Correct. A few hours freeway/highway drive is "not too far".
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What continent are you from?
- Thread starter MD Stingray
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As a software engineer, I dived into XenForo add-on documentation, but then I remembered these:
As for the OP's request, originally from a country in Asia that view itself as part of Europe.
Currently at CT, USA, NA.
Actually from Atlantis, but moved to North America when we sank below the waves.
Pbassmanca
In the pocket n' thumpy. So woody, so greasy...
Come back in about the same time from now, and it will also be all back onto a single island called Pangea Ultima, surrounded by the Pacific Ocean. If by a miracle there are any humans left, I am pretty sure they will be showing off their artificial labels to each other, “Oh, I am South-Pangean”... “perhaps we should build a wall to keep these nasty central-Pangeans out of here”....I just hope that by then Pangeans believe the Earth is a sloghtly flattened sphere and that there is a large music city called Pastorius.
Most of Polynesia sits on the Pacific plate. You could consider that area to be a largely submerged continent."Where are you from?" is a simple question that is hard for some of us to answer simply.
I answered Europe on the assumption that the question is "where do you (usually) post from?" rather than "from where do you originate?"
That Zealandia thing is a new one. I still think it's hilarious that it came out of an oil-inspired attempted land-grab, which backfired a bit. It's been confirmed that yes, it's genuinely a continent that we've only just noticed. OTOH, there's a conspiracy theory that Australia doesn't exist, and NZ is often missing from world maps, so methinks it'll take a while to get some traction.
Oceania could be a better bet. And just in case we have somebody lurking from that region, where does Polynesia fit in here?
New Zealand was previously thought to straddle the Australian and Pacific plates. I'm not sure about the status of the Zealandia plate.
The subcontinent is not part of the Asian continent.
Australia is not an island. (Whereas Greenland is an island). Australia is an isolated continent, but not the only country on the Australian plate.
There are also portions of the the Pacific and Atlantic plates which stick out above the waves. For the time beingYou left out the largely submerged but still very real continent of Zealandia.
No joke. New Zealand and New Caledonia are on their own continental plate. Which makes them fully qualified under the existing scientific definition for Zealandia to be named as the eighth continent.
Let’s have TB be among the earliest to give it recognition as being one.
I had no other valid choice. And since a large portion of Antarctica is New Zealand territory, Antarctica it is.I smell a liar. I am finding it hard to believe that Antarctica is tied with Australia and beating out Africa.
Pbassmanca
In the pocket n' thumpy. So woody, so greasy...
Canada: 9.98 million square kilometres.
Population: 35.15 million people.
Summary:
"A giant, Northern, mostly uninhabited wilderness that remains cold and frozen from October to May. We live in a freezer / refrigerator for 7- 8 months a year. The rest of the time it fluctuates between pleasantly warm and unbearably hot and humid. We produce an overabundance of foods, and a bevy of matchless fermentations.
There are 3 "large" cities in this expansive domain. Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. Beyond that, a network of small cities, towns and villages strech 5,514 kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean across land to the Northern Pacific, creating a sense of binding connectivity that exists more as a willful political and philosophical construct than a natural reality. We are free here. Free to think and speak as we wish regardless of whichever government happens to temporarily occupy our houses of political power. We collectively choose them as representatives bound for a time to serve as administrators for our collective good. The state exists to serve the people. We do not exist to serve the state or its minions. Indigenous people's have been here for more than 10,000 years. The rest of us, for the blink of an eye. Our life is good here. For many of the Indigenous people, things are not good however. Thus, a small and yet ancient minority of those here live in a state of chronic and unacceptable deprivation, which presently unaddressed stands as a dark stain on our collective conscience. I felt that these facts should be mentioned.
Hopefully most of you who haven't had the chance, will come for a good visit or perhaps a permanent stay. All around, it is very good here and there's more beautiful people and places to see and experiece than I'll ever be able to take in, in my lifetime..... 
Population: 35.15 million people.
Summary:
"A giant, Northern, mostly uninhabited wilderness that remains cold and frozen from October to May. We live in a freezer / refrigerator for 7- 8 months a year. The rest of the time it fluctuates between pleasantly warm and unbearably hot and humid. We produce an overabundance of foods, and a bevy of matchless fermentations.
There are 3 "large" cities in this expansive domain. Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. Beyond that, a network of small cities, towns and villages strech 5,514 kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean across land to the Northern Pacific, creating a sense of binding connectivity that exists more as a willful political and philosophical construct than a natural reality. We are free here. Free to think and speak as we wish regardless of whichever government happens to temporarily occupy our houses of political power. We collectively choose them as representatives bound for a time to serve as administrators for our collective good. The state exists to serve the people. We do not exist to serve the state or its minions. Indigenous people's have been here for more than 10,000 years. The rest of us, for the blink of an eye. Our life is good here. For many of the Indigenous people, things are not good however. Thus, a small and yet ancient minority of those here live in a state of chronic and unacceptable deprivation, which presently unaddressed stands as a dark stain on our collective conscience. I felt that these facts should be mentioned.
Hopefully most of you who haven't had the chance, will come for a good visit or perhaps a permanent stay. All around, it is very good here and there's more beautiful people and places to see and experiece than I'll ever be able to take in, in my lifetime.....
Pbassmanca
In the pocket n' thumpy. So woody, so greasy...
Same with Australians unless you’re indigenous. If you go back far enough we’re a lot more related than you’d first think. We’re just a big pot of genetic soup - no such thing as a pure race but let’s not go there. Brotherhood of man and all that you know - citizens of the Earth. That’s gonna get more and more relevant as time goes by.
