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The size of Africa is bigger than in maps and it’s apparently bigger than United States, China, India and most of Europe combined (I saw this in a TikTok so not sure).
Isn’t that crazy?  |
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"Wait until you see how small Greenland really is! We’ve all been lied to!
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/"
Yeah they have been making out Greenland is MASSIVE |
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"The map is one of the first examples of how politics dictates the scientists. If you can call geography a science 
Conspiracy theorist pre renaissance styley  "
The conspiracy theory I believe is responsible is white supremacy. |
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"The size of Africa is bigger than in maps and it’s apparently bigger than United States, China, India and most of Europe combined (I saw this in a TikTok so not sure).
Isn’t that crazy? "
It's not that Africa has been shrunk, I think it remains pretty much the same ... the rest of the world has been made bigger.
Something to do with what happens when you translate a spherical image on to a flat surface.
There's likely some video that can explain it better than I
I think globes give us the truest representation of our planet. |
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"The map is one of the first examples of how politics dictates the scientists. If you can call geography a science
Conspiracy theorist pre renaissance styley
The conspiracy theory I believe is responsible is white supremacy. "
This is believed to be one explanation, white supremacy and capitalist mentality; however, if you look at maps dated before 1569 that distortion doesn’t exist. I am an avid collector of rare and ancient maps.
The best explanation at to why this exist is based on the way maps are made. Since 1569, Mercator projection has been used in cartography. It is a method that attempts to place the spherical shape of the world onto a cylinder, causing areas closest to the poles to be “stretched”.
Africa, which straddles the Equator, barely changes in size — meanwhile, the countries furthest from the Equator become inflated from their true sizes on this type of map introduced by a geographer and cartographer and still in use today.
For those of us living in Western countries, this is an interesting dilemma to consider.
This means that the sizes of European and North American countries are distorted, giving us an inaccurate mental “measuring stick” for judging the relative sizes of other countries. It is herein, where conspiracy theorist have taken off running with the white supremacy theory of countries’ sizing on maps. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The size of Africa is bigger than in maps and it’s apparently bigger than United States, China, India and most of Europe combined (I saw this in a TikTok so not sure).
Isn’t that crazy?
It's not that Africa has been shrunk, I think it remains pretty much the same ... the rest of the world has been made bigger.
Something to do with what happens when you translate a spherical image on to a flat surface.
There's likely some video that can explain it better than I
I think globes give us the truest representation of our planet."
This ^^ |
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"The map is one of the first examples of how politics dictates the scientists. If you can call geography a science
Conspiracy theorist pre renaissance styley
The conspiracy theory I believe is responsible is white supremacy. "
I thought the "usual" map was just because it's the best representation of position. If I remember right, it's not possible to accurately represent country's sizes, shapes, and positions at the same time, on a flat image. Cos sphere to rectangule.
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"The size of Africa is bigger than in maps and it’s apparently bigger than United States, China, India and most of Europe combined (I saw this in a TikTok so not sure).
Isn’t that crazy? "
I wouldn't say crazy. It's just how land is. It's more a case that a lot of people don't realise this. |
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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago
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"The map is one of the first examples of how politics dictates the scientists. If you can call geography a science
Conspiracy theorist pre renaissance styley
The conspiracy theory I believe is responsible is white supremacy.
This is believed to be one explanation, white supremacy and capitalist mentality; however, if you look at maps dated before 1569 that distortion doesn’t exist. I am an avid collector of rare and ancient maps.
The best explanation at to why this exist is based on the way maps are made. Since 1569, Mercator projection has been used in cartography. It is a method that attempts to place the spherical shape of the world onto a cylinder, causing areas closest to the poles to be “stretched”.
Africa, which straddles the Equator, barely changes in size — meanwhile, the countries furthest from the Equator become inflated from their true sizes on this type of map introduced by a geographer and cartographer and still in use today.
For those of us living in Western countries, this is an interesting dilemma to consider.
This means that the sizes of European and North American countries are distorted, giving us an inaccurate mental “measuring stick” for judging the relative sizes of other countries. It is herein, where conspiracy theorist have taken off running with the white supremacy theory of countries’ sizing on maps. "
Whe she and others said. |
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"The map is one of the first examples of how politics dictates the scientists. If you can call geography a science
Conspiracy theorist pre renaissance styley
The conspiracy theory I believe is responsible is white supremacy.
This is believed to be one explanation, white supremacy and capitalist mentality; however, if you look at maps dated before 1569 that distortion doesn’t exist. I am an avid collector of rare and ancient maps.
