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The size of the UK compared to the US
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Oct 4, 2015 01:59
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Gee, "truesize", Greenland looks awfully big on your maps.
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Oct 4, 2015 02:27
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The UK is smaller than California, in terms of area:  Cliff Racer posted:Gee, "truesize", Greenland looks awfully big on your maps. Why_the_Mercator_projection_sucks.png:  The UK is farther north than non-Alaska US, and consequently, looks bigger than it should by comparison on a Mercator projected map, which is the map the vast majority of people are most familiar with. also: Africa is really loving big 
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Oct 4, 2015 02:30
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gently caress Mercator
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Oct 4, 2015 02:44
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Cojawfee posted:What's the farthest you've driven at a time in the UK? I can drive for seven hours straight and not even leave Texas. Also, that's a thing in the US. Traveling is determined by hours of driving, not by distance. I can drive for two days in my state and not even be at the northern end of it. (Queensland). Western Australia is taller again. It's crazy as a non european to think that the hours drive south to go interstate is enough to get to another country in a lot of places. Leperflesh posted:I think this helps to drive it home:  Thats 1 state. E: Holy poo poo Queensland is nearly as tall as the entirety of America on the map. 
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Oct 4, 2015 03:28
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Cliff Racer posted:Gee, "truesize", Greenland looks awfully big on your maps. Grab Greenland and drag it. It's a Mercator, but it properly scales down the closer you get to the equator. Pretty cool site.
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Oct 4, 2015 04:03
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Picnic Princess posted:gently caress Mercator I'm a Dymaxion fan myself but nothng really beats a globe.
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Oct 4, 2015 04:08
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Picnic Princess posted:gently caress Mercator every flat map of the globe must distort something. Can't peel an orange without tearing the peel. leave mercator alone or I'll peel you
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Oct 4, 2015 04:17
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simosimo posted:I LOVED the thread about the goon who was gonna walk across a America but gave up after 6 days. Probably the best thread I have ever read. the best part is a canadian man did the same thing a few months ago, as far as I know he either finished or is close to finishing. http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/details.asp?c=94950
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Oct 4, 2015 04:19
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Mercator is great, it's not its fault that it was misused.
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Oct 4, 2015 05:30
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Edit: nm
monster on a stick fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Oct 4, 2015 |
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Oct 4, 2015 05:52
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Bunch of hobbitses sledging about maps
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Oct 4, 2015 22:37
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anyone in the us thinking of climbing a tall mountain should drive up pikes peak to understand what its like when oxygen suddenly gets thin and thats at only 4km high which you can comfortably drive to there
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Oct 4, 2015 22:39
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I wouldn't exactly say it's a comfortable drive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEuZG37gFdM
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Oct 4, 2015 23:19
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Cruel and Unusual posted:Mercator is great, it's not its fault that it was misused. Yeah the first thing they taught us about Mercator projection in nautical school was "don't use it to represent areas above 60 degrees of latitude." Welp. Accuracy of angles though, woo.
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Oct 5, 2015 05:24
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I've just started reading Lene Gammelgard's account of 1996. It's kind of a diary and stilted in a very Danish way so we'll see how we get on.
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Oct 5, 2015 05:32
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Minrad posted:the best part is a canadian man did the same thing a few months ago, as far as I know he either finished or is close to finishing. A dude with no legs did it sooooooo
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Oct 5, 2015 05:33
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MANGOSTEEN CURES P posted:And this is without even leaving the Atlantic coastline. I do almost this exact trip every year (Montreal to Jacksonville and back) and it is incredibly boring and there's not much to see on 95. N and S Carolina are the worst parts of the whole trip too. 5/10, hesitantly recommend
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Oct 5, 2015 07:07
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October Revolution posted:I do almost this exact trip every year (Montreal to Jacksonville and back) and it is incredibly boring and there's not much to see on 95. N and S Carolina are the worst parts of the whole trip too. But I-95 through the Carolinas has South of the Border, the tackiest tourist trap known to man, plus all the billboards with horrible puns (PEDRO SAYS "HOT DOG! YOU NEVER SAUSAGE A PLACE") for like 700 miles beforehand. It's poo poo but at least it helps the monotony. The worst part is getting to Florida for the first time and not realizing just how much farther you have to drive to get to Miami, let alone Key West. Second worst part is the Baltimore-DC corridor. Feels like you're always guaranteed a few dozen miles of stop-n-go outside Baltimore no matter what time of day you travel.
