But it's not just Egypt and Libya.
Look, they're all over North Africa and the Middle East!
I wonder who put them there.
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But it's not just Egypt and Libya.
Look, they're all over North Africa and the Middle East!
I wonder who put them there.
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The world has become populated nowadays...long time ago,people don't care about the property or any piece of land. Usually rich or upper class people in society had the huge part of it. The lines indicates that people wants power,connection and these things reflects on its society that we are living in today. Wether we like it or not, certain rules and application applies in this issue. It means that, we are in the boundary of a laws that govern the world even before and until today. What had had happened today is just the cycle of the past. It's all connected in a certain point.
No, it doesn't look like these borders on map actually mean something. I checked it from google maps, by thinking, that when there's a border, then there should be some tracks alongside with the border, too.. Since some borderguards would check it, time to time.. To make sure, that it's still there and neighbor country haven't moved it at night.. :P
But there wasn't anything shown on satellite photo. Instead I found there a lot of track crossing the border, following of some.. higher ground.. stronger surface.. or how it's called (dune?). Probably it's a highway of desert :P... But I don't see there any checkpoint.. obviously.. he-he-he. It would be to expensive to keep someone in watch in there at desert. :P
http://goo.gl/maps/YtjD
Hi, Josef!
This is a very interesting fact. Thank you!
Whenever I looked at the African borders in map, I was puzzled with these straight linear borders and I used to have wondered if there were some reasons from the historical perspective. If this is true as 'the borders were drawn by British and French draftsmen who sat with maps and drew the lines of the frontiers with rulers' (Thanks siriA for this!), how did the nations make the actual borders and declare their borders? Are they really the straight linear borders from the one end to the other end?
Dear Josef...hahahaha...I think we have some aliens within. In other words, those lines resembles the ignorance within us. Because why aren't there any lines in Europe for example in Switzerland? The reason is we want those lines and we created those lines..and sometimes we love lines .hahahaha..so the answer is We, the people...
Lines are good because we always have something to fight...or to talk about...hahahahaha...and sometimes, we change lines into walls..then, we can't see anything at all...when you can't see anything, then, you always think that the other side is your enemy..again, you have something to talk about and this time, it causes a big war..then, some will be so proud to be martyr..so, this story goes on and on...
Moral conclusion: Lines are a necessary part of human 's life....
slogan: if there is no line, there is no life!
So, let's construct lines...
hahahaha...
Well, Actually I'm bad at reading a map. I can tell, that the blue one is probably water..
But when talking about borders. Then it's logical, that they want to make them as straight as possible, since it's cheaper that way. Not just that it requires less paint to draw it, but that way it's easier and cheaper also to guard it.
But politicians reasoning isn't usually reasonable, nor is their motive so simple and clear. Therefore, that's hardly a true reason for a border of any country, to be straight.
Usually, they would draw some boots and hooks to that border line, just only in order to show, who's the one who's wearing the pants in there.
Haha.......Aliens! :P
I think everybody knows more or less about those, who have drawn those lines! :D (But the answer is toooo political, I guess).
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