Posted on 03/21/2022 10:05:17 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Everyone I have ever talked to about it who has seen it had the same reaction I did. They couldn’t believe how big Africa was.
That was my main takeaway (along with how cool and interesting the globe itself was)
Geodesics are a bitch...
It is beautiful-but even the process of flattening it into a 2-Dimensional photo removes that striking element!
But it is beautiful to look at.
Spent many years in Boston, and never even knew this Mapparium thing existed. Thanks for posting - I really hope I have a chance to check it out sometime in the future.
“A nation is smaller than a continent.”
Unless you count Australia
Australia...3.27 million sq miles
Russia...6,592,735 million square miles
The former USSR was 8.65 million sq miles. Losing it’s empire cost Russia approximately 2,057,265 sq miles.
For grins and giggles...the USA is 3.80 million sq miles. Roughly half the size of Russia. Half the size of Russia. Let that sink in.
A true scale map comparing the US to Africa would certainly not be a winner for us.
But “Africa” per se exists only on maps of continents, and Russia is not a continent. It is ridiculous to lump all of the African peoples and their territories (including modern state boundaries) into one giant glob.
Russia is a country with a political government, and it exists across two continents (Europe and Asia) as a country, not a “personal continent.”
If you want to talk about contempt for and neglect of African populations and their boundaries and existence, you couldn’t get a better example.
Africa always wins.
But when it comes to size, as every Arrogant Worm knows, Canada is Really, Really Big
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOM-TmZBzZo
I’ve been there—it’s a must-see, and impressive.
Darkness, Ice, snow and rocks for 8 months of the year then dirt and rocks for the remaining four. No trees, no landscaping, nothing........
No wonder it leads the world in suicides and alcoholism.......
Another way of looking at the relative sizes is in terms of arable land.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/269235/arable-land-worldwide-by-region/
Or in terms of population.
https://www.worldometers.info/geography/7-continents/
I’ve read that. I think Russia also has less than half the population as the U.S. (140 million I think).
i was taught that the globe projections onto paper cause distortions... i blame the teachers today, for now they are seeing a conspiracy of shrinking Africa.
tell that to australia.
Mercator projection.
Laying all those densely-populated countries on top is definitely going to sink it.
I have a 20-inch standing floor globe in my office that I bought when my oldest child was 5. We kept it in our living room until they all went off to college.
It shows the Soviet Union, so it probably is not up to date. Hopefully, it is no like my old silk ties that come back into fashion after several years.
Hmmm....I guess we're back to nations are smaller than continents. LOL
Cool! I would like to go see that.
I toured the Christian Science Mapparium when I was in high school and still remember it almost 50 years later. It is worth a visit if you are ever in Boston.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mapparium
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