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Oct 5, 2015 08:12
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Very few roads in Britain that you'll actually drive on are Romans - most of our motorways (highways) are routed via major cities and towns, so they are significantly slower than the U.S. Highways even though our speed limits are slightly higher, on average. I've done some big drives in the U.S. and while the big empty middle is boring, you can go quickly and there's little traffic on the interstates. I've done some ridiculous drives in Africa though - half the distance across the U.S, and on sand and dirt, fixing your bloody tires while on route. Pain in the rear end. Good adventure though. Who needs Everest when you have the dunes of the Ubari sand sea?
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Oct 5, 2015 14:03
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Oct 5, 2015 14:05
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now show me a whizbang inforgraphic about mountians
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Oct 5, 2015 22:51
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Oct 5, 2015 |
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Oct 5, 2015 23:26
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"Go gently caress Yourself You Don't Know poo poo" a new show about by Aaron Sorkin
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Oct 5, 2015 23:33
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lenoon posted:Very few roads in Britain that you'll actually drive on are Romans - most of our motorways (highways) are routed via major cities and towns, so they are significantly slower than the U.S. Highways even though our speed limits are slightly higher, on average. I've done some big drives in the U.S. and while the big empty middle is boring, you can go quickly and there's little traffic on the interstates. I've done some ridiculous drives in Africa though - half the distance across the U.S, and on sand and dirt, fixing your bloody tires while on route. Pain in the rear end. Good adventure though. Who needs Everest when you have the dunes of the Ubari sand sea? There was a TV show made a few years ago called Trabant Trek where some enterprising young folk decide to do long drives (Europe to Thailand, then EU to South Africa) that would be perilous in an actual car. The Trabant was... not the vehicle I would have chosen.
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Oct 6, 2015 00:26
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monster on a stick posted:I've done the northern route - it can be pretty, if you like long stretches of nothing (the Dakotas) and then Glacier National Park which is amazing. Long as hell though, you really do want to plan things out; not just sightseeing but making sure you stop for a break every few hours, are always topped up on gas, and don't find yourself in the middle of nowhere at 11pm with only a Motel 6 to sleep at. I've done just about every route you can imagine between Southern California and Indiana. To some extent, depending on your approach from the outset, it can get pretty annoying. This is especially the case if you're like me and: 1. Are an American and take the vastness and diversity of the U.S. for granted; 2. You've got a timeline you have to keep However, much like Muslims and the Hajj, I recommend that anyone who can afford to drive across the U.S. Or Canada do so at least once. If you've got time to spend, and stop often, it is an amazing experience. My last trip I did Route 66 east bound and I took 11 days to go from LA to Indianapolis. I could have spent 2 months doing this drive if I did not have to work.
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Oct 10, 2015 23:16
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I highly recommend driving cross country too. I've done Michigan to Los Angeles before. I was totally shocked with the incredible beauty I saw in Utah. Everything was great until we hit Arizona along the 10 Freeway. At that point, you're driving through a level of hell that doesn't end until you hit the border of California. (Seriously, don't break down in Arizona and always watch your gas level.) It's a great way to hit a lot of states you might not visit by regular travel. Also Lufiron that was a great gif. It seems like the Mercator map favors countries above the equator, if we think bigger = better. It definitely doesn't give Africa or Australia a fair shake.
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Oct 11, 2015 01:53
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It actually just favors countries that are farther away from the equator, its not Mercator's fault that there's a huge swath of ocean below southern Africa and Australia that people just forget about most of the time. And the Arizona/California border was surreal back when I went through in the nineties. On one side desert and nothing, on the other the road is lined with palm trees for what seemed like the whole way to the coast.
