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- LeviTheSmith, on 08/28/2008, -19/+85Because shut your mouth and do what your mother says that's why
- ddyzerod, on 08/28/2008, -3/+63Why is Iceland covered in green?
- Murrabbit, on 08/28/2008, -5/+46Because, and this may come as something of a shock, it is rather cold there.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -6/+42Ummm maybe because its cold there?
- techkyle, on 08/28/2008, -4/+22I thought it had something to do with vikings. Something like they didn't want people to flood to the land they discovered, so they called it "Iceland" and called the icy bit "Greenland".
That way, all the uber-noobs would flock to Greenland, wtf at all the snow, and then leave. Meanwhile, the leet vikings would be in Iceland ROFLing at their own ingenious hax. ...Then they'd have LAN parties and get all the super-roxor ladies.
Totally. - nobelief, on 08/28/2008, -0/+18that's Iceland. Greenland is ice.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -2/+16Pirates / Vikings wanted to trick people to go to greenland and die, instead of going to iceland where they were. Thats why they are named backwards.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+11shhh, they'll take away my grant money
- Zipko, on 08/28/2008, -0/+10Give me a 'P'
- anagoge, on 08/28/2008, -3/+13Better than being covered in bees.
- Kiddibeik, on 08/28/2008, -0/+10No.
The Inuit name for the country is actually "Land of the people".
The name "Greenland" is arguably the world's first marketing gimmick, named so to lure people into moving there. - stealthc, on 08/28/2008, -5/+14Global Warming?
- AussieVesti, on 08/28/2008, -2/+11I'm simply going to say that latitude would have a big part of it.
- YuriSakazaki, on 08/28/2008, -3/+11God help me, I laughed pretty hard. I'm digging this as hard as I can.
- Jashobeam5, on 08/28/2008, -3/+11Dugg because you know that Pirates and Vikings were real people not just sports team names. The naming of the places was really a great PR campaign.
- 4rp4n3t, on 08/28/2008, -0/+7Give me an 'F'...
- dehnomac, on 08/28/2008, -0/+6West Greenland is covered in farm ruins from 1000 years ago, abandoned because it got too cold to farm. Hopefully, if this Global Warming rumor is true we will have the same warmer weather as we did 1000 years ago...in about a 1000 years.
- gasoline, on 08/28/2008, -0/+6No.
- Meocross, on 08/28/2008, -0/+6Give me an 'A'...
- Stradenko, on 08/28/2008, -1/+6Are you sure they didn't name it "Whine-land?" Because that's what it has become.
- nitemonkey, on 08/28/2008, -0/+5Greenland is ice, and Iceland is nice.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -3/+8Greenland is an Anglicization of the Inuit name for the country.
Nothing to do with #00FF00 - LeviTheSmith, on 08/28/2008, -3/+7Um, I believe I was first
- edebolt, on 08/28/2008, -1/+5Visit Greenland. Take a dog sled and hunt Reindeer. Nibble on dried cod and whale accompanied by whale blubber. Other foods include dried ‘ammassat’ (a small herring-like fish in the salmon family called capelin), dried reindeer meat and whale skin with blubber, called ‘mattak’, which is a well-loved delicacy amongst the local population. Buy real estate now in Greenland before the summer sporting crowd discovers its tranquil beaches.
- NomortaL1, on 08/28/2008, -2/+5lolbster!!
- gamerzworld, on 08/28/2008, -3/+6I blame Global Cooling.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -6/+9I thought Greenland was green.
- Xulfer, on 08/28/2008, -2/+5The Earth was formed less than 10 thousand years ago, remember?
- SheikYabooty, on 08/28/2008, -2/+5I suspect Man-Bear-Pig
- wizbor, on 08/28/2008, -2/+5"...Understanding why the ice formed on Greenland three million years ago will help understand the possible response of the ice sheet to future climate change...."
Wait a minute. Someone was around 3million years ago AND living on that island to give it its name before it all turned to ice? - Nintendesert, on 08/28/2008, -1/+4It's because you're dumb.
- ghank, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3Normally i try to refrain from digging up comments containing hax, leet, and super-roxor, but It's hard to argue logic like yours so .............
- geekchic, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3I blame scary snakes.
- smurfsahoy, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3Wait, let me get this straight...
In order to prove that CO2 causes ice to melt, some researcher ran a study of what happened earlier in the Earth's history when CO2 levels changed, using nothing but a computer model that was programmed based on the assumption that CO2 causes ice to melt?
How did this guy graduate high school? - wizbor, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3lol so how bout showing me a 1million year old map wait ill settle for 1/2million year old map.
- StuTheMeatMan, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3Blubber is such a funny name. I need to eat some before I die. I picture a slightly meat-flavored jello.
- thescimitar, on 08/28/2008, -2/+5I blame Global Badgers.
- Blade2000, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3Same reason Alaska is, it is *****' cold up there!!!!
- cheezintern, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2You don't buy land in Greenland. It all belongs to the residents. You want to build a house? become a resident and get permission. That's all.
- SimonGray, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2Greenland is an Anglicisation of the Danish name of the country (Grønland). The Greenlandic name has no meaning, it just refers to the name of the people living there.
- Meocross, on 08/28/2008, -2/+4Instant Lol, dugg for the lulz
- techkyle, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2I agree. :P
I'm usually not one to write post with said phrases, but it just sort of turned out that way. My most sincere apologies for those who frown on such actions. - Jashobeam5, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2There is a map that shows some now icebound places without the ice there. I saw it on a History Channnel documentary. It proves the ice might be much more recent than we have been led to believe.
- siffredi, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2The vikings named America "Wine-land" (when they went there _500_ years before Colombus), perhaps also an early marketing scheme.
- Rapax, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2wizbor: 1 Million years is such a short time, nothing much would have changed that you'd see on a map. But why stop at a million? Here's a map that's much older:
http://z.about.com/d/geology/1/0/V/J/seafloorage.g ...
it's so old, it's not even written on paper, it's laid down in the rocks themselves. How's that for old? - breakaway, on 08/28/2008, -1/+3Global cooling....? Either way, pool's closed.
- OpenRevolt, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2"deeerrr long means up and down errrr like y instead of x" -- your brain.
Get yourself a map and imagine there are none of those long-i-tude lines.
You will see that there are still long horizontal lines that go up and down the entire map - we call them there things 'latitudes'.
Now look here:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa ...
Notice how the perty colors go left and right instead of up and down. - xsecretfiles, on 08/28/2008, -2/+4I don't get the reference.....
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -2/+4best reason ever!
- ho0ber, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2I was thinking more of a #228B22 myself. I'd be scared if anything was #00FF00.
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