![]() ![]() The Mercator projection ( / m ər ˈ k eɪ t ər/) is a cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. Mercator 1569 world map ( Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata) showing latitudes 66°S to 80°N. The Mercator projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation. Note the size comparison of Greenland and Africa. True believers, however, are an extreme minority, and there will always be people who choose to believe in “alternative facts.” Let’s hope they remain a minority.Cylindrical conformal map projection Mercator projection of the world between 85°S and 85°N. ![]() Should we bother to convince Flat Earthers they’re wrong? Some on the internet could be trolls toying with arguments and theories. “Our system needs to train you not only what to know, but how to think about information, knowledge and evidence,” he said. Or Google has laid cables across the oceans to track you.Īstrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson blames the educational system - not for teaching insufficient science subjects so much as needing to improve critical thinking skills. ![]() Or the signals are really from giant towers and the G stands for ground. GPS satellites aren’t in space - there’s a “celestial dome” over the Earth. ![]() Anyone who tries is met with an argument that their evidence is faked or faulty. How do Flat Earthers explain GPS? Is there a way to convince them that they’re wrong? Probably not. So far, he’s raised less than $7,000 of his $1 million target. B.o.B.’s campaign wants to “launch multiple weather balloons and satellites into space” to observe (and try to disprove) what centuries of science and technology have already confirmed. used Twitter to jump on the flat Earth bandwagon, even starting a GoFundMe campaign to find Earth’s curve. Last year, the flat Earth idea became national news when rapper B.o.B. The 1893 Orlando Ferguson map imagines Antarctica as a wall of ice around the world. ![]()
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