The object here is to find map projections that minimize the sum of the squares of the errors-a technique that dates back to the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. Ignoring one of them can lead you to bad-looking maps no one would prefer. North America is lopsided to the north: Canada is bigger than it should be, and Mexico is too small. His route looks bent on a Mercator map-a flexion error. A pilot flying a great circle route straight from New York to Tokyo passes over northern Alaska. The Mercator map has a boundary cut error: one makes a cut of 180 degrees along the meridian of the international date line from pole to pole and unrolls the Earth’s surface, thus putting Hawaii on the far-left side of the map and Japan on the far-right side of the map creating an additional distance error in the process. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today. If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. Greenland appears as large as South America even though it covers only one seventh the area on the globe. It has perfect local shapes but is bad at depicting areas. These are illustrated by the famous Mercator projection, the base template for Google maps. Previously, Goldberg and I identified six critical error types a flat map can have: local shapes, areas, distances, flexion (bending), skewness (lopsidedness) and boundary cuts. But flat maps are easy to store and manufacture and are therefore desirable. Depicting the curved surface of the Earth on a flat map has been the cartographers’ problem for centuries. I and my colleagues Dave Goldberg and Bob Vanderbei (who invented the “ Purple America” map for showing election results) have produced what we believe to be the most accurate flat map of the Earth ever made. Since becoming an emeritus professor at Princeton, I have fondly returned to some of my childhood interests. When I was 14, I made a painted globe of Mars based on a flat Mercator Mars map by the astronomer E. As a kid I was fascinated by map projections. I mean, you people have the same technology for travel as anyone else, so why don't you GO OUT AND SEE! But more than that, I would LOVE to see A SINGLE SHREAD OF EVIDENCE for any of those ships, the facilities that has the ability to manufacture them, the people who manage them, etc.I usually work on general relativity and cosmology. WONDER why NO ONE has ever seen this giant armada of ships DESPITE the fact that all you have to do is travel a couple thousand miles if you have a Cessna. Not to mention, of the 10,970 ships, all of them require supplies, material, need some degree of repair, etc. Meaning.Įven if we placed a ship to guard the ice wall every 5 miles, that's still about 10,970 ships to guard the ice wall. That's the radius from the center of the flat plate to the middle of Antarctica and the tip of South America. Since the flat earth and globe earth longitudinal lines are the same, the North Pole to middle of Antarctica to the tip of the South America is about 8730 miles. "You cannot disprove 'x' therefore 'x' is true" is literally one of the dumbest logical fallacies people use these days.won't you agree?Īnyway, since you obviously cannot do any of the thinking, allow me to do it for you. Your the one who MADE THE CLAIM, so you must PROVE IT You can quote logical fallacies all you want to make yourself look like a charlatan, but unfortunately, the burden of proof IS ON YOU.
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