The Random thought thread

[facthunter]

I'll try to find out what it is. Nev

[pmccarthy]

[spacesailor]

Looks pretty much the same to me ! , ( European ).

spacesailor

[red750]

That's a flat earthers idea of the earth. Look at the distance between east Russia and Alaska.

[pmccarthy]

It is just the sizes that have been corrected. Of course the image of each region is no longer the proportionate distance from its neighbours. The main message for me is that Russia is not all that big compared to Australia. 

Edited Tuesday at 02:28 PM by pmccarthy

[Jerry_Atrick]

According to Google, Russia is 17.1m sq kms; Australia is 7.688m sq km.

Edited Tuesday at 03:35 PM by Jerry_Atrick

[facthunter]

It Illustrates the Disortions of the Mercator Projection which get worse near each pole. The more common  and useful one is Lamberts Conformal Orthomorphic projection based on 2 selected parallels of Latitude   The only true representation is on a Globe, Nev

[spacesailor]

It may be helpful to have a frame around the image , so. ALASKA & Russia have a boarder to measure. 

spaesailotr

[pmccarthy]

14 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

According to Google, Russia is 17.1m sq kms; Australia is 7.688m sq km.

That sounds about right when looking at the image.