The best explanation at to why this exist is based on the way maps are made. Since 1569, Mercator projection has been used in cartography. It is a method that attempts to place the spherical shape of the world onto a cylinder, causing areas closest to the poles to be “stretched”.
Africa, which straddles the Equator, barely changes in size — meanwhile, the countries furthest from the Equator become inflated from their true sizes on this type of map introduced by a geographer and cartographer and still in use today.
For those of us living in Western countries, this is an interesting dilemma to consider.
This means that the sizes of European and North American countries are distorted, giving us an inaccurate mental “measuring stick” for judging the relative sizes of other countries. It is herein, where conspiracy theorist have taken off running with the white supremacy theory of countries’ sizing on maps. "
See intelligence is sexy. |
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"The size of Africa is bigger than in maps and it’s apparently bigger than United States, China, India and most of Europe combined (I saw this in a TikTok so not sure).
Isn’t that crazy? "
Sahara desert is bigger than Australia |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"The map is one of the first examples of how politics dictates the scientists. If you can call geography a science
Conspiracy theorist pre renaissance styley
The conspiracy theory I believe is responsible is white supremacy.
This is believed to be one explanation, white supremacy and capitalist mentality; however, if you look at maps dated before 1569 that distortion doesn’t exist. I am an avid collector of rare and ancient maps.
The best explanation at to why this exist is based on the way maps are made. Since 1569, Mercator projection has been used in cartography. It is a method that attempts to place the spherical shape of the world onto a cylinder, causing areas closest to the poles to be “stretched”.
Africa, which straddles the Equator, barely changes in size — meanwhile, the countries furthest from the Equator become inflated from their true sizes on this type of map introduced by a geographer and cartographer and still in use today.
For those of us living in Western countries, this is an interesting dilemma to consider.
This means that the sizes of European and North American countries are distorted, giving us an inaccurate mental “measuring stick” for judging the relative sizes of other countries. It is herein, where conspiracy theorist have taken off running with the white supremacy theory of countries’ sizing on maps. "
This is great and thanks for the explanation.
I just want to add that I don’t think white supremacy is a conspiracy theory. But then, all conspiracy theorists would say they don’t believe their theory is a conspiracy theory. But I said that bit in jest just to clarify before the fab ‘you talk about race too much’ brigade crawl from under their rocks |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"The size of Africa is bigger than in maps and it’s apparently bigger than United States, China, India and most of Europe combined (I saw this in a TikTok so not sure).
Isn’t that crazy?
Sahara desert is bigger than Australia"
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I did know! Racism gets in everywhere even in cartography. "
Lol I’m not allowed to talk about racism on here too much. Apparently it’s all I talk about according to some. Would you believe I dial myself down on here?  |
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Did you know that all these years since super Mario came out everyone has always thought Mario said itsa me Mario.
I fact Mario is actually saying itsumi Mario and itsumi is japanese for super. All this time and we all thought he was saying itsa me Mario when in fact he was just saying super Mario yeah true fact |
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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago
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"Did you know that all these years since super Mario came out everyone has always thought Mario said itsa me Mario.
I fact Mario is actually saying itsumi Mario and itsumi is japanese for super. All this time and we all thought he was saying itsa me Mario when in fact he was just saying super Mario yeah true fact "
‘Itsumi’ doesn’t actually mean ‘super’ in Japanese. It’s a surname which can mean ‘superb, great and outstanding’ but that’s as far as the link goes.'
He says "it's me, mario" with an Italian accent. Along with all his other phrases which are English with an Italian accent |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The map is one of the first examples of how politics dictates the scientists. If you can call geography a science
Conspiracy theorist pre renaissance styley
The conspiracy theory I believe is responsible is white supremacy.
This is believed to be one explanation, white supremacy and capitalist mentality; however, if you look at maps dated before 1569 that distortion doesn’t exist. I am an avid collector of rare and ancient maps.
The best explanation at to why this exist is based on the way maps are made. Since 1569, Mercator projection has been used in cartography. It is a method that attempts to place the spherical shape of the world onto a cylinder, causing areas closest to the poles to be “stretched”.
Africa, which straddles the Equator, barely changes in size — meanwhile, the countries furthest from the Equator become inflated from their true sizes on this type of map introduced by a geographer and cartographer and still in use today.
For those of us living in Western countries, this is an interesting dilemma to consider.
This means that the sizes of European and North American countries are distorted, giving us an inaccurate mental “measuring stick” for judging the relative sizes of other countries. It is herein, where conspiracy theorist have taken off running with the white supremacy theory of countries’ sizing on maps.
