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>what is map projection
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>>75534410
give it back
Alaska is just part of Siberia
>>75534542
When the oil is gone.
>>75534410
fucking greenland, im telling ya'. Its a big island.
>>75534472
Keep it down with the antisemitism, lad.
>>75534542
You sold it to us. Big mistake
>>75534542
Don't poke the eagle.
>>75534572
>>75534647
>>75534631
Alaska even looks like russian crown. Give it back, we wuz empire!
>>75534523
And the entire GDP of Africa is about half the same GDP of the UK.
>>75534742
come and take
>>75534609
Greenland is 4x bigger than Madagascar, the fuck is wrong with this map?
>>75534609
Greenland is actually the size of Mexico.
It's distorted on that map. When you try to flatted a globe, the top and bottom get stretched out and distorted. That's why Greenlanf appears to be gigantic, but actually is not. If you have a globe in your house, look at it and you'll see what I mean.
>>75534472
What IS map projection?
>>75534742
Sorry, no. There can be no other great powers in the New World. Monroe Doctrine and all that, I'm sure you understand. The Tsar was already knew that we were going to go to war over it eventually and was so terrified that he sold it to us out of sheer terror. Sorry Ivan, but you lost it.
>>75534742
We're waiting
>>75534772
any stats to back that up?
>>75534855
>>75534870
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA0BLrLW0PE
>>75534542
I seem to remember somebody selling their land for shiny rubles.
>>75534906
Projection involves ... projecting vectors onto another. In the case of maps, it is the projection of a 3D objection onto a 2D surface. Look at the map and notice how Antarctica is drawn. It take up the entire bottom. The bottom is actually the south pole, but that single point has the be stretched to fill the entire map. Things further away from the equator get stretched, because the sphere being sampled has less cross-sectional area to sample from.
Or think of it like this: cut a inflated rubber ball in half. Stretch the edges so that it is a sheet. The edges stretched more than the center. If it were a globe you were doing this too, things farther away from the epicircle you cut through would not be as stretched.
>>75534983
>asking for stats on /pol/
>>75535072
God, I hate the left wing propaganda of the west wing. It's so blatant its infuriating. I'd be fine with changing the map, if it was on grounds of accuracy but they just want to control people's thoughts.
>alaska alone is at least 2 times bigger than any country in europe
>>75535360
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-up_map_orientation
>Cultural diversity and media literacy educators use south-up oriented world maps to help students viscerally experience the frequently disorienting effect of seeing something familiar from a different perspective. Having students consider the privileged position given to the Northern hemisphere (especially Europe and North America) on most world maps can help students confront their more general potential for culturally biased perceptions.
>>75535657
>privileged position
>>75534609
Why do americucks feel the need to split the map in half? I suppose its just so they can feel relevant.
>>75535807
That, and it's probably intended for the trade routes and winds, most of which occur in the Pacific and Atlantic.
