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> Proper scale makes the visualization impractical. So lie? You can see from the comments most Hacker News users can't handle the abstraction. Your blog post
by NedF 1y ago
> Proper scale makes the visualization impractical.
So lie?
You can see from the comments most Hacker News users can't handle the abstraction.
Your blog post is great, but most people don't know the Earth is a perfect sphere or simple things like the sun is white, the real "Don't Look Up"
Universities have become pop culture, they are Gravity (2013), not 'science', whatever that word means now.
We cross mountains so that abstraction has a use, here it is for the nihilist crowd.
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]
- poulpy123 1y ago> So lie? You're going to enjoy the log scale
- maybewhenthesun 1y ago> So lie? Any 'visualisation' is a 'lie'. If you look at google maps you'd think the distance between New York and Los Angeles is about 3 inch (depending on your zoom factor). If you manage to grasp that abstraction, you might think the roads are about 5 miles wide. etc etc. where to draw the line.
- philipwhiuk 1y ago> If you look at google maps you'd think the distance between New York and Los Angeles is about 3 inch (depending on your zoom factor) But not twice the distance between Sacremento and San Jose.
- fragmede 1y ago> Your blog post is great, but most people don't know the Earth is a perfect sphere Typo? The Earth is a an oblate spheroid, slighly flattened out at the poles and wider at the equator.