Antarctica is missing, which skews it heavily towards north
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BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why is the difference only extremely pronounced in the northern hemisphere? If I understand the math behind the projection correctly, the equator should be true scale, and things should vary more the further north AND south you go.
This image shows the extreme southern latitudes to be almost equal to their true area. Is the image wrong, or am I misunderstanding something about the projection?
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
It doesn’t show Antarctica, but also there’s just more stuff in the far north than the far south (if we aren’t counting Antarctica)
gigachad@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
This map is clipping a good chunk of the Southern Hemisphere. When you include it, you also notice the same distortion:
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Note how it looks like Antarctica (14*10⁶km²) is 1/4 of the globe, even if it’s actually smaller than South America (18*10⁶km²).
bort@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
huh. so flat earthers were right all along.
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ruplicant@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
so they’ve gone full circle (or should I say sphere) and we really inhabit a sphere, just not the sphere the sheeple believe in? that’s amazing
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
And the sphere is specifically large enough so that the curvature is too small to measure. Except every experiment that they’ve done to prove the Earth is flat just ends up proving that it’s a sphere (or close enough) of the size we’re taught in school.
All flat Earthers are fucking stupid
Hupf@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
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