Kraichgauer
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06 Oct 2018, 4:30 pm
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06 Oct 2018, 5:14 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
I voted American Samoa. Because what the heck? It's close to Hawaii.
They produce a lot of great pro wrestlers.
And I bet they have a lot of great places for tourism like most of the Pacific Islands.
Tourism is a very profitable business.
Perhaps American Samoa could be annexed as a new part of Hawaii?
Wouldn't Hawaii have to go back to being it's own country in order for that to happen?
American Samoa is 2600 miles from Hawaii (closer to Australia than to Hawaii).So I don't think that merging them as states would work. Would be like making LA a county of New York state.
Yeah but they are both I the Pacific Islands which is why I suggested it.
06 Oct 2018, 5:46 pm
06 Oct 2018, 6:04 pm
TW1ZTY wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
I voted American Samoa. Because what the heck? It's close to Hawaii.
They produce a lot of great pro wrestlers.
And I bet they have a lot of great places for tourism like most of the Pacific Islands.
Tourism is a very profitable business.
Perhaps American Samoa could be annexed as a new part of Hawaii?
Wouldn't Hawaii have to go back to being it's own country in order for that to happen?
American Samoa is 2600 miles from Hawaii (closer to Australia than to Hawaii).So I don't think that merging them as states would work. Would be like making LA a county of New York state.
Yeah but they are both I the Pacific Islands which is why I suggested it.
Well duhhhh
That's exactly my point.
Its obvious that you naively think that just because they are both Pacific islands that they must be close to each other and that that set up would make sense. You have no notion how vast the Pacific is. The Pacific is one third of the surface area of the planet, and is bigger in area then all of the dry land (all of the nations,all of continents) put together.
06 Oct 2018, 6:14 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
I voted American Samoa. Because what the heck? It's close to Hawaii.
They produce a lot of great pro wrestlers.
And I bet they have a lot of great places for tourism like most of the Pacific Islands.
Tourism is a very profitable business.
Perhaps American Samoa could be annexed as a new part of Hawaii?
Wouldn't Hawaii have to go back to being it's own country in order for that to happen?
American Samoa is 2600 miles from Hawaii (closer to Australia than to Hawaii).So I don't think that merging them as states would work. Would be like making LA a county of New York state.
Yeah but they are both I the Pacific Islands which is why I suggested it.
Well duhhhh
That's exactly my point.
Its obvious that you naively think that just because they are both Pacific islands that they must be close to each other and that that set up would make sense. You have no notion how vast the Pacific is. The Pacific is one third of the surface area of the planet, and is bigger in area then all of the dry land (all of the nations,all of continents) put together.
Well maybe I should have been more clear about the fact that when I made that suggestion I was being a total smart***.
I honestly could care less about turning any of those suggestions into another state.
Kraichgauer
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06 Oct 2018, 6:36 pm
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naturalplastic wrote:
I demand statehood for Jarvis Island!
But only after I move there and become its one and only resident! Lol!
Then I can be its governor, US Rep, and senator, and elector in the electorial college.
Jarvis island is an uninhabited coral atoll island in the south pacific of less than two square miles now run by the US game and fisheries adm.. Fun fact: it, and American Samoa are the only two U.S. territories in the Southern Hemisphere (ie the only two pieces of real estate we have that are south of the equator).
But only after I move there and become its one and only resident! Lol!
Then I can be its governor, US Rep, and senator, and elector in the electorial college.
Jarvis island is an uninhabited coral atoll island in the south pacific of less than two square miles now run by the US game and fisheries adm.. Fun fact: it, and American Samoa are the only two U.S. territories in the Southern Hemisphere (ie the only two pieces of real estate we have that are south of the equator).
Haha good idea! And I think I want to be the first person to turn Antarctica into an actual country.
Kraichgauer
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06 Oct 2018, 7:06 pm
06 Oct 2018, 7:08 pm
Kraichgauer wrote:
Anyone else remember how Newt Gingrich had talked about establishing a moon colony that might become the 51st state? He had been the Republican front runner against Obama till he had spouted that gem of lunacy.
I don't know if this true or not but didn't Trump also say something about the U.S. having a military force stationed in space?
