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nullisland.com

28 points by jtolly710 10 years ago · 15 comments

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dang 10 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11600396

Osiris 10 years ago

It sounded really interesting until I found out that it doesn't really exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island

labster 10 years ago

I'm still trying to figure out the heraldry of their flag. Is orange being used as a metal and gray as a fur? Either way, I'm not liking the design. Because of the similar brightness in colors, if you tried to look at that flag from far away, it might not look like it even exists.

dsr_ 10 years ago

"Africans are not seafaring people."

Citations very much needed, because it looks like this is just plain wrong.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/science/anthro/2001-01-0...

http://indian-ocean.africa.si.edu/

_nalply 10 years ago

The image is that of Mayor Island, an New Zealand island volcano.

http://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/Learning/Science-Topics/Volcanoes...

danso 10 years ago

Is this really the homepage of the real Null Island? Why isn't it on the .null TLD? http://wiki.opennicproject.org/dotNullTLD

  • JoshTriplett 10 years ago

    Probably because people want to actually reach it, so they used a TLD that people already have access to without additional configuration.

    Alternative DNS roots seem amusing, but not even slightly practical.

jimhefferon 10 years ago

Zero Zero Island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Bleep

jheriko 10 years ago

do we realise that so many people will read this and not realise its not real?

misinformation can be amusing, but its also harmful :/

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