Subject: left v right lobe was europe v siberia & eupen and malmedy<br/>
Date: Feb 28, 2005 @ 19:42<br/>
Author: aletheiak (&quot;aletheiak&quot; &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1401078271">aletheiak &al<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; searching the entire afroeurasian continent with fresh eyes for <br/>
&gt; the necks of the greatest apparent protrusions of all <br/>
&gt; i am immediately struck by a previously unnoticed but veritable <br/>
&gt; waistline <br/>
&gt; rather than any mere neckline <br/>
&gt; running between the white sea & persian gulf<br/>
&gt; which appears to divide the entire land mass roughly equally <br/>
 </span></blockquote>into <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; 2 such huge & so nearly balanced protrusions that it is hard to <br/>
&gt; tell which is the land mass & which the protrusion<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; call them the asiatic peninsula on the right & the afroeuropean <br/>
&gt; peninsula on the left & dont mind that these names are only <br/>
&gt; approximately exact & that most of the middle east is <br/>
&gt; afroeuropean in this scheme <br/>
&gt; rather than asiatic as you might expect<br/>
&gt; but just behold them as apparent protrusions so primary & <br/>
 </span></blockquote>basic <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; that they might rather & quite fairly be called <br/>
&gt; the left & right lobes <br/>
&gt; of afroeurasia<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; & it would be to these lobes that i would award the gold & silver<br/>
&gt; tho i am not yet sure which lobe is larger & thus would win gold<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>& while i find i am not equipped to make a definitive judgment of <br/>
the comparative land areas of these 2 peninsular lobes<br/>
i do have enough data at my disposal to at least perform a crude  <br/>
trial balance <br/>
in thousands of square kilometers anyway<br/>
which may or may not be sufficient to distinguish the clear <br/>
winner<br/>
as follows<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
left side of scale in ksk<br/>
all africa 30065<br/>
plus<br/>
all europe 9938 less a tenth of russia 1700 leaving 8238<br/>
plus <br/>
the following 13 countries fully transferred from asia<br/>
saudi arabia 1961<br/>
yemen 528<br/>
oman 212<br/>
uae 83<br/>
qatar 11<br/>
kuwait 18<br/>
iraq 432<br/>
jordan 92<br/>
israel 20<br/>
lebanon 10<br/>
syria 184<br/>
armenia 28<br/>
georgia 70<br/>
plus<br/>
3 estimated fractional countries also added by the waistline<br/>
turkey 771 less 5 percent already european 39 leaving 732<br/>
azerbaijan 86 less a quarter 22 leaving 64<br/>
iran 1636 less 85 percent or 1391 leaving 245<br/>
totaling 42993 ksk<br/>
<br/>
& on right side of the scale in ksk<br/>
all asia 44579 less 16 deductions above 4690 leaving 39889<br/>
plus a tenth of russia 1700<br/>
totaling 41589 ksk<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
hmm <br/>
so the balance does appear to fall to the afroeuropean lobe<br/>
& tho this 1400 ksk edge is still not quite a 51 to 49 margin<br/>
all land area has been fully accounted for down to within a <br/>
minuscule margin of 10 ksk<br/>
& tho i could have made a mistake somewhere<br/>
i doubt anyone will ever care enough to try to improved on this<br/>
<br/>
so unless the crowd objects or has anything to add or subtract<br/>
it is gold for the afroeuropean & silver for the asiatic<br/>
& we keep the bronze for ourselves</div>