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On maps, I find it surprising and hilarious that the UN has a flat earth map on its logo! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_Nations https://en.w
by feralimal 6y ago
On maps, I find it surprising and hilarious that the UN has a flat earth map on its logo!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_Nations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_Nations
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoCould you explain why you find it so funny? Are you proposing their flag should be spherical instead of a flat sheet?
- OJFord 6y agoI think GP means that the projection used appears to be an Azimuthal equidistant projection [0] - which doesn't really make it a 'flat Earth map' as such, but if the Earth were flat I suppose it would be the only logical (non) projection. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuthal_equidistant_projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuthal_equidistant_projecti...
- arethuza 6y agoIs there a schism in the Flat Earth community about which pole is a point and which is a circle?
- OJFord 6y agoWell presumably there's no accepted concept of a 'pole'. (If there were, yes I'm sure the Antarctican Flat Earth community is adamant it is the inverse of the above link..!) But, generalising, 'where is the centre', I don't know. Back in the day they presumably didn't claim to know, because obviously nobody had reached the edge, so there was just known area, and unknown beyond it, in every direction.
- arethuza 6y agoThe Charlie Stross story "Missile Gap" has a literal flat Earth and just that "and unknown beyond it, in every direction"... The 'Earth' there definitely doesn't have poles.