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PotD: How many continents are there?

Started by Kalahari Inkantation, September 07, 2018, 08:45:58 PM

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Kalahari Inkantation

September 08, 2018, 10:39:38 AM #15
Quote from: C.Mongler on September 08, 2018, 10:36:07 AMamerica is one thing

wrong

Quote from: C.Mongler on September 08, 2018, 10:36:07 AMeurasia is one thing
africa gets to be its own thing because of toto
australia
antarctica

same

Mando Pandango

September 08, 2018, 11:30:55 AM #16
If Africa gets to be its own thing, I see no reason why you'd combine the Americas
Quote from: Magyarorszag on August 22, 2018, 10:27:46 PMjesus absolute shitdicking christ, nu-boyah

C.Mongler

September 08, 2018, 03:41:00 PM #17
when toto writes a hit song about the continent of south america then we can talk


until then america is conjoined via panama and no man made canal can convince me otherwise.

Thyme

September 08, 2018, 04:18:39 PM #18
continents are a spook

it's all connected underwater

Nyerp

September 08, 2018, 04:20:49 PM #19
round earth is a spook

The artist formally known

September 08, 2018, 04:24:47 PM #20

Mando Pandango

September 08, 2018, 10:45:21 PM #21
Quote from: C.Mongler on September 08, 2018, 03:41:00 PMwhen toto writes a hit song about the continent of south america then we can talk


until then america is conjoined via panama and no man made canal can convince me otherwise.
Africa is also conjoined via the Suez peninsula, and a man made canal shouldn't change that either.
Quote from: Magyarorszag on August 22, 2018, 10:27:46 PMjesus absolute shitdicking christ, nu-boyah

Samus Aran

September 09, 2018, 03:00:27 AM #22
continents that are barely conjoined are separate enough in my book. so africa is its own thing, and the americas are their own things.

but eurasia makes a lot of sense, i've never really understood the need to separate europe from western asia.

so my preferred model would definitely be that particular six-continent one.

on a semi-related note, can we someday come up with a better name than "south america" and "north america?" i understand that "america" was initially intended to just be a name for the western hemisphere in general, the new lands discovered by european explorers...but "america" is far too often just shorthand for our country these days, so the whole naming system seems misleading. either we rename the continents or rename our country.

C.Mongler

September 09, 2018, 08:14:55 AM #23
Quote from: Detective Spatchcock on September 08, 2018, 10:45:21 PM
Quote from: C.Mongler on September 08, 2018, 03:41:00 PMwhen toto writes a hit song about the continent of south america then we can talk


until then america is conjoined via panama and no man made canal can convince me otherwise.
Africa is also conjoined via the Suez peninsula, and a man made canal shouldn't change that either.
a man made hit #1 single does however

Kalahari Inkantation

September 09, 2018, 02:14:09 PM #24


show me on the map where """europe""" and """asia""" split



either above or below ground

go on now

Kalahari Inkantation

September 09, 2018, 02:16:30 PM #25
Quote from: Samus Aran on September 09, 2018, 03:00:27 AMbut eurasia makes a lot of sense, i've never really understood the need to separate europe from western asia.

so my preferred model would definitely be that particular six-continent one.

wrench;

Quote from: Samus Aran on September 09, 2018, 03:00:27 AMon a semi-related note, can we someday come up with a better name than "south america" and "north america?" i understand that "america" was initially intended to just be a name for the western hemisphere in general, the new lands discovered by european explorers...but "america" is far too often just shorthand for our country these days, so the whole naming system seems misleading. either we rename the continents or rename our country.

srsly, how lazy of cartographers to name two enormous and very clearly distinct landmasses "america"

anyway i call dibs on the name america for america

the rest of north and south america will have to find some other title

Mando Pandango

September 09, 2018, 02:20:05 PM #26
Quote from: Magyarorszag on September 09, 2018, 02:14:09 PM

show me on the map where """europe""" and """asia""" split



either above or below ground

go on now
The Ural and Caucasus mountains are generally used to define the border and you know this
Quote from: Magyarorszag on August 22, 2018, 10:27:46 PMjesus absolute shitdicking christ, nu-boyah

don't let's

September 09, 2018, 02:26:37 PM #27
But then how many sub continents are there?

don't let's

September 09, 2018, 02:30:33 PM #28
Quote from: Magyarorszag on September 09, 2018, 02:14:09 PM

show me on the map where """europe""" and """asia""" split



either above or below ground

go on now

Kalahari Inkantation

September 09, 2018, 02:31:12 PM #29
Quote from: Detective Spatchcock on September 09, 2018, 02:20:05 PMThe Ural and Caucasus mountains are generally used to define the border and you know this

the what now

i don't see either of those geographic features on either of those maps

what i do see, however, are giant isthmuses like suez and panama, and island continents like australia and antarctica
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