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1. Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Nov-2018 09:28:42 CET Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

   • jd Ⓐ★???????

   @jd It's really cool but i'd say that's the real size but not the real shape... mercator deforms the shape more in the places nearer to the poles, so the real shapes are reduced in a different way... i guess...

   • flugennock@mastodon.social's status on Tuesday, 13-Nov-2018 01:25:24 CET flugennock

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     • jd Ⓐ★???????

     @ekaitz_zarraga @jd Basically, pretty much every attempt at map "projection" is an attempt to make sense out of the topography of a sphere on a sheet of paper. Gotta make it fit somehow.

     The first time I saw Earth on TV via an Apollo mission telecast, it took me forever to make sense of it - not just because of the swirling cloud cover, but because it wasn't in "north is up" position like the globe in school.

     Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 repeated this.