Where the hell does all this come from?

[Tattila the Hun]

Atleast it's pointing up.

I can has a civ-map?

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by onodera

Pakistan is Asia, Myanmar is Asia, but India's not?

No, those two are part of teh Indian Continent.

Srsly, if Europe can count as a continent because it juts out of Asia, is culturally distinct, and is separated from it by a tall mountain range, India is even more so a continent

[Imran Siddiqui]

Europe done sticks out more.

[LordShiva]

But our mountains are higher

[onodera]

Originally posted by LordShiva


No, those two are part of teh Indian Continent.

Srsly, if Europe can count as a continent because it juts out of Asia, is culturally distinct, and is separated from it by a tall mountain range, India is even more so a continent

In Russia, we have two separate concepts: continents, and, um, parts of the world. Six of them in each case.
Continents include Eurasia and two Americas, parts of the world include a single America, Europe and Asia.
India is sometimes called a subcontinent, because it's tectonically separate from Asia, though it pushes really hard to be one with it.
Btw, what *tall* mountain range are you talking about?

[Lancer]

'Scratch a Russian find a tartar'. The Mongols raped their way across Russia...but word is the girls there were really happy to see real men for once.

Hence the high cheek bones.

[Theben]

Originally posted by LordShiva

No, those two are part of teh Indian Continent.

Srsly, if Europe can count as a continent because it juts out of Asia, is culturally distinct, and is separated from it by a tall mountain range, India is even more so a continent

India is a sub-continent. Lesser, if you will. Under, beneath, second-rate, you get the idea.

[snoopy369]

I wonder if, in millions of years, barring human intervention, India will carve its way through Russia/China and split Asia in half?

"India: The Carving Knife of the World"

[Kuciwalker]

Barring human intervention?

I'm trying to imagine what human intervention could have a meaningful effect on that, short of hitting Earth with something the size of the Moon.

[LordShiva]

Maybe if they got everyone in India and China to jump at teh same time

[Q Classic]

Re: Where the hell does all this come from?

Originally posted by onodera
And in the, um, Story of O, the author explicity describes the Russian character as having Mongoloid features. WTF?

Well, Pauline Reage was probably trying to say that the Russian was a bit retarded.

Slow, in other words.

I mean, they did fall for the whole Communism/Stalinism bit. And they couldn't outwit the Germans in the Great Patriotic War. And they seem to swallow Putin's shenanigans.

[Q Classic]

The Indian "continent" is a horrid, overheated, overcrowded craphole that just wishes it were part of the glory that is Asia.

[Kuciwalker]

There are 1.12 billion people in India + 1.32 billion in China. Assume the average person in those countries weighs 70kg (this should be an overestimate) and can jump 2 meters (i.e. translate the center of mass from one point to another point 2 meters higher; this should also be an overestimate). Such a jump would impart ~2750 joules, so all of them jumping once would impart ~6.69 trillion joules.

The Indian plate is moving north at 5 cm/year.

...

Goddamnit. I can't find any data on the mass of the Indian plate, and I doubt I could even get within a couple orders of magnitude with a napkin estimate.

[Wezil]

What if they jump from ladders and other higher places (broken limbs in the name of science)?

[onodera]

Re: Re: Where the hell does all this come from?

Originally posted by Q Cubed

Well, Pauline Reage was probably trying to say that the Russian was a bit retarded.

Slow, in other words.

You've just become an enemy of more than a billion Mongoloids.