It’s just the ice wall on the edge of the flat earth. Checkmate, globe-lovers!
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It’s just the ice wall on the edge of the flat earth. Checkmate, globe-lovers!
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And getting smaller everyday
Can we talk about how big that structure is?
About three times the size of Europe it seems, one hell of a building.
and we certainly wont be in a few hundred years lmao.
I mean, show us the whole thing then!
How am I supposed to know how big that is? I don’t see a banana anywhere…
it’s too cold steel wool they don’t have bananas
because it’s smaller than a pixel :)
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
My country holds a claim and permanent population to a portion of antartica.
Many have “claims”. None are valid though.
Yeah but the permanent population is there, sakd claim precedes the treaty.
All are equally valid
How many flags are planted? No flag, no Antarctica. Those are the rules that I just made up.
No bears, tho.
Serious Q: isn’t there actually a lot resources in Antarctica? Or is it just too difficult to set up shop there?
There certainly are, but…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System
This treaty means the entire continent is for science only.
When you say resources what resources are you referring to specifically?
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.
Most planets, and much of our planet, is uninhabitable. This is the threat of climate change. Antarctica is a desert.
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
Big if true
Where Saddam
Long Earth theory.
Wait what? Did we just find Hitler’s secret Antarctica base?
According to this projection, it’s bigger than Africa
That’s the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station.
Nonsense! Did you see how big that thing is? Definitely Hitler!
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
Just look at the map, what more proof do you need?
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.
Mercator maps are lies.
Join the Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality today!
Kalothar is right
It’s also the only continent without a southern coast.
Yeah, because you’ll off the bottom into space
For now. It used to a few million years ago and will again in another few million.
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.
Landsharkgun@midwest.social 3 weeks 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.