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Off Topic => General Off Topic => Topic started by: NejStark on March 29, 2014, 08:01:50 pm
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Baltics being vodka drinkers with bad cuisine? I wholeheartedly disagree!
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BUT SKILLINGSBOLER
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I highly disagree with the 20.
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9 is just blatantly wrong, maybe even reversed. Medditterranean countries more sexually repressed than northern ones? HAH! Although I don't see the dichotomy between sexually and emotionally repressed. If anything those things overlap.
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People who eat walking? Wtf...
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lol murica best country
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Further proof only good countries in Europe are Spain, Greece and Italy
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That reminded me of this world map which as I understood shows the real proprotions of territories unlike the standart one:
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The standart one:
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Peters projection is not accurate or proportional at all. It's merely the exact opposite of Mercator. Instead of distorting around the Poles it distorts around the Equator. It's popular with SJW's who have no knowledge or interest in the history of cartography beyond pretending to be outraged, and maybe self-flagellate a bit about how evil white people are. Because it completely ignores the many, many variants of map prrojections that have been in use since the advent of scientific cartography. Mercator wasn't the standard projection for most of the colonialist/imperialist period of european powers. In fact it started becoming standard once colonial empires started fragmenting and collapsing. So the explanation for why it is the "accepted" world map projection is just so much whiny, erroneous bullshit. Not to mention even reading slightly into why Mercator used that projection you understand "imperialism" and "racism" had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Anyways, there is no way to accurately map the world onto a flat surface.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_the_Set
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Peters projection is not accurate or proportional at all. It's merely the exact opposite of Mercator. Instead of distorting around the Poles it distorts around the Equator. It's popular with SJW's who have no knowledge or interest in the history of cartography beyond pretending to be outraged, and maybe self-flagellate a bit about how evil white people are. Because it completely ignores the many, many variants of map prrojections that have been in use since the advent of scientific cartography. Mercator wasn't the standard projection for most of the colonialist/imperialist period of european powers. In fact it started becoming standard once colonial empires started fragmenting and collapsing. So the explanation for why it is the "accepted" world map projection is just so much whiny, erroneous bullshit. Not to mention even reading slightly into why Mercator used that projection you understand "imperialism" and "racism" had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Anyways, there is no way to accurately map the world onto a flat surface.
Isn't Mercator's supposed to represent angles correctly (for navigation) and Peter's supposed to represent the size of surfaces (but not their actual shape) correctly ? I just remember hearing this a long time ago.
Anyways, one of the best xkcd comics of all time
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