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Side-effect of flattening a globe (startrek.website)
submitted 11 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/funny@lemmy.world
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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Actually this is a bit misleading. If you check google maps you can see that those straight lines are not the shortest path between those points. Also, that's not the longest distance between 2 points in Russia.

The point still stands that these two distances are practically the same when they appear vastly different in a 2D projectio.

Edit: I might have placed the marker in Crimea. Sorry about that. The point still basically stands.

[–] Luccus@feddit.de 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This may be off topic, but it's sadly not a common occurence to see someone correct something "a bit misleading", while acknowledging that the point is still valid.

You are cool. Keep being you.

[–] Xenon@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I mean this map/number is just straight up wrong. There might be a point about Mercator projections distorting apparent size away from the equator but in reality the line across Russia is well over 8000 km long not 6400 km.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You have made a political statement about crimea, watch out for Russia simps

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oof. I though I stopped just short of Crimea?

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago

You did, that's why Russia simps would be upset

[–] nbafantest@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Actually this is a bit misleading.

I think thats the the entire point of this post is how the projection is misleading lol

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes but in trying to show how the projection is misleading, the post is still misleading you... Meaning the original was less misleading than you were made believe. By committing the same error caused by the projection itself. The post is trying to show that Africa is wider than Russia but it's not.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

How long from Kaliningrad?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Why would we measure from Královec?