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  1. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    Would be a good excuse, but artistic freedom works just as well.

  2. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    The map looks better on the original site and they have put a lot of thoughts in it, still the coastline feels weird. I think that this world had no glacial cycles, and a constant sealevel would give smoother coastlines.

  3. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    I knew of the antipopes, but today I learned there was an exclave of the papal states around Avignon. Almost excuses the modern borders.

  4. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    Blobby Germany sort of counts since I found it in a university :)

  5. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    Sounds nice, both the evolution and the geology. Not sure about the forum, perhaps Future History if it will be terraformed by humans? If it was made by intelligent dinosaurs, they probably would get mixed in with the unfairly maligned bats, geological timelines are also there.

  6. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    Yes, I'm sure they would have been noticed and recorded in any serious astronomy (Egypt, Babylon and later). In Greece geocentrism and heliocentrism were first debated but I think the Martian moons would be a strong argument then so that more philosophers would prefer it, and geocentrism...

  7. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    Thought I made some calculations first before continuing to speculate... glad I did since it was very far off. Orbiting Mars at half of Lunas orbit gives you a visual size of 12 arcminutes at the closest approach, that's one third of the Moon's visible size. No way you could confuse the system...

  8. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    I can't tell since I haven't delved deep enough into the divine associations, just extrapolating from my own cultural baggage of Ares and Mars. Apparently the association with a god of war was first with Nergal and the color motive came later. In Egypt it was Horus, associating both the color...

  9. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    Mars wouldn't be red so it would have less of an association to war, so there's likely a different name for it after another god. You could estimate its brightness to Jupiter, but that wouldn't change so much for the religions down on Earth. Ceres size moons at a closer orbit make far more of a...

  10. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    Yeah, sorry for that. Both would of course improve their planet's fate of being habitable, and I feel that for both planets if would be enough to tip them over the edge into having native life with some sort of panspermia.

  11. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    Yeah, but you don't know how much it cost to build earth that way? No one could have paid the mice enough to build Mars and Venus habitable, and it wouldn't even have been redundant, stupid Vodons made a mess of the whole system.

  12. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    I will try to make something with the long days, and the bright but cold nights there. And since the orbital planes are aligned, you get real darkness each day at noon at the eclipse. Also reread Proxima by Stephen Baxter, the description of life tidally locked to the dwarf sun were great.

  13. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    I wanted to have my worlds be moons tidally locked to a gas giant, but orbiting a more sun-like star so I can have them more familiar. They are loosely based on the Galilean moons of Jupiter, but there are three of them in the habitable zone, with tidal heating making the main difference. I have...

  14. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    But we need Megaflorida as a new homeland for the displaced Norwegians and the refugees from Kaliningrad too.

  15. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    Mathematically correct is the best kind of correct. I really like this map as a semi-intentional work of art. The oceans are the object of today's lesson, so here's an easy on the eye map with a lot of azure in it, clean labels and all the continents in background white. They can play and drift...

  16. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    The TDF alonh the South American coast goes up too far north, from the Atacama onwards the desert is at the coast, most of the altiplano isn't.But it's like the map ignores mountain areas as a whole.

  17. The Avg Professional Person’s World Map

    Tried the game and found the map rather bad, you couldn't make out which pin is where, sometimes on a zoomed detail sometimes not. But I guess you just should type out the countries without the map.

  18. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    A Buddhist stupa is the last place I would have guessed to turn up in this thread.

  19. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    It's a great drawing and the artist has a fantastic imagination, I love the huge Lemuria just off the coast of Japan, and this is probably the only map showing timezones for Lemuria and Atlantis. Nazi Antarctica is a common conspiracy theory along UFOs so I wouldn't label the artist that way...

  20. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    It's the Great Indian Empire at its largest extent, before they lost their colonies in the New World.
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