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Dank projection, bro. (mander.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

Long Earth theory.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Wait what? Did we just find Hitler's secret Antarctica base?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That’s the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Nonsense! Did you see how big that thing is? Definitely Hitler!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Uh, antartica is about as wide as the U.S. and about as tall as it is wide.

So, I just feel like I’m being bamboozled here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah it's definitely not a real projection. If Antarctica looked like that (taken top down) then the rest of the continents would not be oriented like that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Mercator maps are lies.

https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTY2MDE2NDA.NDc5Njc5NwMjE1MTM3Mjc(MzM1MDIwMDg~!AQMTczNjE5MDg.MTI2ODc2MjY)MA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Join the Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality today!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Kalothar is right

https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTY4NDk1MDM.NTE5OTU2MTc5NjM3NzY(MjAyMDQxNw~!CONTIGUOUS_USMTMzNTM3.MTE1MDkwMTA)MA~!AQ*MTY1OTExMjU.MTE1NjAxMjQ)MQ

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, they certainly are:

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

That is inaccurate. The correct way to use the tool is to lay the continent over the US. It skews the size and scale appropriately in order to provide an accurate measurement.

Antarctica vs US

It’s also larger in area than the US, including Alaska and all territories.

The total area of the US and its territories is just over 3.8 million square miles. Antarctica's area of 5.4 million square miles makes it 1.5x the size of the US.

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It’s also the only continent without a southern coast.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For now. It used to a few million years ago and will again in another few million.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

Are you referring to the magnetic pole switch? That happens every 200-1M years, according to patterns on the seafloor. It’s been estimated that the last reversal was 780,000 years ago, so it theoretically could be any day now.

With that being said, I doubt that humanity will agree to turn all maps 180° to correspond.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Laschamp event! I just edited a related wiki page on late Pleistocene extinctions. Spoiler alert: it didn't kill the megafauna.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I thought they were referring to the fact that under the ice its an archipelago, so if the ice melts it will have southern coasts again

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Valid point. It’s a shame humanity wouldn’t be around to confirm. lol

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Just flip it over lol

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

the continental plate also migrates

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

At the rate of 1 CM/year

[+] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

To move a continent north of the equator at the rate of 1 CM per year? You might need a bigger napkin.

Antarctica’s leading coast is 10,000 KM from the equator. Assuming it’s able to continue through Southern Africa at the same rate, it would take 100 billion years to have a northern coast.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

southern or northern coast. I had deleted my comment already because I misread yours, but I had mathed the time to move away from the pole, producing a southern coast. not time to cross the equator

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You’re right, that would create a northern coast. That would be closer to 300M years, assuming it can continue to move at the rate of 1 CM/year, straight through Africa. Antarctica is ~4,500 KM across. The leading coast is only 1,287 KM from the South Pole, leaving 3,213 KM of land needed to migrate from the Pacific side. That would take 321,300,000 years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

same order of magnitude. also you seem to be implying the other continents are completely stationary

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