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Show this map to Trump. He will not want Greenland anymore.
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.
He just wants it ti deflect from the Epstein Files.
Wait till he finds out it’s not green at all!
He knows it’s all ice. That why it’s called Iceland.
Greenland: I was in the pool!
There’s shrinkage!
Ragebait
This just in: projection requires distortion.
Hmm, so the Mercator projection makes things look larger than they are? I think I’ve got an idea for another use for it… 😏
Your penis isn’t far enough north for it to help
All right, well first I may need to see a doctor.
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Slightly enlarging something that is microscopic doesn’t change much.
10 x 0 = 0
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.
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?
Trump handlers want the resources. Trump wants it because his ego is inflated by mercator projection.
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.
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
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?
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 1/4~1/5 of the globe, even if it’s actually smaller than South America (18*10⁶km²).
Antarctica is missing, which skews it heavily towards north
Maybe show this to taco trump and he’ll realize Greenland is small and
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(You made a fatal spelling mistake, you killed Greenland, its all your fault!)
Did it cut out the European portion of Russia?
No, it just can’t be scaled down and somehow kept in place at the tame time
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.
Now guess where China builds railroads for exports to Europe.
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.
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 or the other can be correct, but never both.
It’s a curved 2d surface
It’s a much closer approximation, anyway.
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.
Ah, yes, this would be a frustrating map to try and actually use.
