Nope. Those are errors and corrections made by 19th-century surveyors who didn't have the benefit of gps satellites or aerial photography.

That's not correct. The borders aren't perfectly straight. This is due to 19th-century surveying errors rather than flat map distortion. You can see the jagged edges if you zoom in close enough on google earth.

That isn't what is happening here. Colorado's border was defined by congress as 37°N to 41°N latitude, and from 25°W to 32°W longitude. That is effectively a trapezoid or at least as close to one that can be drawn on a globe. That shape does have 4 edges as you say. However, when they went to survey the land errors were made. 19th-century surveyors would stray from the legal border by as much as half a mile in some places and would correct it by making a couple of near 90-degree turns to correct this. Congress then accepted the survey boundaries as the legal boundaries making it have more than 4 edges.

Trapezoid would be more accurate, but if you zoom in close enough you'll see that isn't quite true. Those lines have jagged edges.

Some of the dogleg turns in the border are as wide as half a mile. It's several thousand square miles across the entire state. That said, there are no major population centers on the borders.

In the case of Colorado, it does not have any natural boundaries. Colorado and Wyoming are the only states that are like this. Every other state has at least one boundary defined by a coastline or river. All of Colorado's sides are straight lines (at least as straight as a line can be on a globe).

It's actually really easy to calculate the length of the coastline of Colorado.

It kind of depends on which maps. Along the borders, you really need to know where the state line is for things like zoning regulations and legal jurisdiction. In some cases, these jagged edges are half a mile wide.

Not focusing on continuity is one of the things DC actually is getting right. We couldn't have a movie like Joker if they were locked into producing interconnected films.

Would it be possible to extract the lithium from dead batteries?

Williams was sentenced to death. Willfully withholding exculpatory evidence is effectively attempted murder.

The 13th amendment abolished slavery with the loophole that it was legal as punishment for a crime. It's not slavery with extra steps, it's just slavery. Slavery is still legal and widely practiced in the United States.

Isn't that every company in the gaming industry? They are making video games because they know we want to buy them. It would be one thing if they were buying up pharmaceutical companies to gouge prices on life-saving medicine. Nobody needs video games to survive. If you don't want to give these companies your money you don't have to.

Needs the Ducktales moon theme.

I'm not sure that it matters. Every time we audit the Pentagon we find that billions of dollars are unaccounted for and nobody is ever held accountable.

You might not be able to save energy, but not all energy has the same economic value. This has the potential to use cheap clean energy to move energy to places where it is not easily available. This is similar to our problem with water shortages. We don't have a shortage of water, we have a problem getting the water we need to the places that need it.

It's actually much safer for them to eat normal ice cream.

It also has the added benefit of weighting down the center so a man can sit down without having his balls on display.

It's also pretty bad if you're job hunting. I have to answer because I don't know if it's going to be a phone screening for one of my many applications.

No, but she wrote all of her own songs. She's certainly a pop princess.

The guys behind Tommy James.

Madonna did. It's not that unbelievable.

The singularity might not actually exist. It is theorized under relativity, but it doesn't really work well with quantum theory. Unfortunately, we do not yet have a theory of quantum gravity so the singularity is the best model for the interior of a black hole that we have.

It depends on what you mean by enjoy. I think that growling the chorus of an upbeat 80s pop song is hilarious, but I wouldn't say that it's good.

I think this goes beyond costume and into the realm of a parade float.