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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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hmm.. my anti-bad-web-page software flagged that page as 'dangerous'.
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Pillar of the Community
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588 Posts |
i wouldnt know I have McAfee
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Valued Member
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow...
Typical. Targeting kids with the utopian idea that this will create "world peace"
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This was discussed back when it (briefly) hit the headlines when Russian President Medvedev was given one at the G8 meeting. See old threads here and here. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I wonder how large such a coin would have to be to have all the languages on Earth for each denimination on them. AND all on the front.  |
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United States
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I'm curious. How do you have diversity when the coin is stamped in English?
What idiot didn't fact this before minting:
OBVERSE the "Number 1" icon is repeated five times, representing the five continents. The border inscription reads "Unity in Diversity" and includes the first issue date of 2009.
REVERSE: the Tree of Life, with five leaves symbolizing local tree species that grow in the five continents. The border inscription reads "United Future World Currency".
*cough* I seem to remember there were 7 when I was a kid in school (Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe
North America - South America - Oceania) .. did global warming kill 2 of them off and no one told me?
WHICH ONES DID WE LOSE?!?!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well, Antarctica does not really have much in the way of people on it, and technically, Europe should be part of Asia.
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I'm curious. How do you have diversity when the coin is stamped in English? Part of the globalization agenda these "one world" types usually promote is a universal language - usually English (or a modified form of English) is nominated, since it's the closest we have to a global language at the moment. Quote:
I seem to remember there were 7 when I was a kid in school (Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe
North America - South America - Oceania) How many continents there are depends largely on who's doing the counting, and why. The number varies from as low as four to over a dozen. This is partly because the word "continent" is somewhat vaguely defined. Five (inhabited) continents is the usual reckoning in Europe. The five Olympic rings symbolize this, as do the five points on the communist star (used on the flags of most Communist regimes), symbolizing the desire to spread communism to all five continents. Wikipedia summarizes the debate well. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I hope they hire coin designers from Canada or Austrailia. Looks like the coin pictured came from the US mint  |
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United States
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okay, 5 inhabited continents... I know Antarctica is not inhabited. Which of the other 6 would be considered uninhabited?
N. America has 528,720,588 people
S. America has 385,742,554 people
Europe has 731,000,000 people
Africa has 1,000,010,000 people
Oceania has 38,894,851 people
Asia has 3,879,000,000 people
I mean Oceania has the fewest, but we might tick off a lot of Australians if we tell them that their country is uninhabited.
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I mean Oceania has the fewest, but we might tick off a lot of Australians if we tell them that their country is uninhabited. I think the Wikipedia link from Sap summarizes it quite well. It is not a matter of excluding anyone, but a matter of combining Europe and Asia (Eurasia) or the Americas (North and South). |
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United States
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It is just silly, I think there should be a unified theory for definition of a Continent. I like having 7
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I think there should be a unified theory for definition of a Continent. Just like there should be a unified world currency?  The problems in creating them both are similar - overcoming regional preferences and prejudices and deciding whose "definiton" will be the "real one". Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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No, I'm talking about science. The Speed of light is constant; the temperature of boiling water is the same all over the world. I think that the geologic community needs to come up with a more precise definition of the word continent.
And I'm sure there was some group of people that were all about the Planet Pluto but then astronomers said that Pluto was no longer a planet. Science changed things all over the world without changing the world or the relationships between countries.
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Posted 12/29/2009 11:54 pm
