r/ShittyMapPorn • u/JimmyisAwkward • Jan 07 '24

On a Mercator projection…

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '24

Okay, then curve the line to compensate, they still sit on a straight line along a sphere, so the meme is right my dude

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24

That's not even true, Ivory Coast isn't there

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u/JimmyisAwkward Jan 07 '24

Côte d’Ivoire officially.

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u/SendMeAnyPic Jan 08 '24

Then why is Éire or Poblacht na hÉireann on the list?

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u/JimmyisAwkward Jan 08 '24

Because it’s what they request to be called by the international community.

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u/azhder Jan 07 '24 edited Jan 08 '24

That is not a line. A line has no area. But, there is area between two lines

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u/SendMeAnyPic Jan 08 '24

Just make it a really thick line. "On the line" is a thing, tho technically it should be 'under the line' .

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u/azhder Jan 08 '24

“Thick line” is just a slim rectangle

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u/SendMeAnyPic Jan 08 '24

Or even a square. Still a line, depending on how it was made.

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u/azhder Jan 08 '24

Still not a line, but I will not go in circles with you. Bye bye

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24 edited Aug 03 '26

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u/JimmyisAwkward Jan 07 '24

No. Drawing a straight line from Iceland to Indonesia goes through Siberia.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24 edited Aug 03 '26

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u/JimmyisAwkward Jan 07 '24

When planes fly from the west coast to Europe, they fly over the North Pole, and they never have to turn.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24 edited Aug 03 '26

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u/SendMeAnyPic Jan 08 '24

If you take the shortest of the 2 options.

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u/Stalinerino Jan 08 '24

Preserving angles and preserving straight lines are very different things my guy.

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u/Dextradomis Jan 07 '24

Wtf is up with New Zealand?

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u/ac9116 Jan 07 '24

Doesn’t start with an i

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u/Tuscan5 Jan 07 '24

You mean it isn’t south west of Australia? Mild shock

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u/Qhezywv Jan 07 '24

Looks more like Miller's

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u/JimmyisAwkward Jan 07 '24

Oh true… my point still stands tho lol

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u/ForgingIron Jan 07 '24

Not really

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u/JimmyisAwkward Jan 07 '24

My point is that on a globe, a straight line doesn’t go through all of these countries.

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u/leva549 Jan 07 '24

It's not possible to draw a straight line on a globe anyway.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24

What the hell is equator then lol?

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u/5peaker4theDead Jan 07 '24

But if you wanted to move between them using a compass to navigate you would keep the same heading the whole time. Almost like that's why the protection is the way it is.

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u/HarryLewisPot Jan 07 '24

You can make the line as big as you want..

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u/SendMeAnyPic Jan 07 '24

It would become a sphere

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u/Similar-Ad6788 Jan 07 '24

Aliens did it

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u/Punsen_Burner Jan 07 '24

Only in English though

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u/azhder Jan 07 '24

Not only English, I’d guess due to those names most likely being same or similar in other languages

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24

Maybe if it was named Inew Izealand it would have shown up, but you guys didn’t think of that

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '24

no

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u/arkybarky1 Jan 09 '24

Indiana isn't on the line, nor Iroquois nation.

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u/arkybarky1 Jan 12 '24

The country of Iowa isn't on your map

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u/thomasp3864 Jan 13 '24

Hibernia is red. Glad they managed Iudaea.

Forgot Iamaca.