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Published: 2018-12-16 21:55:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 1681; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 15
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A simple map I created from a base picked up from DinoSpain (the same one used for the Northeast Asia without Siberian High Climate Map , specifically Basic World Map (V 2.0.): Rivers only ). This displays all areas on Earth—according to my extensive though not exhaustive searching through weather records—that have experienced at least one day in recorded meteorological history where Heat Miser had a total victory and the low temperature was above 100 °F*. So far, I have met no one either online or in real life who lives in such an are—oh, I remember... Navigator51 ?This is unrelated to the much more ambitious map I mentioned in this Status Update , though I am still working on said map, and this will become a component of another major map in the future.
If you have any questions or thoughts, please say 'em. I'd especially welcome corrections on such a map.
*Just to enrage the people who want the end of the US Customary System (seriously, how are you going to go about that, go full 秦始皇?), nope, not gonna convert it.
(Edit as of 2019-04-16 22:05 United States Eastern Time: Added the "Triangle of Fire" region in the Sahara [bounded by Adrar, In-Salah, and Reggane] after a happenstance finding that that last settlement—and therefore almost certainly the rest—had a century night on at least one occasion [2018-07-03]. Also added the lowlands around Yelimane, Mali.)
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Two real questions this time:
One--are those all the major rivers in the world?
Two--is there any way you can make this on an equirectangular projection?
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About your 2nd question... there's a possibility my most recent status update has an answer.
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*So I don't forget: Quriyat, Khasab, Muscat, and Sur, Oman; Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Kuwait City, Kuwait; Basrah, Iraq; Ahvaz and Bandar e-Mahshahr, Iran; Dallol, Ethiopia; Arak, Algeria (very likely); Bullhead City, Death Valley, and Needles, USA.
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Which smaller text, exactly?
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Oh. The reason is that many people—both those outside the US and largely liberal or "intellectual" types in the US—have a massive disdain for the US Customary System of measurement and would prefer the US to fully metricate, i.e. completely forget its traditional units.
I related them to 秦始皇 (the 1st Emperor of Qin) because they both used/would use coercive measures to instate one system of measure throughout a territory, mostly just for the sake of standardization. These people, like 秦始皇, tend to be the type that sees state-organized social engineering as justified to achieve a goal so long as it's "good".
I despise their typical "bandwagon" reasoning ("Because almost all the rest of the world is using it, we should, too!") as it shows a blind conformist mindset and has little bearing on the actual utility of the USCS they criticize, which considering that the USCS or similar systems were used for essentially all engineering projects in the US prior to the 1970s, is pretty high.
Because of that, I decided to own them a bit by not converting 100 °F to °C. After all, they can do it easily... provided they even know what the conversion factor is.
(BTW, I use the ISU for many things, I just don't hate the USCS or its usage like some folks do.)
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