One of the oldest and most enduring conspiracies in the world is the universal use of the grossly distorted Mercator projection. The true size of countries is in dark blue
Posted by JoeHexotic
One of the oldest and most enduring conspiracies in the world is the universal use of the grossly distorted Mercator projection. The true size of countries is in dark blue
Posted by JoeHexotic
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**Submission Statement:**
The Mercator projection (1569) is very useful for navigation because it preserves angles, but why is it on every classroom wall when it is so damned inacurate? The answer is because it exaggerates the size of the West, making it look bigger and therefore more important
Check out Greenland…
I wouldn’t say this is a conspiracy as such just an easier way to represent a globe on a flat plane although it does distort people’s views of sizes etc I wouldn’t say this way the aim of the design in the 1st place
Pretty sure when I look on Google Earth, what I see is the real sizes, We don’t use these Mercator projections anymore or haven’t for a long while.
I feel like not enough people had school explain to them the problem of making a spherical globe onto a flat surface.
Op map managed to be even less precise to the true scale than the Mercator lol
I think it’s more interesting that the “western” view of the world built the map this way. There is no real up and down on a sphere in space. This map could be vertical (rotated 90 degrees) or upside down for all intents and purposes