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Oct 11, 2015 01:56
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What's so hellish about driving through Arizona? Also I'm sure there's modern strategies for long trips - but sans a mobile phone how do you gauge fuel when you know there will be next to none (?) petrol stations. Even in our 'rural' areas we still have little towns with branded petrol stations. Do you pretty much too up at every gas station just to be sure or Jerry can it etc
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Oct 11, 2015 19:07
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Nothing, its not California but its a drat sight better than Kansas/west Texas/northern Ontario or even Nevada.
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Oct 11, 2015 19:18
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I've driven through every state west of the Mississippi, where most of the loving bullshit is, and without a doubt the worst two stretches in the continental United States are the Great Painted Desert of Wyoming and the panhandle of Texas. I sort of enjoyed North Dakota and eastern Washington but there's nothing there except the slightest suggestion of topography. I would say this photograph (intersection w/ I40, which runs through Amarillo) is generous, as apparently they'd had some rain in the last few months and there are suggestions of plants: 
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Oct 11, 2015 20:33
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Pick posted:I've driven through every state west of the Mississippi, where most of the loving bullshit is, and without a doubt the worst two stretches in the continental United States are the Great Painted Desert of Wyoming and the panhandle of Texas. I sort of enjoyed North Dakota and eastern Washington but there's nothing there except the slightest suggestion of topography. Not pictured: the local cop who is desperate to bring some money, ANY MONEY, into his little town by way of traffic tickets. But don't worry, he's out there, hiding behind a rock or something just waiting to get you.
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Oct 11, 2015 20:46
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simosimo posted:What's so hellish about driving through Arizona? Almost all little towns here have gas stations as well. Except in very rural areas, or if you are driving through a large park or something, there may not be any towns at all for hours. A mobile may not help you there because cell phone service is far from guaranteed. On most highways there is a "no services for X miles" sign for particularly desolate stretches, because people are used to every Interstate exit having a gas station. If you are driving for that long, you are (and should be) stopping every few hours anyway to stretch your legs/hit the restroom/whatever, and filling the gas tank while you do that isn't a big deal. I don't know anyone who carries Jerry cans unless they are doing something like the Dempster Highway. (Which I'd love to do someday but  )
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Oct 11, 2015 21:29
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Pick posted:I've driven through every state west of the Mississippi, where most of the loving bullshit is, and without a doubt the worst two stretches in the continental United States are the Great Painted Desert of Wyoming and the panhandle of Texas. I sort of enjoyed North Dakota and eastern Washington but there's nothing there except the slightest suggestion of topography. What is the opposite of everest doing in the everest thread
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Oct 11, 2015 21:30
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"The opposite of tallest mountain is not deepest sea. It is boring flatass plains" -Talmud
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Oct 11, 2015 21:34
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Cliff Racer posted:Not pictured: the local cop who is desperate to bring some money, ANY MONEY, into his little town by way of traffic tickets. But don't worry, he's out there, hiding behind a rock or something just waiting to get you. Its a really surreal drive. You could be driving 90mph and feel like you're going nowhere because there are so few landmarks, and also because the locals are all going 120.
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Oct 11, 2015 22:42
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Overestimating the vastness? There is an old song by Gene Pitney where the guy is breaking up with his lady because he met someone and he was "Only 24 hours from Tulsa, only one day away from your charms." Tulsa is...pretty central. I used to hear this and wonder where the hell he was. Alaska? {And why am I writing this in the Everest thread?)
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Oct 12, 2015 02:58
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zedprime posted:I think you're overestimating the occurrence of towns on I40 through the panhandle. I got pulled over for 72 in a 70 (I was actually going 70) outside Amarillo because I dared to drive with an out of state license plate. Got boxed in by 4 cop cars for a few minutes before one of them turned his lights on and pulled me over.
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Oct 12, 2015 03:50
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Pick posted:I've driven through every state west of the Mississippi, where most of the loving bullshit is, and without a doubt the worst two stretches in the continental United States are the Great Painted Desert of Wyoming and the panhandle of Texas. That's a strong thing to say about the same chunk of land that includes Nebraska.
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Oct 12, 2015 04:27
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Sex Hobbit posted:That's a strong thing to say about the same chunk of land that includes Nebraska.
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Oct 12, 2015 04:33
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