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TIL that Chile, Argentina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Taiwan, Greenland, and the Phillipines are the only countries that you can tunnel through to hit another land mass. All others lead to water. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Am I stupid? If you can tunnel down and hit those other countries, than the opposite should be true, the countries you can drill down to are the same you drill down to from the other side, so that would include Canada and Southeast Asia according to this very map.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The definition I'm using is something like: "more than 80% of a country's landmass is covered by a landmass on the other side"

So china has parts where you hit land, but most of it hits ocean, and so it's not on the list.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

80%? Why this ramdom number? Why not use 1 sigma, 2 sigma or any other terms with more statistical meaning?

And in a previous comment you implied 100% by saying "random point". Here, I made a screenshot of it.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/19474993

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Because Im using rough visual metrics on an image, and not precise numerical analysis on GDAL? Jesus H.