Does size matter? Correct the Map campaign says yes.

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it really does distort perception. i used to think about, even though we're in north america, we're still quite a ways away from the north pole, with the gargantuan size of canada. until i found out the true size of canada. then it made sense why chicago kept getting "arctic vortexes" or in a few instances reached temperatures on par with antartica.

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it's also interesting how there is not equal distortion around both poles. just the northern.
it also puts the havoc being caused by us-russia-china into perspective.
 

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I agree they should, I also agree with the post above that they should get their shyt together.

Too divided and too corrupt against there own.. but tribalism and all
europeans are also super corrupt and tribal, but they have a "code" that keeps them from collapsing

Africans don't have to love each other, which i would love to see, but they do need to have a sense of functional community.
 

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europeans are also super corrupt and tribal, but they have a "code" that keeps them from collapsing

Africans don't have to love each other, which i would love to see, but they do need to have a sense of functional community.
Europeans aren’t the people we should be modeling ourselves after.

It’s the reason for a lot of issues in the world today. It’s the reason they try to claim, vulture, and steal damn near everything others create

But I do agree
 

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it really does distort perception. i used to think about, even though we're in north america, we're still quite a ways away from the north pole, with the gargantuan size of canada. until i found out the true size of canada. then it made sense why chicago kept getting "arctic vortexes" or in a few instances reached temperatures on par with antartica.

mercator-vs-truesize.gif



it's also interesting how there is not equal distortion around both poles. just the northern.
it also puts the havoc being caused by us-russia-china into perspective.

The Mercator Projection does distort the lands of the southern hemisphere, its just that maps dont show the whole map. The map below is a direct result of the logic behind Mercator's projection itself. That's why the lands near the north pole are so much larger than they really are:

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