Posted on 03/21/2022 10:05:17 AM PDT by nickcarraway
ideo showing the true size of Russia compared to Africa has gone viral on TikTok as social media users learn about the misrepresentation of scale on many world maps.
First posted in late February, the video had gained around 8.5 million views as of March 14 with just under 400,000 likes.
In the video, footage of an interactive map shows an outline of Russia, which at first appears to dominate a huge section of the map. However, as the outline is dragged down towards the continent of Africa and the equator, Russia begins to shrink. By the time the outline of Russia is placed on the equator, it is significantly smaller than it appeared at first and is dwarfed by the continent of Africa.
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Well, there was no boat you could take to Malawi.
Think of it. There are a lot of Canadians who live South of you.
I think it is a significant point. Russia and especially Canada have a lot of unusable land. Canada, is, in effect, a very small country, and it's population is only about 38 milllion.
And just as many bugs.
Australia is another country with a lot of unusable land, and I think Brazil has a fair amount too.
We need, desperately, to get back to the spirit of your post: Giving thanks!
Had this one at school as well as the mercator
Balance the accomplishments and contributions to the modern world of mostly ANT of the aggregates against Africa’s and see who comes up short. Square miles, miles, distance, separation, isolation and on and on are still the same..
Priceless! Kudos.
sh-h-e-e-e-e-e-e-t.
Yes, a 2-D Sheet.
I actually knew a kid who was a graduate of Principe College - that’s a small liberal arts college in downstate Illinois associated with the Christian Scientists. He was actually a pretty good guy, and very smart; by the time he got married a few years after graduating, he was dealing with standard medicine almost as much as you’d see in the general population. I expect his wife had something to do with that.
Too much Hank Johnson will rot your brain!
You’re a SOUTHERNER! We are at 47.76 degrees north.
Russia had 143 million residents, citizen and others, in 2015. Their population is shrinking. Their population growth was 0% in 2019 and -0.2% in 2020. And 74% of their population lives in the cities. Lots of open country.
The population figure I quoted included New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea as well.
I think the Mapparium needs to do some updating before they get accused of colonialism by the wokesters.
You seem to ignore entirely that the teachers in most cases are doing exactly what the administrator want them to do.
It is a myth that administrators can't fire teachers, they don't have to, they just make their duties so bad they can't take it and they leave. Besides they don't want to fire the teachers you detest, they want to fire the teachers that think like you do.
Interesting.
Obviously Mr. Mercator made his projection because he was a racist and wanted to make white dominated countries look bigger than black countries. (coming soon to a classroom near you.)
Bucky Fuller....Not so much...😀
Gauss, Riemann, Christoffel, Levi-Civita, Voss, Weyl, ... Probably...😎
Einstein, Minkowski... Maybe...😏
Biden, Harris... Never...😟
I think there were plenty of stupid people back in the day, but they could do less damage overall.
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