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With large wings and a good run up humans theoretically could acheive take off and flight
on Saturn's moon Titan.
This is due to the thick atmosphere and low gravity there.
 

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Procrastinator35 said:
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Monaco (/ˈmɒnəkoʊ/; French pronunciation: [mɔnako]), officially the Principality of Monaco (French: Principauté de Monaco), is a sovereign city-state and microstate, located on the French Riviera in Western Europe. France borders the country on three sides while the other side borders the Mediterranean Sea.
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On Monaco, if you lined it's roads with all the cars registered in Monaco they wouldnt all fit. In other words, Monaco has more cars than space on it's roads.
 
I looked up that Baarle-Nassau place. lolwtf is this. Good job by the medieval treaty writers.

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Apparently the Belgium part is full of firework shops because the laws are different in each country.
 
The border of India and Bangladesh used to be like this, until a recent changeover of land. It's still not perfect though.

The Tomb of Suleyman Shah is located inside the boundary of Syria but is patrolled by Turkey. The tomb was recently moved closer to the border, so it would be easier to control.

Dubrovnik, Croatia is on mainland Europe (just like Croatia), but is not connected by land to the main part of Croatia. There is a 5km section of coastline that belongs to Bosnia and Herzegovina that separate the two parts of Croatia
 
Bir Tawil - the only terra nullius land outside of Antarctica. It's a piece of land situated between Egypt and Sudan in Africa, that neither country claims. This is because Egypt believe that the 22nd parallel is the border (1899), while Sudan think that the UK drawn administrative boundary (1902). This has resulted in a landlocked area known as Bir Tawil to be unclaimed, and the area known as the Hala'ib Triangle is claimed by both nations.
 
akkaps said:
The border of India and Bangladesh used to be like this, until a recent changeover of land. It's still not perfect though.
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Yeah I saw youtube vid on this a couple years back. Insane how messed up it was.

It was also interesting seeing how rivers moving and changing trigger border disputes as old borders are defined by rivers. Serbia and Croatia have this problem, as do the US and Canada and several US States.
 
akkaps said:
Bir Tawil - the only terra nullius land outside of Antarctica. It's a piece of land situated between Egypt and Sudan in Africa, that neither country claims. This is because Egypt believe that the 22nd parallel is the border (1899), while Sudan think that the UK drawn administrative boundary (1902). This has resulted in a landlocked area known as Bir Tawil to be unclaimed, and the area known as the Hala'ib Triangle is claimed by both nations.
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Should probably clarify why this is:

1) Egypt claims the 1899 border (a straight line on the 22nd parallel), that means the Hala'ib Triangle (a much bigger piece of land on the Red Sea) becomes part of their sovereign state and Bir Tawil (a small triangular piece of land with nothing in it) falls under Sudan. For obvious economic reasons, this is the argument Egypt have persisted with.

2) Sudan claims the 1902 border, that means the Hala'ib Triangle becomes part of their sovereign state and Bir Tawil goes to Egypt (instead of a line on the 22nd parallel, the British created a squiggly line that gave Hala'ib to Sudan and Bir Tawil to Egypt for colonial reasons). For obvious economic reasons, this is the argument Sudan have persisted with.

3) Ergo, any nation that claims Bir Tawil must logically give up their claim to the bigger, more lucrative Hala'ib Triangle. Hence terra nullius. BigFooty should claim it for themselves and we can have blackjack and hookers and s**t.
 
Scotland said:
They'd have to get through Lithuania and one of Latvia/Belarus to get there, so it's a little harder.
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Transnistria is also interesting while we're on the topic. A tiny sliver of land in eastern Moldova, ethnic majority being Russian and sees itself as part of Russia (although the Moldovan central government ain't too pleased with that) - but it is bordered only by Ukraine and Moldova, and quite far from Russia. Expect it to be the next flashpoint in the region as the semi-autonomous state angles for independence.
 

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Forward Press said:
As always, we can blame the Poms for this one.
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A lot of Indians blame the Poms for leaving when they left, saying should have left India 20-30 years after they actually did. They just got up and left the country in pieces (physically and emotionally)
 
akkaps said:
A lot of Indians blame the Poms for leaving when they left, saying should have left India 20-30 years after they actually did. They just got up and left the country in pieces (physically and emotionally)
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Uganda also....With Idi Amin the door prize & farewell parting gift.
 
