Comment on Denominator, go Mercator

BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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).

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  • bort@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    huh. so flat earthers were right all along.

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    • ruplicant@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    youtu.be/7ayNc1iXfE8

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• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Antarctica is missing, which skews it heavily towards north

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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)

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• gigachad@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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