March 8th, 2018: Wyld’s Great Globe
The Flat Earth Society has members around the globe. Huh? :whofart:
There are still people who believe, (I think pretend for shits & giggles) the Earth is flat. I remember drugs that made me think the Earth was all kinds of shapes… but I digress. For 2,000 years educated people have know the Earth is round… hmm guest that leaves out much of facebook, twitter, 4chan… But knowing the Earth is round, and hearing of far off places, didn’t help figuring out what the Earth looked like. Quote:
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Step inside! Hello! We've a most amazing show You'll enjoy it all we know Step inside! Step inside! Quote:
You can see a 20th/21st century version, the Mapparium in Boston. http://cellar.org/2017/wyld3.jpg Not as big, but it covers the ground, and easier to see up close and personal. Plus easier to change political boundries. link |
Great, now I have Karn Evil 9 stuck in my head. Gonna take all day to get that out of there..
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In Yarmouth Maine, of all places, is the world's largest rotating globe. In the lobby of DeLorme headquarters.
It's worth a stop if you are driving up into the state. It was free when I last went. Attachment 63380 |
I love globes.
I have one with an inside light that separates land forms from political boundaries and use it often. I can't really grasp the advantage of the inside one. |
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With an inside-out globe, you get the undistorted layout that globes provide, can see much more of it at once, and can use the full size of the dome you're able to construct. Plus, the hollow-earthers (separate group from the flat-earthers) will flock to it. |
Yes, the point of building this was to educate people as to the locations, the relationship between places people had only heard of. On the outside of a large globe you can only see snippets of those relationships.
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Re the Boston Mapparium.
I'm puzzled by this. I would have expected to see all the land areas back to front when viewed from the inside. It's analogous to the view from inside a shop which has sign writing on the window, you'll see it all backwards. Perhaps it's me.... :) Link |
It's us.
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If you have a 9 meter diameter glass ball you can paint a map on the outside to be viewed from the outside, or you can paint a map on the inside to be viewed from the inside.
(Yeah it can be painted on either side to be viewed from the opposite side but regardless.) If viewed from the outside you can only see a small portion, but from the inside you can see the relationship between the land masses. That's what Wyld and the Mapparium were trying to accomplish. Plus it's dryer if it rains.;) |
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