• @Mickey7@lemmy.worldOP
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    407 months ago

    Agreed he can be pompous but I think since he’s an astronomer he is making the point that if you were in space and looked at earth you would wonder why are there borders

      • Skua
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        117 months ago

        There are heaps of examples of those that aren’t political borders, though. I live between a river and some mountains. The other side of the river is another county but still the same country, and the other side of the nearest mountains isn’t even another county. Egypt is on both sides of the Nile and also on both sides of the Africa-Asia border, Russia is on both sides of the Urals and the Europe-Asia border (wherever you draw it, if you draw it at all), America is on both sides of the Rockies and so on

          • Skua
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            27 months ago

            No, I’m in Scotland. Isn’t the other side of the river from El Paso across the Mexican border anyway?

            • @WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              17 months ago

              Part of the other side of the river is Mexico, another part is New Mexico, the nearest mountains have Texas on both sides—it just happened to also fit your description. Kind of wild that there is a part of Scotland that has the same unusual artificial and natural barriers.