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07-12-2011, 05:41 PM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | What's the point of Alaska?
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I was browsing a map today zoomed in fairly tight, it was of the Victoria, BC area in Canada. As I moved around on the map, I got way up north and found the border of the USA and Canada. I zoomed out and realized I was at Alaska.
What is the point of the USA having Alaska way up there? Why can't the USA trade all of that land in and get some Canadian land so the line across the top of the USA is straight? Like where Minnesota is and the line gets jagged, just carry it on straight east all the way out to St. Johns.
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07-12-2011, 05:43 PM
| | | | What's the point of Alaska?
Sarah had to come from somewhere? 
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07-12-2011, 05:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Boston & Arizona, USA | | | Alaska has more strategic value. Also likely more financial value considering the fisheries and the oil reserves.
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07-12-2011, 05:49 PM
| | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | Yeah, but then the USA could get the Grand Banks, and those are no joke in October.
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07-12-2011, 05:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Texas | | | We bought it to watch out enemies of the time. It's a gorgeous land. |
07-12-2011, 05:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: tulsa oklahoma | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TheSuzie  Alaska has more strategic value. Also likely more financial value considering the fisheries and the oil reserves. | you mean the grazing land of the migratory caribou? 
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07-12-2011, 06:06 PM
|  | I'm gonna love and tolerate the **** out of you! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TheSuzie Alaska has more strategic value. Also likely more financial value considering the fisheries and the oil reserves. | Plus we got it at an absolute steal. |
07-12-2011, 06:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Grand Forks, North Dakota | | | It was all part of Seward's (Secretary of State at the time) vision to control the Pacific Ring. He tried to buy British Columbia and instead got Alaska for a steal. People thought it was a dumb idea back then as well.
Like was said above though, definitely a big strategic value.
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07-12-2011, 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Chef FourString We bought it to watch out enemies of the time. | I wave to Mother Russia every time I visit. My friends wave back, I feel all warm and make s'mores.
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07-12-2011, 06:20 PM
|  | Esteemed Nitpicker | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: A Galaxy Far, Far Away | | | I think the US should just annex Canada. |
07-12-2011, 06:22 PM
|  | Expendable | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Shreveport, Louisiana | | | We were trying to make a Canada sandwich. |
07-12-2011, 06:28 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Steel City of Champions, PA | | | The only point of Alaska is so the Discovery and History Channels would have something to make TV shows about. |
07-12-2011, 06:42 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: New York | | Quote:
Originally Posted by cmlax21 The only point of Alaska is so the Discovery and History Channels would have something to make TV shows about. | Which is better than the un-reality dating shows that every other network seems to be hung up on. |
07-12-2011, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by jmattbassplaya Plus we got it at an absolute steal. | Yeah.
7.2 million |
07-12-2011, 08:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: New-brunswick | | | No way you guys are dumping us Sarah. |
07-12-2011, 08:22 PM
| | | | It was cheap, has a &$*( load of resources and it's our own little piece of Canada.
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07-12-2011, 08:34 PM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | Uhhhh ... oil?
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07-12-2011, 08:50 PM
| | I'm gonna love and tolerate the **** out of you! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Wilson Yeah.
7.2 million | 2 cents an acre ain't half bad in my book! |
07-12-2011, 09:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Boston & Arizona, USA | | | We can always use another place for gulag camps...
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07-12-2011, 09:09 PM
|  | Johnny and Joe | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chicago | | Because it's detached from the lower 48 and it's so cold, it's sparsely populated and makes a good place for criminals to hide out. Like Mike's friends who beat the hell out of people. 
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