Africa In Perspective: It's big. Really big.

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It is interesting to see just how big Africa is in relation to other parts of the world.

http://www.doobybrain.com/2008/06/01/africa-in-perspective-its-big-really-big/

 

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It is interesting to see just how big Africa is in relation to other parts of the world.

http://www.doobybrain.com/2008/06/01/africa-in-perspective-its-big-really-big/

So what? It is still a shit hole

 

[Phishbohn]

In the cities, but if you like wildlife there is no place on the planet like it.

 

[Phishbohn]

In the cities, but if you like wildlife there is no place on the planet like it.

 

[Phishbohn]

One day ill get use to this phone.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I was under the impression that Africa was small.

 

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I was under the impression that Africa was small.

As was I. No bigger, and certainly cleaner, than New Jersey.

 

[Minister of Truth]

Yeah, it's a continent. Now, if you just want to talk Tanzania or Mauritania, then it's not so enormous after all.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

I was under the impression that Africa was small.

did you know that because of the chosen perspective world maps overemphasize the geographical scale of the continents in the Northern Hemisphere?....when the spread out the triangles of the latitude markers they simply fill in the space that was created with more land.....here's a map that eliminates that misrepresentation....

 

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I was under the impression that Africa was small.

I have a friend that drove a Land Rover in the mid '70s from the top of Africa to the bottom with several others. At one stage they ended up going through Angola, right in the middle of a civil war. They then crossed into Namibia and ended up in detention in South Africa for a few days as the police thought they were spies.

 

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As was I. No bigger, and certainly cleaner, than New Jersey.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

did you know that because of the chosen perspective world maps overemphasize the geographical scale of the continents in the Northern Hemisphere?....when the spread out the triangles of the latitude markers they simply fill in the space that was created with more land.....here's a map that eliminates that misrepresentation....

Yes, it's a well known problem with the overused mercator projection (which is really only supposed to be used in navigation - it has certain properties that are useful in that field). And equal-area projections such as Hobo-Dryer can correct for that. Another one is the Peters' projection, but the internet hates it.

Mercator makes Greenland look as big as Africa:

When in reality it's just a little sliver:

But I've known that since I was a child. And, of course, Hobo-dryer gets the actual shape entirely wrong, just the size right. It's, of course, impossible to get the shape and area entirely right on a square map.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I have a friend that drove a Land Rover in the mid '70s from the top of Africa to the bottom with several others. At one stage they ended up going through Angola, right in the middle of a civil war. They then crossed Namibia and ended up in detention in South Africa for a few days as the police thought they were spies.

Note to self: when planning a road trip, make sure that I avoid countries in the middle of a war of independence from white people. Especially without any visa, permission to do so, or proof that I'm anything but a spy/person working for the Portuguese.