Quote (card_sultan @ Aug 23 2017 11:29am)
You telling me that cartoon is real - that Greenland is almost the same size as Africa?
gg Faker.
greenland is nowhere near the same size as africa.
"In particular, the southern hemisphere appears much smaller than it is in reality. For instance, in the Mercator projection (below), north America looks at least as big, if not slightly larger, than Africa. And Greenland also looks of comparable size. ... Greenland, meanwhile, is 1/14th the size of the continent."
greenland 836,330 sq m
africa 11,608,000 sq m
was easy to look up
"One way in which we imagine Africa is through world maps. But as far back as Ptolemy, in the 2nd Century Roman empire, cartographers have known that drawing an accurate map of the world is basically impossible. The world is spherical, a map is flat, and there is no obvious way to get around this.
Try to flatten out, for example, the hollow peel of an orange and two things become quickly apparent: 1) there are an infinite number of ways to do that, and 2) none is particularly satisfactory, let alone a neat rectangle."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/02/google-maps-gets-africa-wrong