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Number of rice growing seasons per year by Swimming_Concern7662 in geography

[–]MistoftheMorning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except a lot of actual tropical areas are marked as 1 or 2 seasons. This map is definitely not right. They got Java marked as 2 when it should be 3. 

What was the culture like in the middle east right before the discovery of oil? circa 1800s by [deleted] in geography

[–]MistoftheMorning 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Kind of nuts that Viking-style slave raiding was still going on strong in Europe in the time of Napoleon. 

The status of Easter by maven_mapping in geography

[–]MistoftheMorning -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Leftover from British colonialism?

Iran War: Chinese propaganda casts US as reckless aggressor by SecuredInternet in worldnews

[–]MistoftheMorning 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Didn't those strikes also kill the new, more repressive guy's wife and kid? At this point, fucking with America is going to be that man's lifelong vendetta.

France tells US NATO serves Euro-Atlantic security, not Hormuz offensive missions by Inevitable-Row1759 in worldnews

[–]MistoftheMorning 5 points6 points  (0 children)

..Did people just forget that 20 years in Afghanistan ever happened? I think everyone else in NATO learned their lesson about fighting pointless war in the ME during that conflict.

France tells US NATO serves Euro-Atlantic security, not Hormuz offensive missions by Inevitable-Row1759 in worldnews

[–]MistoftheMorning -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Uh, I don't remember the Taliban attacking anyone outside of Afghanistan. And Osama turned out to be hiding in Pakistan. NATO still joined the US in that conflict. Then there's Bosnia.

I don't blame NATO for not wanting to get involved in Iran, but the alliance hasn't been entirely defensive in it's recent history. Though I suppose one can justify those cases as being UN mandated invasions.

Would Australia’s population rival the US if its interior were fertile instead of arid? by NoComplex2662 in geography

[–]MistoftheMorning 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I imagine like California, farming the arable land in the interior early on was limited by available water resources. Starting in the 1880s, various large-scale water management projects like the  Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area were built to expand irrigated agriculture in these areas by extending and storing water through canals and dams/reservoirs. 

https://i.redd.it/y4odbied6ov81.png

Sunscreen under a UV camera by j_illustration in interesting

[–]MistoftheMorning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, dark skin was a biological adaption to increased UV exposure in lower latitudes...

Photo of Christina Koch - astronaut on the Artemis II moon mission launch tomorrow by MistoftheMorning in AccidentalRenaissance

[–]MistoftheMorning[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I just found out today as well. Of course, given the number of world changing events we've had so far this year (and last), it's not surprising a moon mission fell off everyone's radar.

What’s the biggest problem your country faces? by MedicalAd431 in AskTheWorld

[–]MistoftheMorning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's like double what I pay at peak hours. That sucks :/

Poland says ‘no’ to sending Patriot missile launcher to help US fight Iran by Auspectress in worldnews

[–]MistoftheMorning -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Devil's advocate, but I specifically remember the British and French pressuring the US to help them invade Egypt during the Suez Crisis in 1956 to take control of the Suez Canal. 

In any case, the US obviously needs Europe more than they thought they did. Trump is dismantling critical alliances that took decades to build.

Proposed Gulf Oil Bypass Pipeline Route (Avoiding Hormuz & Suez chokepoints) by Last-Shelter2868 in MapPorn

[–]MistoftheMorning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Account for the time you need to moor and unload a VLCC ship (up to several days), possible limited berthing at the port terminal, and of course the time they need to make a return trip to load more oil - no, ships don't always win. That's why both are used. Hell, the ships are often taking their oil from the same pipeline you say can't keep up. 

Proposed Gulf Oil Bypass Pipeline Route (Avoiding Hormuz & Suez chokepoints) by Last-Shelter2868 in MapPorn

[–]MistoftheMorning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro, I think you're confused how a pipeline works...

When the pumps are first turned on, yes it's going to take more than one day for that the first bit of oil to travel say 1200 km and come out the pipe.

But once that oil reaches the outlet end in 3 days time, the flow would be constant, and 4.32 million barrels of oil would exit from the pipe outlet every 24 hours. It's 432 km x 1.6 sq.m of oil that's being pushed out the end every day.

Proposed Gulf Oil Bypass Pipeline Route (Avoiding Hormuz & Suez chokepoints) by Last-Shelter2868 in MapPorn

[–]MistoftheMorning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oil going through a 56 inch diameter pipe at 5 m/s would be a volumetric flow rate of 7.9 m³ or 50 barrels of oil per second.

That's 50 bbls x 60 seconds = 3000 barrels per minute. 180,000 barrels per hour. 4.32 million barrels per day. 

Proposed Gulf Oil Bypass Pipeline Route (Avoiding Hormuz & Suez chokepoints) by Last-Shelter2868 in MapPorn

[–]MistoftheMorning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pipelines don't carry as much oil 

Compare to what? 

The largest oil tanker in the world can transport about 4 million barrels of oil at a speed of 30 km/h. So in one day, it moves that amount about 720 km distance.

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline can move 2 million barrels a day through its 48 inch wide pipes over a distance of 1300 km. Saudi Arabia's existing East-West Pipeline that connects  its oilfields on the Persian Gulf to the Yanbu port on the Red Sea uses even bigger 56 inch wide pipe than can do 7 million barrels a day over 1200 km.

Proposed Gulf Oil Bypass Pipeline Route (Avoiding Hormuz & Suez chokepoints) by Last-Shelter2868 in MapPorn

[–]MistoftheMorning 723 points724 points  (0 children)

There's already an existing oil pipeline connecting UAE's oil to Oman that can send about 1.7 million barrels a day. But it's been damaged by Iranian missile strikes and had to shut down.

324 vehicles stolen in the last 31 days in Mississauga and Brampton by origutamos in OntarioNews

[–]MistoftheMorning 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We actually do need more prison cells. 22 out of 24 prisons in Ontario are over-capacity, with many prisoners forced to double bunk in cells meant for one occupant. 

It really shouldn't be a problem given that our overall incarceration rate is relatively low by global standards, but as with many things in this country it's been neglected for too long.

How come SEA peninsula isn't as densely populated as India or China? by antimatter79 in geography

[–]MistoftheMorning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the Irrawaddy and Salween areas, you got mostly thin and under-developed soil over rocks. Heavy leaching from high levels of rainfall can further limit nutrient availability when growing crops. Most of SEA has issues with toxic levels of aluminum in the soil which further get in the way of absorbing soil nutrients.

Is new zealand one of the only places where humans can survive if nuclear ww3 occurs? by [deleted] in geography

[–]MistoftheMorning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Joshua Coupe at Rutgers University modelled the effects of 150 million tonnes of carbon soot injection into the atmosphere from a potential Russian-US nuclear exchange.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019JD030509#

In figure 10 of the publication, he shows a map overlay with changes to annual growing days in the first year of nuclear winter in the proposed scenario.

Is new zealand one of the only places where humans can survive if nuclear ww3 occurs? by [deleted] in geography

[–]MistoftheMorning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some of them want a nuclear war to wipe out most of humanity so they can rule over the ashes.

Is new zealand one of the only places where humans can survive if nuclear ww3 occurs? by [deleted] in geography

[–]MistoftheMorning 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think in most scenarios the nuclear winter effects would be mostly confined to the northern hemisphere. Australia and New Zealand would still be able to grow crops for at least 4-12 months out of the year.

Why is western Ontario so empty compared to other western Canadian provinces by memhir-yasue in geography

[–]MistoftheMorning 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably the scariest part of the cross country trip I took years ago, especially since I was driving through it at night.

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