This is great and thanks for the explanation.
I just want to add that I don’t think white supremacy is a conspiracy theory. But then, all conspiracy theorists would say they don’t believe their theory is a conspiracy theory. But I said that bit in jest just to clarify before the fab ‘you talk about race too much’ brigade crawl from under their rocks "
At the same time, I’m not negating white supremacy full stop. I can argue white supremacy is responsible for geographical things and norms we’ve come to accept. For example, why is the United States called America when The Americas stretch from the northern most point of Canada down to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina/Chile? This is a massive pet hate of mine. White supremacy and the erasure of over thirty other countries because the United States deems themselves more important and has coined America and Americans as solely theirs. In other languages, inhabitants of the USA are not called Americans. In Spanish for example, they are called ‘United States-izens’ (estadounidenses).
I digress.
In the context of white supremacy and the Mercator projection, I only meant conspiracy theorists have spread the idea that land size is askew because of white supremacy when it’s factually askew because of the transfer as I explained. Not to be confused with me making it seem like you were on about racism. |
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"Did you know that all these years since super Mario came out everyone has always thought Mario said itsa me Mario.
I fact Mario is actually saying itsumi Mario and itsumi is japanese for super. All this time and we all thought he was saying itsa me Mario when in fact he was just saying super Mario yeah true fact
‘Itsumi’ doesn’t actually mean ‘super’ in Japanese. It’s a surname which can mean ‘superb, great and outstanding’ but that’s as far as the link goes.'
He says "it's me, mario" with an Italian accent. Along with all his other phrases which are English with an Italian accent"
well then I guess the creator of Mario is actually wrong |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"The map is one of the first examples of how politics dictates the scientists. If you can call geography a science
Conspiracy theorist pre renaissance styley
The conspiracy theory I believe is responsible is white supremacy.
This is believed to be one explanation, white supremacy and capitalist mentality; however, if you look at maps dated before 1569 that distortion doesn’t exist. I am an avid collector of rare and ancient maps.
The best explanation at to why this exist is based on the way maps are made. Since 1569, Mercator projection has been used in cartography. It is a method that attempts to place the spherical shape of the world onto a cylinder, causing areas closest to the poles to be “stretched”.
Africa, which straddles the Equator, barely changes in size — meanwhile, the countries furthest from the Equator become inflated from their true sizes on this type of map introduced by a geographer and cartographer and still in use today.
For those of us living in Western countries, this is an interesting dilemma to consider.
This means that the sizes of European and North American countries are distorted, giving us an inaccurate mental “measuring stick” for judging the relative sizes of other countries. It is herein, where conspiracy theorist have taken off running with the white supremacy theory of countries’ sizing on maps.
This is great and thanks for the explanation.
I just want to add that I don’t think white supremacy is a conspiracy theory. But then, all conspiracy theorists would say they don’t believe their theory is a conspiracy theory. But I said that bit in jest just to clarify before the fab ‘you talk about race too much’ brigade crawl from under their rocks
At the same time, I’m not negating white supremacy full stop. I can argue white supremacy is responsible for geographical things and norms we’ve come to accept. For example, why is the United States called America when The Americas stretch from the northern most point of Canada down to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina/Chile? This is a massive pet hate of mine. White supremacy and the erasure of over thirty other countries because the United States deems themselves more important and has coined America and Americans as solely theirs. In other languages, inhabitants of the USA are not called Americans. In Spanish for example, they are called ‘United States-izens’ (estadounidenses).
I digress.
In the context of white supremacy and the Mercator projection, I only meant conspiracy theorists have spread the idea that land size is askew because of white supremacy when it’s factually askew because of the transfer as I explained. Not to be confused with me making it seem like you were on about racism. "
This is actually really interesting to me. Thank you   |
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"Did you know that all these years since super Mario came out everyone has always thought Mario said itsa me Mario.
I fact Mario is actually saying itsumi Mario and itsumi is japanese for super. All this time and we all thought he was saying itsa me Mario when in fact he was just saying super Mario yeah true fact
‘Itsumi’ doesn’t actually mean ‘super’ in Japanese. It’s a surname which can mean ‘superb, great and outstanding’ but that’s as far as the link goes.'
He says "it's me, mario" with an Italian accent. Along with all his other phrases which are English with an Italian accent"
my mistake after a brief search you are indeed correct I do apologise sir
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Did you know that all these years since super Mario came out everyone has always thought Mario said itsa me Mario.
