How much do you wanna bet Trump wouldn't be so gung ho on Greenland if he saw this map? He probably thinks he is going to double the size of America.
Can they spot grrenland on the map tho?
Eh, I doubt that's the case. It could be a 20 m^2 area, but if it had Greenland's resources they would want it.
Trump handlers want the resources. Trump wants it because his ego is inflated by mercator projection.
I don't think that's the true size. You'll find all those countries are actually a lot bigger than presented on that map and scaled down to fit on a screen
You don't know how big my screen is.
What is this map, a territory for ants?
It needs to be at least 3 times bigger then this
Damn Indonesia is huge.
The oceans are huge.
Brazil could be the world's superpower but they have other priorities.
If I have to shower in gym class I want the mercator-projection showers.
Do you shower in a handstand?
But then everything near the equator will be smaller.
This map won't be centered on the equator
That's the problem, it's too big
Yes, but blue (Mercator) preserves direction and shape, which were all that really mattered for navigation by sea, so Mercator was a fantastic projection for centuries.
And we still use it today for smaller scale areas, since it does a remarkably good job at preserving all 4 features (shape, area, distance, and direction) close to the map origin line. Universal Transverse Mercator is a system that has 60 zones of Mercator turned sideways.
The reason it's Transverse is because, unlike lattitude depending on a defined equator, longitude has an arbitrary meridian, so by turning the map sideways we can move the distortion point, and any map area that doesn't stray too far East or West will be very accurate.
Think of trying to map something like Chile or Florida, where the area of interest is pretty far North to South, but not East to West.
Maybe show this to taco trump and he'll realize Greenland is small and ~~level~~ leave it be.
Edit fixed typo
level it
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(You made a fatal spelling mistake, you killed Greenland, its all your fault!)
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He's gonna nuuk it
This is why Trump wants Greenland so bad. He sees it, and says "It's big, I want it. Get it for me!" and gets all Veruca Salt about it.
All because he doesn't understand what a Mercator Projection is, on account of he beat up some nerd to do his homework that day, like every day.
Whatever happened to that wavy "W/M" looking one I remember seeing on some news stations when I was younger?
The Goode Homolosine projection. You lose accurate direction, shape, AND size to a degree, but less size issues than some projections. It's a good way to remind kids that the world is round, but once you try to use it for anything like showing a route or visualizing relative distances, the limitations become significant.
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