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i genuinely wonder what flat earthers think is at the very bottom of the flat earth, do they think it's minecraft bedrock or something
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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽  

@mjdxp Turtles? Wait, Discworld is elephants, THEN the turtle. So Earth rides in a howdah on top.

There's so many problems, the flat mapping one bugs me most. The flat Earth would be 40,000km circle at the "equator", and then… twice that at the South Pole/ice border? Northern Canada & Russia would be compressed small? Travel between Argentina & Australia would be impossibly far.

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> Northern Canada & Russia would be compressed small
Aren't they actually smaller than what they look when made flat on the map?
We even have a joke about that: no one ever made Russia as great as the Mercator projection did 🤣
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@m0xee @mjdxp
Mercator's bad, but some are better (I like the National Geographic one):
xkcd.com/977/

But this is just wrong (Gleason's projection was for time zones, but crazy people use his map):

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Damn! My last job involved GIS and I admit, I still have never heard about some of the stuff from that XKCD strip 🤣
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