Procrastinator35 said:
Uganda also....With Idi Amin the door prize & farewell parting gift.
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India was left with Gandhi being able to choose the first PM, he picked Nehru, who decided to split the country by religious groups. And therefore we got Pakistan, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh after Independence from Pakistan) and India. Plus the war torn Kashmir that both India and Pakistan think should be theirs. While at the same time, the UK decided to hold onto Burma and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), which could have also been part of India if things had gone differently.

Include the poverty and disease, and the result isn't the best.
 
akkaps said:
India was left with Gandhi being able to choose the first PM, he picked Nehru, who decided to split the country by religious groups. And therefore we got Pakistan, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh after Independence from Pakistan) and India. Plus the war torn Kashmir that both India and Pakistan think should be theirs. While at the same time, the UK decided to hold onto Burma and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), which could have also been part of India if things had gone differently.

Include the poverty and disease, and the result isn't the best.
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Always loved Ghandhi's answer to the question: What do you think of Western Culture/Civilization?...."I think it would be a good idea."....LOL.
 
Forward Press said:
Transnistria is also interesting while we're on the topic. A tiny sliver of land in eastern Moldova, ethnic majority being Russian and sees itself as part of Russia (although the Moldovan central government ain't too pleased with that) - but it is bordered only by Ukraine and Moldova, and quite far from Russia. Expect it to be the next flashpoint in the region as the semi-autonomous state angles for independence.
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Just on this, there are a few other former Soviet nations with little breakaway states, known as post-soviet frozen conflict zones. Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan which is populated by an Armenian majority. The Armenians see themselves as a separate nation but the Azerbaijani government aren't all that keen on that and it's resulted in a few conflicts, particularly the Nagorno-Karabakh war in the 90s. Similarly, Georgia has two, Abkhazia and South Ossetia whose ethnic minorities (Abkhaz and Ossetians) wanted to breakaway from Georgia after the fall of the Soviet Union but Georgia have been willing to take force on them. Both zones have Russian support and was a catalyst for the Russia-Georgia war as well as separate conflicts within each region.
 
Forward Press said:
On the Sporcle quiz, I regularly get 185+, occasionally all of them.

/brag

There are three countries with Saint in their name, and all are located in the Caribbean.

Borneo is the only island in the world with three countries on it.

The Panama canal runs from southeast to northwest.

There are two double landlocked countries in the world (countries with no ocean access which are surrounded by countries with no ocean access) - Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan.
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akkaps said:
I use JetPunk, but run out of time. My weakness is in Africa.

St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia.

I knew about the Panama Canal, and it's not on the southern border of Panama like most people think.

The double landlocked one is interesting, didn't know that.
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i didn't even know sovokia was even a country until avengers 2.:oops:
 
There are six countries which are enclaves (surrounded by only country). Two of those are in Italy (San Marino and Vatican City) with the others being Monaco (surrounded by France), Gambia (surrounded by Senegal), Brunei (surrounded by Malaysia) and Lesotho (surrounded by South Africa).
 
roo2macca said:
There are six countries which are enclaves (surrounded by only country). Two of those are in Italy (San Marino and Vatican City) with the others being Monaco (surrounded by France), Gambia (surrounded by Senegal), Brunei (surrounded by Malaysia) and Lesotho (surrounded by South Africa).
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You forgot Ireland, Portugal, South Korea and East Timor. Maybe some others I'm forgetting too, a few countries have only one land border with one country.
 
roo2macca said:
Just on this, there are a few other former Soviet nations with little breakaway states, known as post-soviet frozen conflict zones. Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan which is populated by an Armenian majority. The Armenians see themselves as a separate nation but the Azerbaijani government aren't all that keen on that and it's resulted in a few conflicts, particularly the Nagorno-Karabakh war in the 90s. Similarly, Georgia has two, Abkhazia and South Ossetia whose ethnic minorities (Abkhaz and Ossetians) wanted to breakaway from Georgia after the fall of the Soviet Union but Georgia have been willing to take force on them. Both zones have Russian support and was a catalyst for the Russia-Georgia war as well as separate conflicts within each region.
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You could write a whole thesis on these breakaway states post-Soviet Union. Chechnya being a big one too.
 
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