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Credit: Randall Munroe (xkcd.com)
Latitude and Longitude
Latitude and Longitude
NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730).
What if the Earth rotated 90 degrees?
What if the Earth rotated 90 degrees?
Imagine a world where landmasses are rotated 90 degrees, shifting polar regions to the equator. Randall Munroe explores the profound impact this geographical swap would have on global climate zones, ecosystems, and major cities over millions of years.
More serious answers to absurd questions at: https://what-if.xkcd.com/
Why are we changing maps?
Why are we changing maps?
A clip from "The West Wing" TV show.
Season 2, Episode 16 - “Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's to Jail”
Feb 28, 2001
Cartographers from the Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality visit CJ Cregg to pitch replacing traditional Mercator projection maps in US public schools with the Gall-Peters projection, explaining how the Mercator map distorts the true size of continents and fosters bias against the Southern Hemisphere.
But seriously though...
Why Your View of the World May be Completely Wrong
(Caitlin Posillico - Jun 2022)
The Peters Projection and Mercator Map - Is Either Better Than the Other?
(Matt Rosenberg - Nov 2019)
World Maps - Mercator, Goode, Robinson, Peters, and Hammer
(The Guardian - Apr 2009)
Science Related Humor
Science Related Humor
Credit: Randall Munroe (xkcd.com)
Main Span
Main Span
Wind stress? Don't be silly. When has wind stress ever been a problem for a suspension bridge?
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