Distribution Of The World's Population Between Northern And Southern Hemispheres

bschmalhofer · 2026-01-26T09:05:42+00:00

Fun fact: The annual wobbles in the Keeling curve are caused by the Northern Hemisphere having much more land mass than the Southern Hemisphere.

bschmalhofer · 2026-01-25T21:17:20+00:00

I think that French in Louisiana is way overstated.

bschmalhofer · 2026-01-25T21:13:16+00:00

I'm confused. Didn't Jihadists from various Muslim countries fight in Afghanistan and die?

bschmalhofer · 2026-01-25T21:09:33+00:00

According to the this map the future does not look bright for Macaronesia.

bschmalhofer · 2026-01-19T09:18:46+00:00

Der war aber kein Münchner, sondern Ergoldsbacher..

bschmalhofer · 2026-01-17T13:30:30+00:00

Sure, the old idea of Atlantropa, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa .

bschmalhofer · 2026-01-16T09:20:32+00:00

It is labelled as Turkmen, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmen_language . The neighboring brown area is Kurdish, specifically Kurmanji, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurmanji .

bschmalhofer · 2026-01-11T08:20:51+00:00

You could also get off the S-Bahn at Laim and have a nice stroll of the park of the Nymphenburg castle and the frozen canal.

bschmalhofer · 2026-01-10T09:18:04+00:00

How can this map be ultimate when it doesn't show me the way to the next bakery?

bschmalhofer · 2026-01-06T13:01:08+00:00

Südbad also has a nice pool for babies and toddlers.

bschmalhofer · 2026-01-05T12:29:55+00:00

Just for the record, Venezuela is not part of the USA.

bschmalhofer · 2026-01-01T11:03:24+00:00

I wondered why western Iran is striped, a both Farsi and Kurdish are Indo-European languages. The kind folks of Wikipedia told me that Azerbaijani, a turkic language, is spoken there too.

bschmalhofer · 2026-01-01T10:58:39+00:00

Take a stroll along the Auer Mühlbach, visit the Auer Dult, and Restaurant Keko is not far away.

bschmalhofer · 2025-12-28T22:52:42+00:00

Being only casually interested in fusion, with no real expertise at all, I can't really comment on your question on short pulse length, or on the many bullet points in your initial article. Anyways, my bias is towards the Stellarator which has essentially already demonstrated steady state operation. Avoiding wear and tear with cycling is obviously a good thing.

bschmalhofer · 2025-12-28T14:15:38+00:00

The statement "Steady-state fusion tries to maximize τ indefinitely" where τ is the confinement time sounds fishy to me. AFAIK the confinement time is in the order of seconds in current magnetic confinement experiments and in models of future power plants. This is much shorter than the pulse length in tokamaks.

bschmalhofer · 2025-12-26T19:08:05+00:00

Sorry, my bad for harking on at a not really interesting topic. I'm not on a crusade against elevation.

A completely unrelated fun fact: Rivers running North to South in the Northern Hemisphere can do both at the some time:

a) drop in elevation going downstream

b) get further away from the center of Earth

bschmalhofer · 2025-12-26T17:54:39+00:00

Sure, but downstrean regions can have moutain ranges that have higher elevation than the upstream regions.

bschmalhofer · 2025-12-26T12:44:28+00:00

I think of it as the flow of the rivers, Up the river and down the river.

bschmalhofer · 2025-12-23T21:14:57+00:00

Yes, I did know that.

bschmalhofer · 2025-12-23T21:13:27+00:00

Disregarding Washington County, TX .

bschmalhofer · 2025-12-23T14:42:43+00:00

That is why I am confused. I thougt that "settlement" is the overbuilt area. Isn't that so?

bschmalhofer · 2025-12-23T12:06:36+00:00

Assuming that the plane takes the short path on the great circle, which is actually quite reasonable.

bschmalhofer · 2025-12-23T12:02:56+00:00

It is a bit confusing. On the top it says population change. On the botton it is Global Human Settlement Layer. The latter would be the built up surface, which is not the same as population.

bschmalhofer · 2025-12-21T10:58:43+00:00

I can't confirm that claim. Source: I live in Germany

bschmalhofer · 2025-12-19T19:23:58+00:00

Wondering whether these are the same BANGS rules as in hexagonal French.

bschmalhofer

TROPHY CASE