In case you missed it: America just effectively got much bigger
Hacker News
JANUARY 26, 2024
Two neighboring patches in the Gulf of Mexico add up to 1.9% of America’s ECS: a larger zone in the east (11,800 km 2 , 3,440 sq nmi) and a smaller one in the west (6,300 km 2 , 1,840 sq nmi), together roughly equal in size to Kuwait or Connecticut. of the total. That’s about the size of Hong Kong, or one-third of Rhode Island.
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