What plate is it on?
Well, at least it’s not a trout made of white chocolate!
So who says i can’t have a comfortbot in my bunk? Massaging my back and my feet, singing sweetly, bringing me REAL chocolate to cheer me up, then going out to brutally murder any enemies on my list? Besides, unless I missed something, I’m the only one who has even addressed the Kerguelen option, though 7 other people voted for it.
What about TriPolar’s heart? And RTFirefly’s courage? And where’s Eve, the good witch of New York?
Yo’ mama’s.
What’s your boundary for distinguishing major and major tectonic plates?
Comfortbots don’t murder people you want murdered. They murder people you need murdered. As for why you can’t have one in your bunk: it’s a credit issue. No one cares which sort of chocolate you prefer, though.
I have TriPolar’s heart, though he may not have realized it yet. RTFirefly’s courage is another issue entirely.
You can keep it. Never did me much good.
I went with what I’ve been taught : 6. South and North America are one and the same.
(objectively Europe and Asia should be one, though)
On the other hand, Pluto definitely isn’t a planet. I was fed crap when I was young, but I since came to my sense.
That’s not a new one. That’s what is generally taught in Europe.
If I may ask, where were you taught that?
ETA: I understand the rationale, though I don’t agree with it. I’m just wondering.
My preferred option for most contexts isn’t in your list –
SIX: N America, S America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Antarctica.
If the context is about humans, it’s usually FIVE (same list, without Antarctica).
I was taught to include “Oceania” (for Australia and Pacific islands), but that’s usually silly, IMHO.
I know the Europe-Asia boundary is rather arbitrary, but it’s still a useful distinction in most situations.
Why omit Australia?
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You misspelled “completely.” Can you explain how chopping Eurasia in half – which involves asserting that the mainlands of Turkey & Russia are both in two continents – is “useful”?
I’ve of heard of it as being common among South Americans.
But, I mean come on. Fuck Panama.
I don’t have time to fuck everyone in Panama today. Plus I insist on only fucking adult women. Silly of me, I know.
I went with Eurasia. But I think that any system that calls Europe a separate continent has to do the same for India.
Well, looking at the map, I count eight geophysical continents:1. North America
2. South America
3. Africa
4. Eurasia
5. Arabia
6. India
7. Australia
8. Antartica
I ignore continental plates that are mostly submerged.
In terms of cultural “continents”, this map is grossly reasonable:1. North America
2. Latin America
3. Sub-Saharan Africa
4. Middle East
5. Europe
6. Central Asia
7. South Asia
8. East Asia
9. Southeast Asia
10. Oceania
Continents are OK, but less important than navigable trade/culture areas, which in a seafaring culture can easily cross waters and be stopped by mountains or deserts.
And for ecologists, biogeographical regions are where it’s at.
But if you’re all that hung up on connected landmasses, the answer is both six (two Americas, Eurasia, Africa, Oz, Antarctica) and four (Americas, the “Old World,” Oz, Antarctica).
YMMV, but Australia barely feels more like a really big island to me, than a continent. Maybe it’s partly because, in my mind, “continent” is a bigger category than “country,” so any continent should not be coterminous with any single country.
As for dividing Eurasia, in most contexts it’s useful to use a definition of “continent” which represents a compromise between a purely physical sense and a more human-history-and-current-reality sense.
I agree Australia is too small, but not for any really good reason. I don’t know where the size cutoff should be, but it does seem like just an island to me also.
As for Eurasia, it’s either Africa too, or the meaning of continent is just arbitrary. It’s fine with me if it’s just another arbitrary classification, but then there are just 7 continents because it’s the most common arbitrary set.
By ignoring the great middle of the “Eurasian” continent, & in fact confusing definitions such that by definition it doesn’t exist, Western Europeans pretend that the dozens of nations conquered by Russia don’t count because they aren’t really there.
Sort of like how many Europeans don’t count South America as even existing, so their Americas policy is entirely through engagement with* el Norte,* and they don’t have to think about oppressed South American nations.
Fuck if I know. I don’t even know whether to count Antarctica anymore.
In France.