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The reason all of our maps of the earf are distorted the exact same way
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Date: August 1st, 2026 11:01 PM Author: Swashbuckling institution is because birdshits decided at some point that Greenwich, London had to be at the center of every map, just as Greenwich Mean Time is the timezone by which every other timezone is measured. They made that the neutral reference point for what became known as the Mercator projection. It sucks. It makes Russia and Africa look tiny. It's no more realistic than old maps from the 15th century, really. What you see is totally divorced from actual reality. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2.#50040105) |
Date: August 1st, 2026 11:04 PM Author: electric jade school cafeteria Yeah but a flat map is going to be distorted regardless of where you put the center. So the only real point of this is "in the same way". But seems better to have them all distorted in the same way then all different ones. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2.#50040113) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 11:09 PM Author: Swashbuckling institution They could give us an array of different maps, or use them interchangeably so that people could interpolate their own sense of what the earth looks like. There's no argument for keeping it standardized like this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2.#50040122) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 11:14 PM Author: electric jade school cafeteria If you want to know “what the Earth looks like” what the hell are you looking at a 2D map projection for? At that point look at a globe or 3D model (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2.#50040128) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2026 3:23 AM Author: comical plaza It makes perfect sense that the mapmakers would make their home location the most accurate part of the map you schizoid shitlib. And its not like other people were prohibited from making maps where their location was the most accurate scale. English maps just became the most popular for the same reason the English language has become the most popular international language. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2.#50040268) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2026 10:49 AM Author: Swashbuckling institution tl; dr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2.#50040481) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2026 10:53 AM Author: comical plaza English mapmakers understandly prioritized accurately scaling England and those maps are the standard because the English empire was dominant when the standard was established. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2.#50040487) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2026 11:07 AM Author: Swashbuckling institution "it's realistic" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2.#50040515) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2026 11:09 AM Author: electric jade school cafeteria Map projections are pragmatic instruments, not accurate geometric models (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2.#50040519) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2026 11:11 AM Author: Swashbuckling institution "it's realistic" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2.#50040522) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2026 11:17 AM Author: comical plaza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2.#50040534) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2026 11:20 AM Author: adventurous crusty ape The flat earth map actually isn’t Distorted at all except if you believe the Antarctica fraud: https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/api/singleitem/image/agdm/20577/default.jpg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2.#50040536) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2026 11:22 AM Author: Swashbuckling institution But xo says it's impossible to draw an accurate 2D map of the earf (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2.#50040539) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2026 10:10 AM Author: Motley useless pocket flask Mercator is distorted towards the poles. Not longitudinally. Russia's size is exaggerated not minimized.
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Date: August 2nd, 2026 10:49 AM Author: Swashbuckling institution "it's realistic" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2.#50040479) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2026 5:25 PM Author: comical plaza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2.#50041286) |
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Date: September 5th, 2026 11:31 PM Author: Jared Baumeister shoulda listened to NSAM
https://x.com/SprinterPress/status/2096343751719592214?s=20 |