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I wonder if Earth was a lost world 15,000 years ago lol that was off topic

felixthecat345 wrote:America is a continent, USA is a country)

Technically speaking, America is two continents.

As for the OP... I suspect the real answer is that the Inuit eventually got tired of everybody else screwing up and took us all over, but since they never bothered to manufacture cars they just kept the factories the way they were.

Happygrunt wrote:*AHEM*

USMC


Mordian Iron Guard


My case, I rest it.

Emperors Faithful wrote:

cadbren wrote:

thegrav wrote:
just saying, Jesus wasn't white..

I always wonder why those who believe Jesus is the son of God would ignore the divine half of his origins. We have no idea what Mary would have looked like, we have little idea what the average person looked like 2000 years ago in that part of the world which was a multi-racial area even then. Add to that the power of god and Jesus could have looked like anyone of any race. To say he didn't look white is as ignorant as saying he did; we have no idea.

What is this, I don't even...

LOL! I was gonna come up with a response, but there seemed to be some anger in it all and I am being silly in general.


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You know, I could get all mathematical and determine how much Continental drift would occur between now and then, which would probably reduce most of this conversation to an argument over math and geological theory, rather than all this who is better than who BS.

Uh, Jesus was a jew. And not white one. He would have looked pretty Arab.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Uh, Jesus was a jew. And not white one. He would have looked pretty Arab.

Were you alive then?

Yes.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Yes.

Well then you can say what you want(although i don't believe you were alive then so I'm not going to take it to heart) but i wasn't.

Do you beleive I died and came back to life after rotting for 3 days?

This topic got serioused fast.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Do you beleive I died and came back to life after rotting for 3 days?

Snowman90 wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Yes.

Well then you can say what you want(although i don't believe you were alive then so I'm not going to take it to heart) but i wasn't.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Do you beleive I died and came back to life after rotting for 3 days?

Haha, NEVER!!!

Necroman wrote:This topic got serioused fast.

I'm not serious. Ever.

Serious is as serious does.

After reviewing the available resources on Continental Drift and Tectonic Plate theory I came to the conclusion that their currently is not a consensus on how much they move a year... however A good Average is 5cms a year. So these are the "facts" we are working with:

1.The Emperor is from Eastern Europe (Turkey).

2.His palace is in China, but the throne room is in Britain.

3.On Average the Contents drift 5cms a year.

4. Jesus is either white, or not white depending on the current theory of relativity, and how angry the white Christian you are talking to is.

For ease of mathematics we will enlist the help of the Commissars to deal with rule four.. swiftly.. and since the Emperor is Chinese.. someone will bill the family of rule four.

So it is 2010, and the Empire was formed at the end of the Age of Strife so lets say todays date in the year 30,000. Assuming that the current idea of countries had somehow managed to endure THAT LONG, and that nuclear war hadn't reformed our entire planet that would mean that the continents all drifted and average of 193350cms or 1933.5 meters, or 1.9335 km (I could give it to you all in feet, but lets face it.. AMERICAN STANDARD IS STUPID and metric wins.) along there present courses.. Meaning that the current locations of all those places above are slightly shifted.

Now to those pesky Himalayan Mountains... Currently Everest is 8850 meters tall and according to some crazy dudes at MIT, Boston Museum, and some other places is growing as well. About 6.1cms a year. So in the year 30,000 Everest would be 25923.9 meters in height about 4923 meters taller than Olympus Mons. Of course Everest and the Himalayas would have moved 1.9335 km and in that case would be a bit bigger.

I will allow the jury to speculate on how this changes anything.

eh..................

thegrav wrote:After reviewing the available resources on Continental Drift and Tectonic Plate theory I came to the conclusion that their currently is not a consensus on how much they move a year... however A good Average is 5cms a year. So these are the "facts" we are working with:

1.The Emperor is from Eastern Europe (Turkey).

2.His palace is in China, but the throne room is in Britain.

3.On Average the Contents drift 5cms a year.

4. Jesus is either white, or not white depending on the current theory of relativity, and how angry the white Christian you are talking to is.

For ease of mathematics we will enlist the help of the Commissars to deal with rule four.. swiftly.. and since the Emperor is Chinese.. someone will bill the family of rule four.

So it is 2010, and the Empire was formed at the end of the Age of Strife so lets say todays date in the year 30,000. Assuming that the current idea of countries had somehow managed to endure THAT LONG, and that nuclear war hadn't reformed our entire planet that would mean that the continents all drifted and average of 193350cms or 1933.5 meters, or 1.9335 km (I could give it to you all in feet, but lets face it.. AMERICAN STANDARD IS STUPID and metric wins.) along there present courses.. Meaning that the current locations of all those places above are slightly shifted.

Now to those pesky Himalayan Mountains... Currently Everest is 8850 meters tall and according to some crazy dudes at MIT, Boston Museum, and some other places is growing as well. About 6.1cms a year. So in the year 30,000 Everest would be 25923.9 meters in height about 4923 meters taller than Olympus Mons. Of course Everest and the Himalayas would have moved 1.9335 km and in that case would be a bit bigger.

I will allow the jury to speculate on how this changes anything.

SCIENCE RULES ALL

You're assuming that the Himalayas are rising linearly. They won't hit that high, Olympus Mons only has because it is a geostationary hot spot.

