https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo What Does Earth Look Like Notes en-us 2020-09-11 16:24:01 UTC 2020-09-14 06:42:25 UTC hello@padlet.com s2041056 https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/742773487 The amount of distortion in the Mercator projection is fascinating.]]> 2020-09-14 04:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/742773487 s2041056 https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/742776904 There is no perfect flat map. All flat maps are distorted. ]]> 2020-09-14 04:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/742776904 s2041056 https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/742796297 Countries closer to the North Pole are exaggerated in size.]]> 2020-09-14 04:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/742796297 s2041056 https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/742829658 The Gall-Peters projection has the right size, but the shape of countries is a little bit distorted. ]]> 2020-09-14 04:39:28 UTC https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/742829658 s2041056 https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/742880198 There are 8.5 million species in this world and we only discovered 1.5 - 2 million of them.]]> 2020-09-14 05:06:48 UTC https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/742880198 s2041056 https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/742915498 The human eye can only see specific colors which is bias because we cannot see the full true appearance of things.]]> 2020-09-14 05:25:33 UTC https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/742915498 s2041056 https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/742988821 if our eyes can sense other frequencies, everything will seem completely different than what it looks like now.]]> 2020-09-14 06:04:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/742988821 s2041056 https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/742993665 With ultraviolet vision, the sphere would be unrecognizable.]]> 2020-09-14 06:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/742993665 s2041056 https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/743056636 Although Greenland is 1/14 the size of Africa, on the Mercator projection, it seems like both the continent and country have the same size.]]> 2020-09-14 06:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/s2041056/qkemtr81w6nkozvo/wish/743056636