March 8th, 2018: Wyld’s Great Globe

[Diaphone Jim]

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.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Diaphone Jim

I can't really grasp the advantage of the inside one.

People magnet, and bragging rights.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Diaphone Jim

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.

To make a regular globe that large would require an even larger dome around it, and people would have a harder time seeing all of it.

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.

[xoxoxoBruce]

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.

[Carruthers]

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....

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[Griff]

It's us.

[xoxoxoBruce]

It's analogous to the view from inside a shop which has sign writing on the window, you'll see it all backwards.

Not if the sign writing was painted to be viewed from the inside.

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

It's analogous to the view from inside a shop which has sign writing on the window, you'll see it all backwards.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Not if the sign writing was painted to be viewed from the inside.

Walk this way for the Hall of Mirrors!