How am I supposed to know how big that is? I don’t see a banana anywhere…
Woaaaaa
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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h3mlocke@lemm.ee 1 year ago
supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 1 year ago
it’s too cold steel wool they don’t have bananas
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
because it’s smaller than a pixel :)
ignotum@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I yeah i see it now, it’s the pixel in the bottom right corner
it’s 3% more banana-colored than the aurrounding pixels, you can’t miss it
Dasnap@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Long Earth theory.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Where Saddam
Kalothar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Uh, antartica is about as wide as the U.S. and about as tall as it is wide.
So, I just feel like I’m being bamboozled here
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mercator maps are lies.
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Join the Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality today!
jonasw@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Kalothar is right
realitista@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Just look at the map, what more proof do you need?
cobra89@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Yeah it’s definitely not a real projection. If Antarctica looked like that (taken top down) then the rest of the continents would not be oriented like that.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
and we certainly wont be in a few hundred years lmao.
workerONE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Big if true
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can we talk about how big that structure is?
Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
About three times the size of Europe it seems, one hell of a building.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wait what? Did we just find Hitler’s secret Antarctica base?
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nonsense! Did you see how big that thing is? Definitely Hitler!
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
According to this projection, it’s bigger than Africa
Landsharkgun@midwest.social 1 year ago
Ok, but that’s unironically a great map for a TTRPG campaign.
I’m thinking Lovecraft. Plateau of Leng and all that. There’s just this huge, impassable land that goes south for what seems like forever. And…things…occasionally wander out of it.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 1 year ago
My country holds a claim and permanent population to a portion of antartica.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Many have “claims”. None are valid though.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 1 year ago
Yeah but the permanent population is there, sakd claim precedes the treaty.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
How many flags are planted? No flag, no Antarctica. Those are the rules that I just made up.
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
All are equally valid
DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Serious Q: isn’t there actually a lot resources in Antarctica? Or is it just too difficult to set up shop there?
UNY0N@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There certainly are, but…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System
This treaty means the entire continent is for science only.
Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When you say resources what resources are you referring to specifically?
DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Not sure but mineables? Im probably oversimplifying because all my knowledge of getting stuff out of the ground comes from games but stuff like metals.
Juno@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Most planets, and much of our planet, is uninhabitable. This is the threat of climate change. Antarctica is a desert.
wahming@monyet.cc 1 year ago
Oil rigs and mines aren’t exactly living off the land. Dropping enough preserved food off to supply a facility wouldn’t be too difficult. The main reason nobody’s doing it is the international treaties involved
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No bears, tho.
slingstone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s just the ice wall on the edge of the flat earth. Checkmate, globe-lovers!
/s
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And getting smaller everyday
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I mean, show us the whole thing then!
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s also the only continent without a southern coast.
veroxii@aussie.zone 1 year ago
For now. It used to a few million years ago and will again in another few million.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are you referring to the magnetic pole switch? That happens every 200-1M years, according to patterns on the seafloor. It’s been estimated that the last reversal was 780,000 years ago, so it actually could be any day now.
With that being said, I doubt that humanity will agree to turn all maps 180° to correspond.
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah, because you’ll off the bottom into space