I fact Mario is actually saying itsumi Mario and itsumi is japanese for super. All this time and we all thought he was saying itsa me Mario when in fact he was just saying super Mario yeah true fact
‘Itsumi’ doesn’t actually mean ‘super’ in Japanese. It’s a surname which can mean ‘superb, great and outstanding’ but that’s as far as the link goes.'
He says "it's me, mario" with an Italian accent. Along with all his other phrases which are English with an Italian accent"
But did you know the creators named him Mario after the landlord of one of their North American warehouses? The landlord’s real name is Mario Segale. The warehouse workers started calling the character Mario because of the resemblance and the designer liked the name and thus it came to be.
Even more interesting, Nintendo didn’t have sufficient funds to pay rent at this warehouse and Segale allowed them time to come up with overdue rent. They went on to release the new game after the success of Donkey Kong and because they weren’t made to leave their warehouse, thanks for Segale, their popularity climbed and they had a new character, formerly known as Jumpman - Mario. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"In the subject of Mario though he originally wasn't called Mario instead he was originally called jumpman "
jumpman jumpman jumpman them boys up to something
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"Did you know that all these years since super Mario came out everyone has always thought Mario said itsa me Mario.
I fact Mario is actually saying itsumi Mario and itsumi is japanese for super. All this time and we all thought he was saying itsa me Mario when in fact he was just saying super Mario yeah true fact
‘Itsumi’ doesn’t actually mean ‘super’ in Japanese. It’s a surname which can mean ‘superb, great and outstanding’ but that’s as far as the link goes.'
He says "it's me, mario" with an Italian accent. Along with all his other phrases which are English with an Italian accent
But did you know the creators named him Mario after the landlord of one of their North American warehouses? The landlord’s real name is Mario Segale. The warehouse workers started calling the character Mario because of the resemblance and the designer liked the name and thus it came to be.
Even more interesting, Nintendo didn’t have sufficient funds to pay rent at this warehouse and Segale allowed them time to come up with overdue rent. They went on to release the new game after the success of Donkey Kong and because they weren’t made to leave their warehouse, thanks for Segale, their popularity climbed and they had a new character, formerly known as Jumpman - Mario. "
But did they give him any £££££££ when they became rich and famous. |
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"I bet someone had a shock when they said they're going to walk across Africa.
I've been in the Sahara Desert and it's very peaceful.
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Considering the size of Africa as well, it’s most shocking that some people think it’s a country  |
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"I bet someone had a shock when they said they're going to walk across Africa.
I've been in the Sahara Desert and it's very peaceful.
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Really? I am most defintely envious. I've always wanted to go there and I missed my opportunity - long story. |
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"I bet someone had a shock when they said they're going to walk across Africa.
I've been in the Sahara Desert and it's very peaceful.
Considering the size of Africa as well, it’s most shocking that some people think it’s a country "
Exactly it's a continent made up of lot's of countries much like mainland Europe. |
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"I bet someone had a shock when they said they're going to walk across Africa.
I've been in the Sahara Desert and it's very peaceful.
Considering the size of Africa as well, it’s most shocking that some people think it’s a country
Exactly it's a continent made up of lot's of countries much like mainland Europe."
Americans also talk about Europe like it’s a country which is HILARIOUS |
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"I bet someone had a shock when they said they're going to walk across Africa.
I've been in the Sahara Desert and it's very peaceful.
Considering the size of Africa as well, it’s most shocking that some people think it’s a country
Exactly it's a continent made up of lot's of countries much like mainland Europe.
Americans also talk about Europe like it’s a country which is HILARIOUS "
Did you go backpacking in Barthelona or Skegness?
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"Reminds me of this cracking West Wing episode
https://youtu.be/vF2YRkrfgpY?si=InKgYYmXIxT0tm4J"
I love The West Wing.
That episode...the block of cheese one...is great.
Let's start a thread on Wildlife Highways |
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"The size of Africa is bigger than in maps and it’s apparently bigger than United States, China, India and most of Europe combined (I saw this in a TikTok so not sure).
Isn’t that crazy? "
What, the country of Africa is bigger than the US? Are you mad! |
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"Reminds me of this cracking West Wing episode
https://youtu.be/vF2YRkrfgpY?si=InKgYYmXIxT0tm4J
I love The West Wing.
That episode...the block of cheese one...is great.
Let's start a thread on Wildlife Highways "
I think I've rewatched that episode more than any other. A classic! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"The size of Africa is bigger than in maps and it’s apparently bigger than United States, China, India and most of Europe combined (I saw this in a TikTok so not sure).
Isn’t that crazy?
What, the country of Africa is bigger than the US? Are you mad!"
Literally YOLO you make my life |
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