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The reason all of our maps of the earf are distorted the exact same way

is because birdshits decided at some point that Greenwich, L...
razzmatazz very tactful legal warrant roast beef
  08/01/26
Yeah but a flat map is going to be distorted regardless of w...
chocolate degenerate parlour
  08/01/26
They could give us an array of different maps, or use them i...
razzmatazz very tactful legal warrant roast beef
  08/01/26
If you want to know “what the Earth looks like” ...
chocolate degenerate parlour
  08/01/26
It makes perfect sense that the mapmakers would make their h...
Dark bawdyhouse police squad
  08/02/26
tl; dr
razzmatazz very tactful legal warrant roast beef
  08/02/26
English mapmakers understandly prioritized accurately scalin...
Dark bawdyhouse police squad
  08/02/26
"it's realistic"
razzmatazz very tactful legal warrant roast beef
  08/02/26
Map projections are pragmatic instruments, not accurate geom...
chocolate degenerate parlour
  08/02/26
"it's realistic"
razzmatazz very tactful legal warrant roast beef
  08/02/26
...
Dark bawdyhouse police squad
  08/02/26
The flat earth map actually isn’t Distorted at all exc...
Diverse Selfie Alpha
  08/02/26
But xo says it's impossible to draw an accurate 2D map of th...
razzmatazz very tactful legal warrant roast beef
  08/02/26
Mercator is distorted towards the poles. Not longitudinally...
yellow public bath nibblets
  08/02/26
"it's realistic"
razzmatazz very tactful legal warrant roast beef
  08/02/26
...
Dark bawdyhouse police squad
  08/02/26
shoulda listened to NSAM https://x.com/SprinterPress/stat...
Jared Baumeister
  09/05/26


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Date: August 1st, 2026 11:01 PM
Author: razzmatazz very tactful legal warrant roast beef

is because birdshits decided at some point that Greenwich, London had to be at the center of every map, just as Greenwich Mean Time is the timezone by which every other timezone is measured. They made that the neutral reference point for what became known as the Mercator projection. It sucks. It makes Russia and Africa look tiny. It's no more realistic than old maps from the 15th century, really. What you see is totally divorced from actual reality.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2#50040105)



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Date: August 1st, 2026 11:04 PM
Author: chocolate degenerate parlour

Yeah but a flat map is going to be distorted regardless of where you put the center. So the only real point of this is "in the same way". But seems better to have them all distorted in the same way then all different ones.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2#50040113)



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Date: August 1st, 2026 11:09 PM
Author: razzmatazz very tactful legal warrant roast beef

They could give us an array of different maps, or use them interchangeably so that people could interpolate their own sense of what the earth looks like. There's no argument for keeping it standardized like this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2#50040122)



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Date: August 1st, 2026 11:14 PM
Author: chocolate degenerate parlour

If you want to know “what the Earth looks like” what the hell are you looking at a 2D map projection for? At that point look at a globe or 3D model

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2#50040128)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 3:23 AM
Author: Dark bawdyhouse police squad

It makes perfect sense that the mapmakers would make their home location the most accurate part of the map you schizoid shitlib. And its not like other people were prohibited from making maps where their location was the most accurate scale. English maps just became the most popular for the same reason the English language has become the most popular international language.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2#50040268)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 10:49 AM
Author: razzmatazz very tactful legal warrant roast beef

tl; dr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2#50040481)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 10:53 AM
Author: Dark bawdyhouse police squad

English mapmakers understandly prioritized accurately scaling England and those maps are the standard because the English empire was dominant when the standard was established.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2#50040487)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 11:07 AM
Author: razzmatazz very tactful legal warrant roast beef

"it's realistic"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2#50040515)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 11:09 AM
Author: chocolate degenerate parlour

Map projections are pragmatic instruments, not accurate geometric models

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2#50040519)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 11:11 AM
Author: razzmatazz very tactful legal warrant roast beef

"it's realistic"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2#50040522)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 11:17 AM
Author: Dark bawdyhouse police squad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2#50040534)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 11:20 AM
Author: Diverse Selfie Alpha

The flat earth map actually isn’t Distorted at all except if you believe the Antarctica fraud: https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/api/singleitem/image/agdm/20577/default.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2#50040536)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 11:22 AM
Author: razzmatazz very tactful legal warrant roast beef

But xo says it's impossible to draw an accurate 2D map of the earf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2#50040539)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 10:10 AM
Author: yellow public bath nibblets

Mercator is distorted towards the poles. Not longitudinally. Russia's size is exaggerated not minimized.

You seem retarded. May god have mercy on you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2#50040429)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 10:49 AM
Author: razzmatazz very tactful legal warrant roast beef

"it's realistic"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2#50040479)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 5:25 PM
Author: Dark bawdyhouse police squad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2#50041286)



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Date: September 5th, 2026 11:31 PM
Author: Jared Baumeister

shoulda listened to NSAM

https://x.com/SprinterPress/status/2096343751719592214?s=20

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888592&forum_id=2#50118473)