball miles away. The golf ball would be destroyed by a bullet. But your odds of hitting it are very low. Of course, over time the odds become an inevitability.
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The sun fires multiple ejections a day big enough to cook us. They just all miss. It would be like you stepping outside and shooting a bullet in a random direction a few times a day, with Earth being a golf ball miles away. The golf ball would be destroyed by a bullet. But your odds of hitting it are very low. Of course, over time the odds become an inevitability.
Why is this downvoted? Is it wrong? I do like it as an explanation!
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A practical issue- if you have a world-distributed workforce or an international news agency, what's the best geographical location for the headquarters?
Are we channeling through internet cabling or magical straight lines?
Seems related to the fact that you can draw a surprisingly-small circle over part of Asia and have more people inside the circle, than out. Human geography is very uneven.
Seems related to the fact that you can draw a surprisingly-small circle over part of Asia and have more people inside the circle, than out. Human geography is very uneven.
Sure, but there's still a big difference between 50% and 99%. In this case it wasn't just about population, most landmass was also covered.
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A practical issue- if you have a world-distributed workforce or an international news agency, what's the best geographical location for the headquarters?
London has long benefitted from its position allowing its working day overlapping everywhere from the US West coast to Japan, even if barely at those extremes. Most of the world's population lies between UTC-5 and UTC+5 I believe.
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Australia is basically Hot Canada.
Australia: Our brother to the hot south with more sex appeal and far less marriage material.
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A practical issue- if you have a world-distributed workforce or an international news agency, what's the best geographical location for the headquarters?
London has long benefitted from its position allowing its working day overlapping everywhere from the US West coast to Japan, even if barely at those extremes. Most of the world's population lies between UTC-5 and UTC+5 I believe.
