1/12/2023 0 Comments Angry gran run radioactive run![]() ![]() Note: the chart splits here into three divisions, each from a choice in question 1. The name changes are the subject of a song, originally by the Four Lads, but now mainly known for the They Might Be Giants recording. Istanbul has been the official name in Western languages since the 1920s (although it's been the native name since 1453), although Western maps often referred to it as Constantinople as late as the 1960s on the flowchart, the choice of name appears to go with the 1920s date. Other names have also been used at various points. Variations on both names go back at least 1,000 years. The largest city in Turkey is famous for having different names at different times or to different people. ![]() ![]() "New Date Range" is the intersection of the Prior Date Range and the Question Date Range for each choice, and is the range determined by all questions hitherto answered."Question Date Range" is the range each answer choice implies."Prior Date Range" is the range determined immediately before the question, carried over from the previous question.(Note there is no recursive loop, any loop is your mistake). Going through the flowchart, taking the leftmost path first, recursively.The title text continues the path where the user has confused a seagull for a map by inquiring if the (presumed) seagull might be a banshee based on the effect of its screams. It also predicts that the area will be infested by radioactive spiders one year later. It predicts that some kind of nuclear incident will occur in Colorado (possibly at Rulison or Rio Blanco nuclear testing sites) in 2022. It is also hampered by several smaller or larger error (see trivia), the biggest being a whole section on I-25 that gives years in the range 1948–1952, before I-25 was built, and coming from a question that fixed the year range to 1960–1961.Īdditionally, (possible) future maps including a "Radioactive Exclusion Zone" in the place of Colorado are mentioned. This, of course, adds to the humorous tone of the comic. The flowchart, although probably effective in eventually identifying the production year of certain maps, is designed in a rather inefficient way, as some early distinctions are already on a very detailed level before some really important distinctions (fictional or non-political map) are made. Randall also mentions US President Jimmy Carter being attacked by a giant swimming rabbit, an event previously referenced as one we must never forget in 204: America. (Except in the Not a Political Map Branch (from "Can you see the familiar continents?" downwards), the comic applies to a political map.) While many of the options are very serious, a few bizarre options reference fictional maps ( Discworld, Narnia, and Tolkien's Middle-earth), or consider that seagulls, staplers, tubas, or breadboxes could be mistaken for a map. The comic consists of a flowchart depicting various ways to tell what era a map is from based on present country borders and land forms. A larger version of this image can be found by clicking the image at - the comic's page can also be accessed by clicking on the comic number above.Title text: Does the screeching chill your blood and herald death? If yes, banshee.
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