Bulgaria and Romania are In. | 100 comments (100 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Woouuuuuudj, but then again I'm more certain about my "half the surface of the Moon" declaration, even if I need to recheck this.

by Alex in Toulouse on Wed Sep 27th, 2006 at 09:56:05 AM EST
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Well, that's wrong too: the Moon's surface is some 150 million square kilometres, almost nine times that of Russia (17 million).

_{*Lunatic*, n.

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by DoDo on Wed Sep 27th, 2006 at 10:55:54 AM EST
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...but it is 4.5 times that of the current EU...

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by DoDo on Wed Sep 27th, 2006 at 10:57:19 AM EST
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Damn damn damn.

by Alex in Toulouse on Wed Sep 27th, 2006 at 11:01:13 AM EST
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Wait a minute!

On Wikipedia it says that the Moon's surface area is 3.793×10^7 km² (0.074 Earths). Or roughly 37 million square kilometers.

If Russia is 17 million square kilometers, then Russia's surface area is close to half the surface area of the Moon after all, no?

by Alex in Toulouse on Wed Sep 27th, 2006 at 03:49:18 PM EST
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Damn damn damn! I don't know where I took the wrong figure from...

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Sep 28th, 2006 at 04:09:44 AM EST
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Well after reading your comment, I thought damn damn damn, but then wondered how I had gotten it so wrong. So I googled "surface area" or "land surface" (can't remember), and found both values on various sites (150 and 37), that's when I realized something was wrong and checked further.

by Alex in Toulouse on Thu Sep 28th, 2006 at 05:40:26 AM EST
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Bulgaria and Romania are In. | 100 comments (100 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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