that one green dot just north of venezuela appears to be bonaire (dutch). the other caribbean green dots are too crowded for me to make out, but they're *not* dutch
also curious that hong kong and macau are included
― mookieproof, Sunday, 5 May 2024 00:38 (four months ago) link
I was thinking signatories to an Antarctic treaty or something but that doesn't check out. Must be something regulatory though, given how the overseas territories of a country all line up.
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 5 May 2024 01:17 (four months ago) link
I'm guessing some sort of environmental regulation.
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 5 May 2024 01:30 (four months ago) link
Or banking regulations? It seems neither Isle of Man or the Channel Islands are green. Another oddity: Estonia and Latvia are green but Lithuania isn't.
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 5 May 2024 02:28 (four months ago) link
None of the guesses are even close so far.a clue: green means not
― StanM, Sunday, 5 May 2024 04:52 (four months ago) link
side of the road people drive on?
― Stevo, Sunday, 5 May 2024 12:50 (four months ago) link
Do they have a side of the road in Antarctica?
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 5 May 2024 13:02 (four months ago) link
Given Stan's hint, I'm guessing the green countries do not have a law discriminating against something that the other countries do. A bit flummoxed by Antarctica though.
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 5 May 2024 13:05 (four months ago) link
Antarctica, remote Island Nations, Western Europe, Australia/NZ, that don't have something.
Most of these places are either isolated, tiny, or likely to have controls of some sort. So its some kind of bad flora/fauna/disease that they don't have
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:39 (four months ago) link
Lithuania and Poland the counter to that, if there are no border checks?
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:41 (four months ago) link
one of those guesses is right, cherry blossom!
― StanM, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:13 (four months ago) link
No rabies?
― emil.y, Sunday, 5 May 2024 18:57 (four months ago) link
CORRECT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_rabies#Rabies-free_jurisdictions
― StanM, Sunday, 5 May 2024 19:16 (four months ago) link
:( sigh
(I got dogbit this past week and have to get the rabies shots starting tomorrow)
― your dog is fed and no one cares (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 5 May 2024 19:31 (four months ago) link
oh no! just do it though, if you get symptoms it's too late :(
― StanM, Sunday, 5 May 2024 19:35 (four months ago) link
Yeah I know. I thought we found the dog but it was the wrong dog. Bleahhhhh
― your dog is fed and no one cares (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 5 May 2024 20:08 (four months ago) link
maybe I was a little bit too fast with my hint, I'm too eager to help sometimes :-)
― StanM, Sunday, 5 May 2024 20:18 (four months ago) link
Ha, nice one, Lithuania.
― pplains, Sunday, 5 May 2024 20:28 (four months ago) link
Woooooo! Thank you cherry blossom & StanM, wouldn't have got there without those prompts but it totally clicked into place and I was reasonably confident in the rabies guess.
― emil.y, Sunday, 5 May 2024 20:55 (four months ago) link
Our bats would like a word with the author of this map
― Nabozo, Monday, 6 May 2024 08:20 (four months ago) link
Part of the reason I was confident is because a few years ago I had to look up whether British bats had rabies (injured bat in the house). The emergency vet just called it rabies, but it's a different strain of rabies virus ("European Bat Lyssavirus") and so the UK can maintain its rabies-free claim (based on what the site I'm looking at right now calls "classical rabies", nice nice).
― emil.y, Monday, 6 May 2024 13:03 (four months ago) link
I remember being told as a kid that France had rabies, but googling it, it seems it's been free since 2001
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 6 May 2024 13:12 (four months ago) link
I think pet passports were introduced at about that time? That would make sense as part of an international push to eradicate it.
― emil.y, Monday, 6 May 2024 13:21 (four months ago) link
Interesting. My doctor described us as free of terrestrial rabies, which is a cool way of saying bats. Apparently no strain of the rabies virus is older than 1500 years. It's originally from bats and shifted to foxes, dogs, skunks etc, which means it's being again contained to the original hosts. And apparently the vaccine served as a base for one of the Covid vaccines, described as a "deactivated rabies-virus Covid vaccine". Which I guess is why you hire people for marketing after scientists do their job.
― Nabozo, Monday, 6 May 2024 13:34 (four months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/FQQnZWE.png
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Friday, 31 May 2024 11:47 (three months ago) link
Light pollution is too obvious probably?
― StanM, Friday, 31 May 2024 13:14 (three months ago) link
hmm. europe, japan, south korea all lit up. usa and mexico around the same. cuba and north korea completely dark. i'm thinking it's some cultural thing like soccer players.
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:19 (three months ago) link
honestly the only thing that makes sense is population density
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:40 (three months ago) link
adam t. is on the right track
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:42 (three months ago) link
Is it misleading that it looks like a map of might lights, then, if it's a cultural thing?
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:48 (three months ago) link
Dhaka isn't lit up, though it might be covered by the country label
The Canary Islands are lit up
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:51 (three months ago) link
South Korea, Java, New Zealand are a couple of locations that seem more lit up than expected imho
― StanM, Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:51 (three months ago) link
Mauritius & RĂ©union, east of Madagaskar, too
― StanM, Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:53 (three months ago) link
South Korea is a hotspot, is it something like mobile phone use?
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:53 (three months ago) link
now pondering what south korea and southeast england have in common
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:54 (three months ago) link
does south korea have Nando's? I know Mauritus has like the most per capita in the world (don't ask how I know)
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:55 (three months ago) link
afaik continental Europe is Nando-less?
― StanM, Saturday, 1 June 2024 19:28 (three months ago) link
I see that Coca-Cola is banned in Cuba and North Korea -- is it Coke sales?
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 2 June 2024 02:55 (three months ago) link
on second thought, the US would be the brightest.
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 2 June 2024 02:57 (three months ago) link
bicycle usage
― mookieproof, Sunday, 2 June 2024 03:14 (three months ago) link
I will accept that as correct. It is a heat map of cycling activities recorded online on the most popular global app.
(Russia and some other countries are not rendered/displayed due to political reasons)
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 2 June 2024 03:26 (three months ago) link
wow i rule
― mookieproof, Sunday, 2 June 2024 03:59 (three months ago) link
you do
― StanM, Sunday, 2 June 2024 05:17 (three months ago) link
south korea getting biz-aycompletely and thoroughly
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 June 2024 19:41 (three months ago) link
https://scontent.fslc3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/456063611_472399819112709_4974670646802839732_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=bKH6qvL8Y2cQ7kNvgGEZ5Tc&_nc_ht=scontent.fslc3-2.fna&oh=00_AYCMERwCj0YIzKHnqgcTpy0kj5GYos_WfxxbeeEy4SFQGA&oe=66CDD2B7
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 23 August 2024 03:01 (one month ago) link
the world, imo
― mookieproof, Friday, 23 August 2024 03:08 (one month ago) link
Episcopalian churches
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 23 August 2024 03:25 (one month ago) link
Whatever it is they don't have them in Australia
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 23 August 2024 03:49 (one month ago) link
this one's a mystery
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 23 August 2024 03:52 (one month ago) link
Some of those dots aren't islands
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 23 August 2024 03:53 (one month ago) link