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re: What’s the point of globes?
Posted on 2/26/21 at 11:06 pm to Winston Cup
Posted on 2/26/21 at 11:06 pm to Winston Cup
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The Mercator was designed in 1569 by cartographer Gerardus Mercator. You probably saw it hanging in your Geography classroom, and it may be how you imagine the Earth to look.
However, it has been heavily criticised because it exaggerates the size of imperialist powers like Europe and North America, and shrinks South America and Africa.
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This week, children at schools in Boston would have found an unfamiliar map of the world in their classrooms, according to The Guardian.
City authorities decided it would be best to introduce the Gall-Peters style map of Earth to schools, because it shows the size of countries more accurately. It replaces the traditional Mercator map style that many of us are familiar with.
The Boston authorities thought in an era of "alternative facts," a shift in the map style was called for, to "decolonize the curriculum" in public schools, and more accurately depict the sizes of countries. Greenland, for example, is actually a lot smaller than the Mercator shows, and South America is really twice the size of Europe.
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Posted on 2/26/21 at 11:09 pm to Kafka
Powerful stuff. At least it isn’t a fake round model
Posted on 2/26/21 at 11:11 pm to Winston Cup
I did study them and they taught me about latitudes. Does your Googles teaches you about longnitudeses?
Posted on 2/26/21 at 11:14 pm to Winston Cup
Well how in the hell do you choose vacation destinations?
Posted on 2/26/21 at 11:14 pm to Winston Cup
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What’s the point of globes?
Posted on 2/26/21 at 11:22 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
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antique globe
You are a bitch if you don't realize that most of the countries are wrong on your antique globe.
Google earth is the tits in this modern world.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 11:24 pm to Cliff Booth
The flat maps look all f’ed up because it’s pretty damn hard to take a 3D sphere and make it a 2D rectangle while maintaining proportions correctly.
This post was edited on 2/26/21 at 11:25 pm
Posted on 2/26/21 at 11:34 pm to ruzil
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most of the countries are wrong
You don’t say, Christopher Columbus.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 11:37 pm to GRTiger
Da fuq? This guy was on one. I’ll have whatever he was tokin
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23 Hotine
Posted on 2/26/21 at 11:38 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
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You don’t say, Christopher Columbus.
You do know that ole Chris is a racist, baw.
Your laugh tells me you are as well.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 2:19 am to Winston Cup
What disappointing thread.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 2:42 am to Kafka
West wing
Posted on 2/27/21 at 3:12 am to PowerTool
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What's the deal with fern?
Do you even fiddlehead, bro?
Baby ferns are a delicacy in the Northeast.
This post was edited on 2/27/21 at 3:13 am
Posted on 2/27/21 at 3:15 am to Winston Cup
Posted on 2/27/21 at 5:14 am to Winston Cup
quote:You’re right: what’s the point of anything, really...
Is that all there is?
Posted on 2/27/21 at 7:32 am to Winston Cup
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What’s the point of globes?
Teaching latitude and longitude for navigation?
Posted on 2/27/21 at 7:40 am to LegendInMyMind
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Me neither. Earth is flat, so a round globe is just misleading.
Well, I have studied this issue and applied scientific method. I so doing, I have discovered that the earth really is ROUND. There is no use denying it. However, the reason it appears flat to all of us as we view it is that our eyes are round too, thus cancelling out the curvature of the horizon as the signals from the eyes are transferred to the brain.
It's hard for me to believe that I am the first person to figure this out in all the history of humanity.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 7:46 am to Winston Cup
I dunno maybe to teach kids where there hometown is in relation to other countries and places.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 7:50 am to Knight of Old
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what’s the point of anything
been wondering this for awhile
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