The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Funny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.world · 11 months agoSide-effect of flattening a globestartrek.websiteimagemessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up1737arrow-down19
arrow-up1728arrow-down1imageSide-effect of flattening a globestartrek.websiteThe Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Funny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square91fedilink
minus-squareXenon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-211 months agoI mean this map/number is just straight up wrong. There might be a point about Mercator projections distorting apparent size away from the equator but in reality the line across Russia is well over 8000 km long not 6400 km.
I mean this map/number is just straight up wrong. There might be a point about Mercator projections distorting apparent size away from the equator but in reality the line across Russia is well over 8000 km long not 6400 km.