In geological terms 30k years isn't long at all, most changes will be cosmetic and vastly outweighed by the impacts of humanity. So keep the landmasses themselves broadly the same and just add and substract coverings like plantlife, cities, and water.

i kind of wish there was a picture with a cuppa right now... soo instead i will jsut say this

I have loved reading this thread and for all those beer naysayers you are either children or not married. Being a husband and a parent makes beer better than God!

Ed_Bodger wrote:I have loved reading this thread and for all those beer naysayers you are either children or not married. Being a husband and a parent makes beer better than God!

According to my faith, beer has always been better than any "god"!

Sgt.Roadkill wrote:i kind of wish there was a picture with a cuppa right now... soo instead i will jsut say this

You do realise that tea was taken to Britain by the Portuguese right?

Yeah, but then we invaded the pants out of asia to get more of it - and that makes it OURS. Woo imperialism!

Also, yay for maths!

HOORAY BEER! BOO TEA!

thegrav wrote:HOORAY BEER! BOO TEA!

+1

thegrav wrote:Being about 30% Native American by blood I would have to say that the Brits did win, the Empire is in Fact British. However us American get: Chaos, The Ultramarines(Come on how much more proof do you need.. the almost say "Oorah" in the novels people!(which is an army thing not a marine thing.)), The Space Wolves(Alaska, Native Americans), The Cadians and Catachans( all joking aside America invented guerrilla warfare, and with the exception of the later years of the Vietnam war has used it to great effect.. just think of how we tossed all you Tosser's out in 1776.) The Imperial Navy is run more like America's (Yeah we OWNED you there too.) Oh right and we got to the moon first and are probably gonna get to Mars first too so give us the Adeptus Mechanius, might as well blame about half the other Chapters on us too, and whatever else I left out.

At the end of the day, any sustaining world government will probably be just that, a world government, just cause the Emperor is form Britain, and looks like Jesus in Power-armor(Most likely the Emperor should be from the Middle-east... just saying, Jesus wasn't white.. ) doesn't mean that all his troops and his vast war-machine didn't come form Britain's fat capitalist cousin!

Oh and a good argument as to how they lost and the Empire is in fact American. It is an Emperor, not a Queen Mum.

I thought the space wolves were Scandinavian.... they all have scandinavian names, & do vikingey things like quaffing ale & pillaging!

somecallmeJack wrote:

thegrav wrote:Being about 30% Native American by blood I would have to say that the Brits did win, the Empire is in Fact British. However us American get: Chaos, The Ultramarines(Come on how much more proof do you need.. the almost say "Oorah" in the novels people!(which is an army thing not a marine thing.)), The Space Wolves(Alaska, Native Americans), The Cadians and Catachans( all joking aside America invented guerrilla warfare, and with the exception of the later years of the Vietnam war has used it to great effect.. just think of how we tossed all you Tosser's out in 1776.) The Imperial Navy is run more like America's (Yeah we OWNED you there too.) Oh right and we got to the moon first and are probably gonna get to Mars first too so give us the Adeptus Mechanius, might as well blame about half the other Chapters on us too, and whatever else I left out.

At the end of the day, any sustaining world government will probably be just that, a world government, just cause the Emperor is form Britain, and looks like Jesus in Power-armor(Most likely the Emperor should be from the Middle-east... just saying, Jesus wasn't white.. ) doesn't mean that all his troops and his vast war-machine didn't come form Britain's fat capitalist cousin!

Oh and a good argument as to how they lost and the Empire is in fact American. It is an Emperor, not a Queen Mum.

I thought the space wolves were Scandinavian.... they all have scandinavian names, & do vikingey things like quaffing ale & pillaging!

I think of them as Native American personally but I can see them being more Scandinavian in nature too, possibly the main idea was to combine several "nature" based cultures that fought and drank too much.

thegrav wrote:

somecallmeJack wrote:

thegrav wrote:Being about 30% Native American by blood I would have to say that the Brits did win, the Empire is in Fact British. However us American get: Chaos, The Ultramarines(Come on how much more proof do you need.. the almost say "Oorah" in the novels people!(which is an army thing not a marine thing.)), The Space Wolves(Alaska, Native Americans), The Cadians and Catachans( all joking aside America invented guerrilla warfare, and with the exception of the later years of the Vietnam war has used it to great effect.. just think of how we tossed all you Tosser's out in 1776.) The Imperial Navy is run more like America's (Yeah we OWNED you there too.) Oh right and we got to the moon first and are probably gonna get to Mars first too so give us the Adeptus Mechanius, might as well blame about half the other Chapters on us too, and whatever else I left out.

At the end of the day, any sustaining world government will probably be just that, a world government, just cause the Emperor is form Britain, and looks like Jesus in Power-armor(Most likely the Emperor should be from the Middle-east... just saying, Jesus wasn't white.. ) doesn't mean that all his troops and his vast war-machine didn't come form Britain's fat capitalist cousin!

Oh and a good argument as to how they lost and the Empire is in fact American. It is an Emperor, not a Queen Mum.

I thought the space wolves were Scandinavian.... they all have scandinavian names, & do vikingey things like quaffing ale & pillaging!

I think of them as Native American personally but I can see them being more Scandinavian in nature too, possibly the main idea was to combine several "nature" based cultures that fought and drank too much.

The Native America spot is taken by the DA.

But I don't like the DA...

Oh well, GW can't please Romans and Trojans. xD

Krauser wrote:Oh well, GW can't please Romans and Trojans. xD

You sir are full of win.

ITT: My country is better then yours because I was born in it.. + some invention.

I also laugh at some of the warped perceptions in this thread..

And I saved that awesome facepalm image..