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Side-effect of flattening a globe (startrek.website)

submitted 11 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/funny@lemmy.world

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[–] Luccus@feddit.de 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This may be off topic, but it's sadly not a common occurence to see someone correct something "a bit misleading", while acknowledging that the point is still valid.

You are cool. Keep being you.

[–] Xenon@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.