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The video that presents the news about recent earthquake is awful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxbMFgetPw

The mistakes start right from the title

Indonesia is in ruins! Powerful M7.3 earthquake in Jakarta, tsunami warning

No. There is no earthquake in Jakarta.

Now about the news themselves

The M7.3 earthquake struck on Eastern Indonesia

Somehow Jakarta is in Eastern Indonesia

The epicenter was on the Flores Sea

Imagine getting a strong earthquake from 1,705.56 km away.

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The reality is that the earthquake actually happened, but not in Jakarta. It's actually near Kalatoa island, South Sulawesi. (However, Kalatoa island, part of Selayar archipelago, is one of the far south frontiers of South Sulawesi, and it's actually much closer to Sikka, East Nusa Tenggara, than the nearest coast on Sulawesi island. And, yes, it's on Flores sea).

“Is this South America or Africa?”

Hi guys, first post here. This sub seemed to be a good to place to gift people with a take of extreme geographic ignorance.

A few years ago, I was having a rare conversation with my roommate’s girlfriend. She said something about not being very good at geography. To test this, I asked her what sets bordered Virginia. She gave mostly wrong answers, but the best was ‘Philadelphia.’ Yes, ladies and gentlemen, she thought that Philadelphia was a state, and that it bordered Virginia.

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From Wikipedia article of Helong language.

Helong is an Austronesian language, a group of languages spoken in Polynesia, an area north of Australia. Helong belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian languages, placing it among languages totaling over 385 million speakers

!No. It's Lesser Sunda, not Polynesia. Polynesia is much further east in Oceania. !<

I've never seen anyone bring up the biggest, dumbest, plot hole in the movie Pacific Rim. Namely, they tried to build a wall around a damn ocean.

Just a quick recap. Giant kaiju monsters start wrecking cities around the Pacific and world leaders are like "Man, kaiju-fighting robots are expensive. Let's just wall them in instead!". So everyone starts building a wall along the Pacific coastline as if oceans are enclosed by coastlines and not the other way around.

I honestly can't figure out how this ridiculous plot didn't become a meme. Here's a map for reference. What exactly is the plan in the movie? Surround the coast with concrete and hope the things that can swim from Sydney to Anchorage don't go around? Fill in the ocean between Asia, Australia, Antarctica, both Americas, and like 1,000 islands? That's as realistic as building a six lane highway to the Moon.

It'd be great to believe people noticed this but there are a lot of Pacific Rim plot hole call outs on the web (some of which go pretty deep into the minutia) and I've found exactly zero mentions of how it's effectively impossible to enclose an ocean using land. You know what I have seen? Everyone and their mother saying "Lol the robots should have used their sword earlier" as if that's the giant plot hole of the movie. No, not the fundamental concept of world geography, the real inconsistency is the timetable for using a weapon that, I don't know, maybe was experimental or dangerous to use or some other basic handwave.

So I have to ask... does the summer blockbuster going public know what oceans are? Do they think that all ships on the Pacific had to be built there before the Panama Canal? I'd blame the American school system but every single classroom in the country has that same mercator map showing the connections between the worlds oceans in exaggerated emphasis. So I don't know what's going on.