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If I were an amoral Russian leader, I'd probably take it, but only if I was sure the annexed parts of Ukraine and Belarus could be "pacified". Kyiv and Minsk are more valuable than the Gulf of Narva.
Return of Horrible Educational Maps
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Since 2002 there's the so called "educational planet trail" on the Rhine embankment in Bonn. It depicts the solar system on a 1:1'000'000'000 scale, i.e. the sun is 1.39 m in diameter, Mercury at a distance of 60 metres 4.9 mm, Venus at 108 metres 1.2 cm, Earth at 150 metres 1.27 cm, Mars at 228 metres 6.8 mm, Jupiter at 778 metres 13.98 cm, Saturn at 1'427 metres 11,65 cm, Uranus at 2'870 metres 5.07 cm, Neptune at 4'497 metres 4.92 cm and finally Pluto at 5'946 metres 4.7 mm. For better visibility and to avoid theft the planetrs are depicted as hemispheres on broze plaques containing information about them. It's a popular destination for science teachers to demonstrate the true size of the solar systen to their classes before or after visiting the nearby natural history museum.
The sun at the start of the trail
Earth at 150 metres
Saturn at 1'427 metres
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Those borders are quite clearly puzzle pieces. There’s mirrored regularity to them and it repeats. I guess the map creator was told to make a map from scratch to “avoid copyright problems” and thought the squiggle of a puzzle piece was sufficiently un-American that he could get away with it.
The funny thing is that it isn't *that* bad (we've had worse here). But I'd expect a geometric shape for at least the countries that they have offices for, so the lack of a "rectangle" for Japan is surprising. And it looks like they *tried* to match up the color of the country with the lit up geographic shape for it, but Mexico and Brazil are wrong and Japan and SKorea certainly aren't sharing the lit up shape with Singapore.
I’m not sure it’s supposed to be teaching anything, though. It’s certainly not teaching anything that existed in history at any point. The Map Shitpost thread, on the other hand…
I was trying to find which forum that thread was in and I forgot about the wording of the name, so I posted it here, will post there when I do find it lmao
From this article https://satelliteobservation.net/20...e-an-elegant-weapon-for-a-more-civilized-age/
About French plans for a laser anti-satelite weapon with the caption “A bodyguard satellite (maybe YODA?) bearing witness to a sabotage attempt in GEO.”
Anyone have guesses (serious or sarcastic appreciated) about WTF those blobs are in the middle of the Indian Ocean?
Sadly, the first two things that I noticed was that Antarctica was rotated wrong (The Peninsula should point to South America) and Nova Zemlya was the wrong color...
Any ideas on the island north of the oversize Ireland?
Lives in Tasmania, ancestors from Ireland and was once grievously wronged by a person from New Guinea?