Now, I’m not one to make up imaginary tales about undiscovered places. Not very often, anyway. OK, more often than not, but that isn’t the point of this post!
The point is, I thought that all of the countries of this magnificent planet of ours have now been discovered. Yes, I’m aware that there are many undiscovered things on the planet as well, such as species of plants and animals that are still waiting to be found; usually lurking in the furthermost reaches of the world, but there they are. They haven’t been discovered yet, but they are there.
Reports are coming in of a hoard of over thirty thousand roman coins dating from around 240AD have been discovered in Bath, by a team of archaeologists working on a hotel site there. The coins are all fused together, but it is very clear what they are, and they must have been lying there, under the surface, for just under 1800 years, waiting to be discovered on March 23rd 2012.
We have satellites in orbit that can take photos of the inside of one’s living room if the curtains are closed in a split second. We can send particles up a large tunnel that defy time itself (apparently). And we can discover far away planets that are within a habitable zone of their sun, simply by looking at the shape of the sun through special equipment.
You’d think that with all of this technology, all of the countries on Earth would be known by now, wouldn’t you?
Apparently not.
Here’s the proof:
I’m obsessed by stats. OK, maybe obsessed is a bit of a strong word to use, but I like to see where my visitors are coming from every now and then. I have two world map thingies in the column on the right, one that shows the last one hundred visitors, and one that shows all visitors from a time set way back when. I also have to check out the orange map in the dashboard, although, I must say, that helps me to work out where some countries actually are rather than showing me visitor numbers!
I’ve had a look at the visitors from all time map. It shows, when someone is in visitation, a little flag over the country they are visiting from. Although, here is where the mystery is.
Occasionally, I’ll receive a visitor from an unknown country.
An unknown country in 2012. Hardly believable. But look, here really is the proof. Screenshots!
Image A shows the visitor map as it usually looks, without visitors. Image B shows some people in visitation, and look, just off the coast of Africa is a little red dot and a box where a flag should be. That little box is highlighting the unknown country. It is always highlighted in this one place.
I have zoomed in to image B to highlight the mystery marker.
I have a couple of ideas as to where this unknown country may be, although, I am most certainly going to be wrong.
Perhaps, it is highlighting a visitor from a ship, and these sea-faring visitors need to be grouped together in one place for country-stat purposes, and have a whole country created for them.
Or maybe, and this is the really exciting part, maybe, people from the hidden islands within the Bermuda Triangle are now on line, and are registering here on the map, rather than around Bermuda, or where the triangle actually is. (By the way, if you are visiting from within the Bermuda Triangle, hello and welcome to the outside world! While you’re here, have a look at the other blogs on the Blogs I Visit page above as well, you’ll find something that you’ll like! Thanks!)
I have a text list that also states the visitor is from an unknown country, and I’ve included part of it in image C. Or D, if the zoomed in shot of B is now C.
Yes, I know I said I’m obsessed with stats. It doesn’t mean that I’m very good at displaying them meaningfully!
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