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Patrick:

--- Quote from: Doug S. Machina on 25 Mar 2008, 05:05 ---The world's nations blown up according to the most scientific papers published.

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Goddamn, it's like Japan and England ate the moon or something.

CardinalFang:

--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 25 Mar 2008, 21:07 ---The Dymaxion map is 100% accurate. You only have to start distorting things when you want everything laid out all neat.

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I'm curious as to how it can be 100% accurate because I believe you have to start distorting things when you project the surface of a sphere onto a flat plane. From what I can find the Dymaxion projection is more accurate but it still has some distortion.

From Wiki:
"Fuller claimed his map had several advantages over other projections for world maps.

It has less distortion of relative size of areas, most notably when compared to the Mercator projection; and less distortion of shapes of areas, notably when compared to the Gall-Peters projection. Other compromise projections attempt a similar trade-off."

From http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/shop/geni_products/products.shtml
"This map is the world's most accurate global projection. It has at most a 2% distortion at any one place."

From http://users.design.ucla.edu/~djvmc/24/bucky/map.html
"Like all flat maps, it evidences the distortions that result from the translation of the three-dimensional surface of a sphere to a flat plane. Its distortions, however, are distributed proportionately within each of its 14 segments and are nowhere extreme"

And here's a nifty site that will probably tell you more about map projections than you really want to know.
http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/TOC/cartTOC.html

Patrick:
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23440568-5012895,00.html

A man thinks he's God so he's like "Fuck this shit I'm not going to court."

Science McSciencerson says that Sirhan Sirhan might not have fired the fatal shot that killed Bobby Kennedy, and that there was more than one shooter. 13 shots fired and Sirhan Sirhan's gun only held 8 and other such stuff.

ITS A CONSPIRACY GUYZ OMG

Tom:
Guys just so you know, the Daily Telegraph in Sydney is a tabloid. The Sydney Morning Herald is quite possibly the only good NSW centric paper. It is also a broadsheet.

Patrick:
Tabloids have funny stuff, do they not?

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