How am I supposed to know how big that is? I don’t see a banana anywhere…
Woaaaaa
Submitted 1 week ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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h3mlocke@lemm.ee 1 week ago
supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 1 week ago
it’s too cold steel wool they don’t have bananas
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
because it’s smaller than a pixel :)
ignotum@lemmy.world 1 week 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 week ago
Long Earth theory.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Where Saddam
Kalothar@lemmy.ca 1 week 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 week ago
Mercator maps are lies.
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Join the Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality today!
jonasw@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Kalothar is right
realitista@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Just look at the map, what more proof do you need?
cobra89@beehaw.org 1 week 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 week ago
and we certainly wont be in a few hundred years lmao.
workerONE@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Big if true
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Can we talk about how big that structure is?
Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
About three times the size of Europe it seems, one hell of a building.
Landsharkgun@midwest.social 1 week 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.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Wait what? Did we just find Hitler’s secret Antarctica base?
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Nonsense! Did you see how big that thing is? Definitely Hitler!
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
According to this projection, it’s bigger than Africa
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 1 week ago
My country holds a claim and permanent population to a portion of antartica.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Many have “claims”. None are valid though.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 1 week ago
Yeah but the permanent population is there, sakd claim precedes the treaty.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 week ago
How many flags are planted? No flag, no Antarctica. Those are the rules that I just made up.
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
All are equally valid
DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 1 week 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 week 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 week ago
When you say resources what resources are you referring to specifically?
DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week ago
No bears, tho.
slingstone@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s just the ice wall on the edge of the flat earth. Checkmate, globe-lovers!
/s
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And getting smaller everyday
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I mean, show us the whole thing then!
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s also the only continent without a southern coast.
veroxii@aussie.zone 1 week ago
For now. It used to a few million years ago and will again in another few million.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 week 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 week ago
Yeah, because you’ll off the bottom into space