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xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres (imgs.xkcd.com)
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xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres

Title text:

During the most recent glacial maximum, it's believed that land bridges extended from the surfaces and connected several of the spheres together.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3122/

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[-] eth0slash0@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

!mapswithoutnz

Aww it's not a community (yet?)

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I actually kind of like this as a concept for showing the world!

[-] chtk@feddit.nl 19 points 2 months ago

I like how the globe for Australia keeps the trend of not including New Zealand going.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Ha, I missed that! 😁

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

so did the cartographer

[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I mean, NZ would be its own globe because it's a separate country.

But the Australia globe is potentially missing Tasmania.

[-] ksigley@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

There really is an xkcd for everything.

[-] sga@lemmings.world 3 points 2 months ago

this is actually very close to pseudocylindrical projections (an example is the orange peal like sliced maps, wiki says its called Goode homolosine). they look wierd, are dicontinous, but still largely preserve area and angles.

this one is very similar, except sizes are still wierd, and uses different radii spheres, which makes it both non angle and size preserving.

[-] GhostPain@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

Cool except Europe is a sub-continent at best, not a continent.

[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 7 points 2 months ago

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

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

My mom's ass is a sub-continent.

[-] GhostPain@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It's her most appealing feature!

[-] ddplf@szmer.info 2 points 2 months ago

Honestly at this point you're just being obnoxious

[-] GhostPain@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago

Oh shit, found the Europeans. lol

[-] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] GhostPain@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago

Look at you with facts and shit.

You get a gold star buddy!

[-] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Why so aggressive? Did someone hurt you?

[-] Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

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

[-] GhostPain@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago

And you're a fuckin nerd lmao

[-] GhostPain@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] egrets@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[-] GhostPain@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The real problem is how slowly tectonic news travels.

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