http://www.starchamber.com/2010/01/flatten-the-world.html Ned Gulley's Blog. Resident buzzwords: wise crowds, accelerated design, swarm robotics, synthetic biology. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:08:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.starchamber.com/2010/01/flatten-the-world.html/comment-page-1#comment-190321 Tish Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:40:02 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/?p=3671#comment-190321 oh my, map projections really are a drug. what a treasuretrove! I'm about to go on a tall ship - I hope to question the navigator on their projections and what maps they use to cross the oceans. (bet the answer is: just use GPS, silly) oh my, map projections really are a drug. what a treasuretrove! I’m about to go on a tall ship – I hope to question the navigator on their projections and what maps they use to cross the oceans. (bet the answer is: just use GPS, silly)

]]> http://www.starchamber.com/2010/01/flatten-the-world.html/comment-page-1#comment-152733 Ben Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:08:42 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/?p=3671#comment-152733 Great. Just remember whose fault it is when I end up cartographed out of my mind in some Thai Atlas den. Great. Just remember whose fault it is when I end up cartographed out of my mind in some Thai Atlas den.

]]> http://www.starchamber.com/2010/01/flatten-the-world.html/comment-page-1#comment-152649 Ned Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:22:05 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/?p=3671#comment-152649 Good point! And from the looks of it they got some nice beachfront property on that Southern Ocean. I always wanted to retire to a nice beach down south... Good point! And from the looks of it they got some nice beachfront property on that Southern Ocean. I always wanted to retire to a nice beach down south…

]]> http://www.starchamber.com/2010/01/flatten-the-world.html/comment-page-1#comment-152647 Mike O Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:13:23 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/?p=3671#comment-152647 This reminds me of my ongoing feud with my kids over the existence of a Southern Ocean. According to "the Powers that Be," the Southern Ocean comprises the vast swath of water stretching across the bottom of the world, so obvious on any Mercator map, such as Google Earth or the NOAA map. Of course, those vanishingly few of us who still use atlases or actual globes point out that the Southern Ocean has a <a href="http://www.aad.gov.au/MediaLibrary/asset/mediaitems/ml_394227373726852_ant_sthn_ocean_13438_550pix.jpg" rel="nofollow">bloody great continent right in the middle of it</a>! This reminds me of my ongoing feud with my kids over the existence of a Southern Ocean. According to “the Powers that Be,” the Southern Ocean comprises the vast swath of water stretching across the bottom of the world, so obvious on any Mercator map, such as Google Earth or the NOAA map. Of course, those vanishingly few of us who still use atlases or actual globes point out that the Southern Ocean has a bloody great continent right in the middle of it!

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