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Dank projection, bro. (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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.

[–] pacmondo 23 points 4 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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

the continental plate also migrates

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

At the rate of 1 CM/year

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

I was referring to continental drift. Places move a lot in under 200 million years. Eg https://youtu.be/uLahVJNnoZ4

So my post was a bit sarcastic that eventually it will have a coast but not on any time frame to matter to the human species. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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] 2 points 4 months ago

Just flip it over lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, because you'll fall off the bottom into space

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

Long Earth theory.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (4 children)

How am I supposed to know how big that is? I don't see a banana anywhere....

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

it's too cold steel wool they don't have bananas

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago

Where Saddam

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 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] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Mercator maps are lies.

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, they certainly are:

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

The correct way to use the tool is to lay the continent over the US.

Typical American, declaring that the US is the default country to compare every other country to!

On a more serious note, putting things side by side is the same as putting them over each other. Difference in height are not the same though, as closer to the equator size shrinks. The best way to compare is take two things and put them side by side on the equator - that's where there's least distortion.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Join the Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality today!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Just look at the map, what more proof do you need?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

and we certainly wont be in a few hundred years lmao.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Big if true

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That’s the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

According to this projection, it's bigger than Africa

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can we talk about how big that structure is?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

About three times the size of Europe it seems, one hell of a building.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Ok, but that's unironically a great map for a TTRPG campaign.

I'm thinking Lovecraft. Plateau of Leng and all that. There's just this huge, impassable land that goes south for what seems like forever. And...things...occasionally wander out of it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My country holds a claim and permanent population to a portion of antartica.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Many have "claims". None are valid though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

How many flags are planted? No flag, no Antarctica. Those are the rules that I just made up.