TIL that the shape of Africa looks like Africa
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes
Submitted 3 months ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to [deleted]
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/472d771d-354b-4b79-9245-527e5cf110ee.webp
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thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
🎵 I note the shape down in Aaafrica!
cRazi_man@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Here’s another fact for you:
ɐɔᴉɹɟ∀ is the same as Africa but upside down
thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 months ago
#🤯
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
YOU FUCKING LIAR!
thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Look man, I’m just quoting something I read online.
If you’re such a skeptic, why don’t you check my source???
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Another fun fact: the pictured orientation of that smaller version of Africa is the only one that you can use to produce that picture.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 3 months ago
depending on how much leeway you have no? you’d turn it a few degrees as long as you have enough space to
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Africa is Australia turned 45 degrees clockwise
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 3 months ago
On the southern hemisphere it is counterclockwise because of the Coriolis force
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Not if the earth is flat!
robocall@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Please spread the word, and together we can stop this!
RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 months ago
It actually doesnt. This ignores the lakes and rivers
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And you really should stick to those, like you used to. None of that waterfall chase folly.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
No way would a Viking be against waterfalls.
Ah this ones a hippy
Jf2540@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Love the use of those lyrics here.
ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol 3 months ago
pulls out ruler
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Goddamn
aggelalex@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Believe it or not, there are shapes for which this isn’t possible, like most letters of the Latin alphabet
Johanno@feddit.org 3 months ago
But if I shrink it enough it won’t matter.
aggelalex@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Only if the letters have thickness. If they are just 2 dimensional lines (which is the minimal information to construct a letter), you’ll have to shrink it to infinity into a single point.
tourist@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m confused
Surely if you can make something smaller, you could make it fit inside anything bigger than it?
Or do I not have the assumptions down?
Do the lines count as “borders”?
So Like Q,R,O,A etc. have “holes” but Z, X, I, L etc are just lines with no enclosure
That would make sense
I thought maybe the rules were if you spray paint a huge L on the wall you could draw a little L on it with chalk when it dries
Sorry , just thinking out loud
Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Assuming we shrink all spacial dimensions equally: With Z, the diagonal will also shrink so that the two horizontal lines would be closer together and then you could not fit them into the original horizontal lines anymore. Only once you shrink the Z far enough that it would fit within the line-width could you fit it into itself again. X I and L all work at any arbitrary amount of shrinking though.
MHanak@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Basically any convex shape has a big/small size configuration in which one doesn’t fit in another
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
I, K, L, T, V, X, Y are all the one’s I think (with I and K depending on how you write them).