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The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world

10mo ago

This would be the time to plan something without Australia

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Remember that it is always half of Earth that gets sunlight. This illustrates how much of the Pacific is missing in this projection.
- There isn't any of the Pacific missing in this projection...you can see right where it starts at the Bering Strait and ends in the exact same place. If this map were centered on the Pacific it would probably seem larger, but there's none missing.
  
  Bro what you still think the Pacific is a real thing and not a random area invented by the government to have the world map look more satisfying
- It's warped, not missing. Just like the resized continents are all there in full, just incorrect (relative) sizes.
- during a solar eclipse less than half of the Earth is lit
  
  obligatory your mum climbs a ladder joke
  
  But on 4/20 more than half of the Earth is lit so it balances out
- Removed

We're doing our own thing July 8th and you guys aren't welcome
- May I know what it is
  
  Just have to visit next year
- I get that reference....

Sorry Australia and New Zealand.
- Hey at least new Zealand is on the map. That must be zenough

Good illustration of the land hemisphere
- Further reading for those who haven’t heard of it:
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres

As a NZer I'm Insulted you aren't excluding us along with Australia.
- At least your on the map.

Free Burger King for everyone under the sun!
- We don't have burger king in Australia. Its called hungry jacks. There was another chain called burger king, now gone, and burger king bought an existing chain called hungry jacks. So it would work!
  
  We know. That's like the main Australian fact, it's important to mention it at every opportunity. Along with, you know, the emu War.
  
  And back in the 90s, Hungry Jack's had a set of mascots called the Kids' Club that had something to do with their kid meals. One of them was a kid in a wheelchair named Wheels.

If it's not on the summer solstice (Jun 20), then shouldn't there be two dates where this is the case, one before and one after?
- Is the angle different the other side somehow? Is the north/south swapped or something?
  
  If Jul 8th is one of them, Jun 2nd would be other. There's no swapping of north/south.

We’d know

This would have been the perfect map to drop New Zealand. Smh
- How about now?
  
  (NZ) Nothing to see here. Move along.

Is it true?

What's the point, we kinda do it anyway

how about we deport our prisoners to Australia. We're not animals though, so we'll load the ships with a bunch of rabbits to sustain them until they settle in.

“World population of known humans”, fixed that for ya
- Are you implying that we should be counting atlanteans, cetaceans, the nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh, and the mole people? I don't think they much care about being left out.
  
  What about the people who live on the INSIDE of the Earth huh? CHECKMATE solid earthers!
- Hello? Pedant Police?... Whats that? Oh you are pedants who are also police? My appologies thats my bad for not understanding, have a nice day. Click
  
  Hehehe nice one !

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