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Senor Dog posted:How do you get any freakin work done in the yellow zones.
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I'd like to think that the color scale matches the color of precipitation in those countries. Sucks to be Burma.
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Senor Dog posted:How do you get any freakin work done in the yellow zones. Grow drugs?
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I'm the Mojave Desert and its 624-748mm of rain a year.
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Oct 13, 2017 18:32
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I'm the consistent rainfall across the entire US
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TheKennedys posted:I'm the consistent rainfall across the entire US I'm curious now as to where they pulled those numbers from. If the graph dealt in averages, it'd be silly but would at least make sense; 624 to 748 is not an average.
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Oct 13, 2017 18:48
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It has too many subdivisions.
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Oct 13, 2017 18:51
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i'm the gaps between each range
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Oct 13, 2017 19:51
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Slow down, tubby! You're not on the moon yet.
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Oct 13, 2017 20:03
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 Who thought this was a good idea?
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Actually, it shows direction and extent pretty well. Funny that so little of the U.S. is in direct view.
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Oct 14, 2017 18:13
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Thats a cool graph
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Oct 14, 2017 19:04
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That's pretty hilariously dumb and awesome.
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Oct 14, 2017 19:18
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I was just about to complain how the results don't actually make sense but it seems to be covered by the barely legible methodology description 
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Oct 14, 2017 19:53
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The moon of earth. It anxiously awaits the arrival of our astromen.
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Pastry of the Year posted:lmfao this is ruining me Yellow is eating crabs you found on the ground Orange is starting at Eva's tits Peach is getting your balls squeezed
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Foxhound posted:The moon of earth. It anxiously awaits the arrival of our astromen. It longs for their weight to be added to it's mass
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UWBW posted:
Just checked this in Google maps and unless there is some insane mercator projection voodoo going on, there is no way Cuba has a larger sector than the USA. Florida alone should be similar to Cuba.
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Ireland is far north enough that there is some distortion from the Mercator projection, but I don't know if that's enough to explain that particular oddity.
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Could someone tell me what part of Russia it hits?
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BonHair posted:Could someone tell me what part of Russia it hits? If you go north between Faroes and Greenland, you should wrap around the North Pole and hit Russia on your way south. E: You should hit Russian mainland near the Kolyma River mouth. There is Svalbard in the way if you try anything to the west of that. steinrokkan has a new favorite as of 16:06 on Oct 15, 2017 |
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Looks like if you draw a straight line it would probably go to somewhere in Irkutsk.
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CharlieWhiskey posted:Just checked this in Google maps and unless there is some insane mercator projection voodoo going on, there is no way Cuba has a larger sector than the USA. Florida alone should be similar to Cuba. Straight lines on a Mercator map are rhumb lines, not great circles, so yeah, that’s going on. But I still get a bigger sector for the U.S. than for Cuba. Also, the Bahamas should screen significant portions of Cuba.   I probably should have used the same colours as the original, but I didn’t. So sue me. e: Okay, so the problem here is that Google Earth uses rhumb lines for the sides of ground‐level polygons because their programmers were dropped on their heads as infants. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 20:54 on Oct 15, 2017 |
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UWBW posted:
 Conclusive proof of the Flat Earth right there!
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Ireland On Wacky Plate Recipe
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Coming to this page my first reaction was "now that's an interesting hurricane prediction map"
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Joint invasion of Ireland from Cuban Communists and the USA 
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Platystemon posted:Straight lines on a Mercator map are rhumb lines, not great circles, so yeah, that’s going on. Pretty sure a single line works properly though.  You can see how Canada blocks most of the US aside from half of Florida.
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Dragonwagon posted:Pretty sure a single line works properly though. Pretty sure you don't understand the issue.
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jeebus bob posted:Pretty sure you don't understand the issue. I think you're just projecting.
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jeebus bob posted:Pretty sure you don't understand the issue. What do you mean? Platystemon used the ground-level polygon tool which gave him rhumb lines. I used the line tool which (I assume) goes along a great circle, so it actually shows how the people making the graph got their results.
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Dragonwagon posted:What do you mean?  I accidentally illustrated the “insane mercator projection voodoo” that CharlieWhiskey was talking about. To be fair to Gerardus Mercator, his projection is useful for navigation. It’s not his fault it’s misused and misunderstood centuries after his time.
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Dragonwagon posted:I used the line tool which (I assume) goes along a great circle, so it actually shows how the people making the graph got their results. Oh dang, my bad. I just thought it looked like you'd drawn a straight line on an off-center portion of a picture of a randomly tilted globe, ignoring curvature and whatnot.
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Olive! posted:I think you're just projecting.  This post didn't get nearly enough love.
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I wonder if theres a great circle you can go around and only cross one country, or even none at all.
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Dragonwagon posted:I wonder if theres a great circle you can go around and only cross one country, or even none at all. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/60th_parallel_south
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Dragonwagon posted:I wonder if theres a great circle you can go around and only cross one country, or even none at all. I've heard this one described as the longest great circle sea-only voyage possible, Pakistan to Russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpQwuGueeoA
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That's not a great circle. A great circle has to have the same diameter as the sphere it lies on. Longitude lines are great circles, but except for the equator latitude lines are not.
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