Science Memes @mander.xyz fossilesque @mander.xyz 5 mo. ago

Dank projection, bro.

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It’s also the only continent without a southern coast.
- For now. It used to a few million years ago and will again in another few million.
  
  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.
- Yeah, because you'll fall off the bottom into space
Long Earth theory.
How am I supposed to know how big that is? I don't see a banana anywhere....
- it's too cold steel wool they don't have bananas
- because it's smaller than a pixel :)
  
  I yeah i see it now, it's the pixel in the bottom right corner
  
  it's 3% more banana-colored than the surrounding pixels, you can't miss it
Where Saddam
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
- Mercator maps are lies.
  
  https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTY2MDE2NDA.NDc5Njc5Nw*MjE1MTM3Mjc(MzM1MDIwMDg~!AQ*MTczNjE5MDg.MTI2ODc2MjY)MA
  
  Yeah, they certainly are:
  
  Join the Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality today!
  
  Kalothar is right
  
  https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTY4NDk1MDM.NTE5OTU2*MTc5NjM3NzY(MjAyMDQxNw~!CONTIGUOUS_US*MTMzNTM3.MTE1MDkwMTA)MA~!AQ*MTY1OTExMjU.MTE1NjAxMjQ)MQ
- Just look at the map, what more proof do you need?
- 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.
and we certainly wont be in a few hundred years lmao.
Big if true
Can we talk about how big that structure is?
- About three times the size of Europe it seems, one hell of a building.
Wait what? Did we just find Hitler's secret Antarctica base?
- That’s the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station.
  
  Nonsense! Did you see how big that thing is? Definitely Hitler!
- According to this projection, it's bigger than Africa
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.
My country holds a claim and permanent population to a portion of antartica.
- Many have "claims". None are valid though.
  
  How many flags are planted? No flag, no Antarctica. Those are the rules that I just made up.
  
  Yeah but the permanent population is there, sakd claim precedes the treaty.
  
  All are equally valid
No bears, tho.
And getting smaller everyday
Serious Q: isn't there actually a lot resources in Antarctica? Or is it just too difficult to set up shop there?
- There certainly are, but...
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System
  
  This treaty means the entire continent is for science only.
- When you say resources what resources are you referring to specifically?
  
  Penguin leather
  
  Not sure but mineables? Im probably oversimplifying because all my knowledge of getting stuff out of the ground comes from games but stuff like metals.
- Most planets, and much of our planet, is uninhabitable. This is the threat of climate change. Antarctica is a desert.
  
  Oil rigs and mines aren't exactly living off the land. Dropping enough preserved food off to supply a facility wouldn't be too difficult. The main reason nobody's doing it is the international treaties involved
I mean, show us the whole thing then!
It's just the ice wall on the edge of the flat earth. Checkmate, globe-lovers!

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