[time-nuts] OT: At the Flea

Chris Albertson albertson.chris at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 23:07:16 UTC 2011


On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Philip Pemberton <lists at philpem.me.uk> wrote:
> On 19/04/11 20:48, Chris Albertson wrote:
>>
>> The story I like used common terms where they asked people to find
>> things on a world map and 30% could not locate the Pacific Ocean.
>> http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geosurvey/highlights.html
>
> Good grief, that's an easy one.
>
> The Atlantic is the big one between the East coast of the USA and West coast
> of Europe / Africa.
>
> The Pacific is the slightly smaller one off the West coast of the USA and
> East coast of Asia.

Hard to know if you are serious but...
Actually the Pacific Ocean is the Earth's largest feature.  It is
roughly 1.5 times larger then the Atlantic Ocean.  The Pacific is
larger than all of the Earth's land mass combined

That is why it was so funny that so many people could not find it.  It
is by far the largest thing on the map.

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Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California




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