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That's pretty fun. It's not surprising per se but it does put things in perspective that Texas has a bigger footprint than every country in Europe.

embedding-shape 10mo ago
Yeah, money machine go brrrr is a great sign of "footprint", lets just ignore millenniums of inventions, technology and others things coming from Europe, before the US was even a colony. Texas GDP was $x millions last year, clearly larger footprint on the world :) It's actually pretty fun and interesting the different bubbles we all live in, for better or worse.
- JumpCrisscross 10mo ago
  > lets just ignore millenniums of inventions, technology and others things coming from Europe, before the US was even a colony Those people are dead. They did great things. But it's irrelevant to their standing and influence today.
  - embedding-shape 10mo ago
    True, like how Silicon Valley should change it name, because Gordon Moore died so lets forget everything he ever did.
    - thesmtsolver2 10mo ago
      No place in the US has "Silicon Valley" as its formal name.
- sharkjacobs 10mo ago
  I meant the geographic footprint. I was surprised by how big Texas is, even though it is famously big.
- thesmtsolver2 10mo ago
  A lot of those discoveries were actually made elsewhere ( not the majority, but an embarrassingly significant amount) https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/indians-predated-newton-discovery-by-250-years/ https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/indians-predated-new... https://sd2.org/bibha-chowdhuri-a-woman-of-firsts-with-no-recognition/ https://sd2.org/bibha-chowdhuri-a-woman-of-firsts-with-no-re... > After the war ended, Cecil Powell, a British physicist, continued the research in England using similar methods with more sensitive plates, detecting a new particle and winning him the Nobel Prize in 1950. Chowdhury and Bose’s work was acknowledged in his book, but their recognition quickly faded. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/01/hidden-story-ancient-india-west-maths-astronomy-historians https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/01/hidden... https://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/fibfibs.pdf https://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/fibfibs.pdf
nebula8804 10mo ago
There is a much nicer visual tool that helps you visualize this: https://thetruesize.com/ https://thetruesize.com/. (It works best on desktop) You can place a state/country on top of another country and see the true size. Helps to make up for the improper sizing caused by map projections. I use it to help my lovely dutch friends realize why I can't just bike to work. :)

embedding-shape 10mo ago

Yeah, money machine go brrrr is a great sign of "footprint", lets just ignore millenniums of inventions, technology and others things coming from Europe, before the US was even a colony. Texas GDP was $x millions last year, clearly larger footprint on the world :) It's actually pretty fun and interesting the different bubbles we all live in, for better or worse.

JumpCrisscross 10mo ago
> lets just ignore millenniums of inventions, technology and others things coming from Europe, before the US was even a colony Those people are dead. They did great things. But it's irrelevant to their standing and influence today.
- embedding-shape 10mo ago
  True, like how Silicon Valley should change it name, because Gordon Moore died so lets forget everything he ever did.
  - thesmtsolver2 10mo ago
    No place in the US has "Silicon Valley" as its formal name.
sharkjacobs 10mo ago
I meant the geographic footprint. I was surprised by how big Texas is, even though it is famously big.
thesmtsolver2 10mo ago
A lot of those discoveries were actually made elsewhere ( not the majority, but an embarrassingly significant amount) https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/indians-predated-newton-discovery-by-250-years/ https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/indians-predated-new... https://sd2.org/bibha-chowdhuri-a-woman-of-firsts-with-no-recognition/ https://sd2.org/bibha-chowdhuri-a-woman-of-firsts-with-no-re... > After the war ended, Cecil Powell, a British physicist, continued the research in England using similar methods with more sensitive plates, detecting a new particle and winning him the Nobel Prize in 1950. Chowdhury and Bose’s work was acknowledged in his book, but their recognition quickly faded. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/01/hidden-story-ancient-india-west-maths-astronomy-historians https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/01/hidden... https://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/fibfibs.pdf https://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/fibfibs.pdf

nebula8804 10mo ago

There is a much nicer visual tool that helps you visualize this: https://thetruesize.com/ https://thetruesize.com/. (It works best on desktop) You can place a state/country on top of another country and see the true size. Helps to make up for the improper sizing caused by map projections. I use it to help my lovely dutch friends realize why I can't just bike to work. :)