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Denominator, go Mercator
Submitted 10 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 3 hours ago
Smart_Penicillin@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Show this map to Trump. I will not want Greenland anymore.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Acquiring Greenland would move the USA up 2 places in the list of largest countries (past Canada and China). That’s probably why he wants it.
thejml@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
He just wants it ti deflect from the Epstein Files.
tomiant@piefed.social 4 hours ago
It is quick becoming a very important strategic hub in the Arctic due to shipping lanes opening up due to global heating. Greenland is also continuously opening up to natural resource extraction as ice disappears, and they have vast quantities of a lot of very valuable shit under the ground that keeps getting easier to access for the same reason, like rare earth elements, oil, natural gas, copper, gold, zinc, uranium, the list goes on…
Controlling and exploiting that land is a major strategic interest for all the big (and small) powers.
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Wait till he finds out it’s not green at all!
EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
He knows it’s all ice. That why it’s called Iceland.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Greenland: I was in the pool!
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
How can it be the true size if it’s still a projection on a 2d surface? I thought could only see the true size on a 3d globe.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
True size is possible just fine on a 2D surface. For both too large and too small to be even possible there must exist some transitional point where the size is correct.
You cannot have both the size and shape correct at the same time. Having the correct size means distorting the shape, and vise versa. One is the other can be correct, but never both.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
It’s a curved 2d surface
Liz@midwest.social 3 hours ago
It’s a much closer approximation, anyway.
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
Also I just noticed that the borders no longer line up and it looks like there is ocean in between which isn’t the case. So I shows the size more accurately but is not useable as a map really.
gergolippai@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
in summary, australia is fucking big.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
Map Men Map Men Map Map Map Men Men!
tomiant@piefed.social 4 hours ago
So, these men… What is their area of expertise?
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Men map men map men map!
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Is Africa the only one here not stuffing socks down their trousers?
crank0271@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Hmm, so the Mercator projection makes things look larger than they are? I think I’ve got an idea for another use for it… 😏
Pwalabwa@quokk.au 9 hours ago
Is that it?
makyo@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Your penis isn’t far enough north for it to help
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Yet
crank0271@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
All right, well first I may need to see a doctor.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Slightly enlarging something that is microscopic doesn’t change much.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Why is the difference only extremely pronounced in the northern hemisphere? If I understand the math behind the projection correctly, the equator should be true scale, and things should vary more the further north AND south you go.
This image shows the extreme southern latitudes to be almost equal to their true area. Is the image wrong, or am I misunderstanding something about the projection?
gigachad@piefed.social 1 hour ago
lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 hours ago
This map is clipping a good chunk of the Southern Hemisphere. When you include it, you also notice the same distortion:
Note how it looks like Antarctica (14*10⁶km²) is 1/4 of the globe, even if it’s actually smaller than South America (18*10⁶km²).
bort@sopuli.xyz 36 minutes ago
Hupf@feddit.org 4 hours ago
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
Antarctica is missing, which skews it heavily towards north
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 hours ago
It doesn’t show Antarctica, but also there’s just more stuff in the far north than the far south (if we aren’t counting Antarctica)
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 9 hours ago
This just in: projection requires distortion.
sik0fewl@piefed.ca 6 hours ago
Not if you project it onto an oblate spheroid.
huppakee@piefed.social 9 hours ago
There also an interactive version of this, also a bunch of copies (not sure if this is the original, but i believe so): https://thetruesize.com/
marcos@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Did it cut out the European portion of Russia?
mEEGal@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
No, it just can’t be scaled down and somehow kept in place at the tame time
LodeMike@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
Its distorted on the Mercator projection quite a bit because of its width. So the true shape looks very different presented like this.
Hackworth@piefed.ca 10 hours ago
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Interesting how much closer kazakhstan (and by extension, china) is to europe when you see it like this. Like if the red outlines were all smooshed back closely together.
huppakee@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Crossing the globe north to south is the same distance as east to west, but since it is folded open on 2d maps it looks as if the earth is wider then it is higher. In this projection that means the map is stretched more horizontally than vertically, if i understand correctly.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 hours ago
Crossing the globe north to south is the same distance as east to west
Not true, the earth isn’t a perfect sphere. Though I guess I’m just being nitpicky because I looked it up and it’s only ~27mi/43km longer along the equator.
Eiri@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Doesn’t that kinda make Canada look smaller than the US?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Canada (9.98M sqkm) is only slightly larger than the US (9.83M sqkm), so they’re really close in size.
Malgas@beehaw.org 6 hours ago
It’s because they’ve got everything north of Hudson’s Bay broken out separately.
someguy3@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
I’m curious if anyone ever made a “Super Mercator” projection, something where “ze west” is even more exaggerated and some continents even more disproportionately reduced missing/removed to own the libs. It kinda sounds like something governments would do/people would like nowadays.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 hours ago
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Oh god, they made Boston the center of the world
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Russia gains most from this
Lauchmelder@feddit.org 35 minutes ago
How is this a science meme