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> We are not taught to question it, even by our teachers Was I just unusually lucky? In grade school my teacher spent several weeks teaching us about different
by thayne 4y ago
> We are not taught to question it, even by our teachers
Was I just unusually lucky? In grade school my teacher spent several weeks teaching us about different map projections, and how there are pros and cons, and none are perfect because the earth is round but maps are flat. And we even talked about how having north at the top is rather arbitrary, and having south at the top would work just as well.
- bombcar 4y agoOurs went into detail about how even a globe is inaccurate because the oblate spheroid.
- cplusplusfellow 4y agoThe entire purpose of the article is race baiting against so-called “insecure white men”, so substantiated claims aren’t needed.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoWe didn't learn about projections per-se, but more than one teacher brought a globe to class, just to show how arctic and antarctic areas are spread out on 2d maps, and to show the distorsion when trying to draw stuff on a sphere onto a 2d paper.