Comment on xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres

GhostPain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Continents are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria.

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• ddplf@szmer.info ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Honestly at this point you’re just being obnoxious

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  • GhostPain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh shit, found the Europeans. lol

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My mom’s ass is a sub-continent.

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  • GhostPain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s her most appealing feature!

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• Orygin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Interestingly, continents are super complex and there seems to be a continent hidden underneath the Mediterranean. A good YouTube video on the subject

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  • GhostPain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Look at you with facts and shit.

    You get a gold star buddy!

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    • Orygin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why so aggressive? Did someone hurt you?

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      • GhostPain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Where are you from that you think that was aggressive?

        Has humor completely died or do you need an excess of emojis to convey tone?

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• Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So, there’s 4 continents? Abya Yala, Afrasia, Australia and Antarctica

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  • Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Scratch that, there’s three. Australia is just an island with overgrown ego.

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  • GhostPain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s Turtle Islands all the way down, man.

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• BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And you’re a fuckin nerd lmao

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  • GhostPain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s really weird what yanks some peoples chain. lol

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• egrets@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If it were divided by continental tectonic plates, it would be welcome news for Southern Asia and most of the Middle East, but terrible news for New Zealand Iceland, and the Caribbean.

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  • GhostPain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The real problem is how slowly tectonic news travels.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What do you mean? New Zealand is the big winner in that classification, what with Zealandia being one of the biggest masses of sunken continental crust on Earth.

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    • egrets@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In terms of continental plates, as I understand it, Zealandia straddles the Pacific and Indo-Australian plates, so if this map were split by major continental plates, New Zealand’s north and south islands would be split.

      But I’m not a geologist.

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• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re right, at least if you divide continents by being separated by surface water on all sides.

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