Maps are fun, so is food.

[JoeP]

Lots more at 49 Maps That Explain The USA For Dummies

Including a bit of psychedelia:



A bit of a I think we knew that:



And this bit of boggling of mind:

[Watser?]

The first one is a good look at what will be under water in a century.

[Dingfod]

Correlation does not equal causation.

[ceptimus]

Lost an hour due to Daylight Saving Time today, and then another half hour or so adjusting all the clocks in the house that don't adjust themselves.



Legend
Areas that have DST
Areas that once had DST
Areas that have never had DST

Map courtesy of this web site

"Only a white man would believe you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom of a blanket, and have a longer blanket." - Apocryphal quote of a Native American after hearing an explanation of Daylight Saving Time.

[Dingfod]

I don't see why any country near the equator would need or want daylight saving time.

[ceptimus]

I suppose if a county shares a lot of trade with another country that uses DST then that is an incentive to also use DST.

It seems to me that nowadays, the arguments for and against DST are finely balanced. The only reasons that countries persist with its use are A) because that's the way they've been doing things for the last hundred years or so, and they don't want to introduce change, and B) to better match other countries that also use it.

If a big country or group such as the USA or Europe were to take the lead and scrap it, then I think other countries would follow suit and it would be quickly scrapped everywhere.

[Dingfod]

I would love for that to happen.

[lisarea]

Maybe this will be something of a silver lining for you, cep: I am always a little extra stupid and gullible for at least an hour or two after I wake up and get myself sorted, and I either didn't know or forgot that you guys did DST on a different day, so I freaked out pretty danged hard right now, thinking we had to do it AGAIN.

[Kael]

Originally Posted by ceptimus

"Only a white man would believe you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom of a blanket, and have a longer blanket." - Apocryphal quote of a Native American after hearing an explanation of Daylight Saving Time.

DST was of questionable value from its inception, but as stupid as it is today I hate that stupid quote even more. Of course, if we stop using DST I'll stop having to see that stupid quote plastered everywhere twice a year, too, so that'll be a win-win…

[Dingfod]

US Historical County/State Boundaries - YouTube

[Dingfod]

Fruit and Vegetable Decomposition, Time-lapse -...

[Dingfod]

[Dingfod]

Hilariously bad maps:





These and 25 more...

[slimshady2357]

Originally Posted by Dingfod

Hilariously bad maps:

Sons of bitches didn't just give you guys Canada, but Mexico, Greenland and Iceland too!

[Dingfod]

This is a lightning strike density map of the Lower 48 states in the US. Florida for the win.

Real-time lightning map




Also hurricanes:

[Watser?]

I think it's pretty clear from this map who God actually hates.

[Janet]

I really missed thunderstorms when I was going to college in California.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Watser?

I think it's pretty clear from this map who God actually hates.

Could it be that a greater frequency of "acts of god" cause a greater belief in "God"?

[Watser?]

That seems likely. Jamaicans for instance believe in fairly large numbers that God will punish sinners. In my opinion the total destruction of the infamous pirate's nest Port Royal by an earthquake in 1692 may have had something to do with that.

[Dingfod]

Originally Posted by Janet

I really missed thunderstorms when I was going to college in California.

My niece, 14 or 15 at the time, came to visit us here in Oklahoma in 2000. She had been raised from age 5 in Eugene, Oregon. My mom and dad drove her and my youngest daughter out to their house near Ames, Oklahoma during an intense electrical storm, lightning striking nearby repeatedly. She was totally terrified. My daughter, who was at home alone when she had to take shelter from a tornado just a month earlier, not as much. She has only been back once since then.

[Angakuk]

I recall my first significant experience of a thunder storm/electrical storm. It was in Parker, Arizona and I was 14. It was awesome and exhilarating. Lightning bolts crisscrossing the sky overhead. It was at night and it was like the whole sky just cracked open. I loved it.

[Janet]

I was raised to completely love thunderstorms. My mom has always loved them so she passed it on to us. I have vivid memories of the night our house got hit by lightning. We had all just gotten home from something or other. My mom, sister Sharon and I were lined up on the TV room couch, kneeling to look out the big windows in that room and watch the storm. It was obvious it was close and we were counting after the lightning when there was a bolt and a crack of thunder at the same time that was so loud I almost fell backwards off the couch.

We all knew it was close and when my brother Mike opened the side door to try and see where it hit, he saw smoking bricks on the driveway. My brother Barry caught a little of it because he was listening to records and it arced from the tone-arm of the turntable to him. No one else got shocked at all. It hasn't dimmed any of our love for thunderstorms one little bit.

[Dingfod]

Counties in USA mapped according to land area and property values looks like cancer.

[Dingfod]

[Dingfod]