That projection is truly mind-bending.
One wonders if this is perhaps a subtle dig at Kansas’s waaaay out there fringe politics.
Oh, that’s a very useful map, if you want to figure out what direction to go to reach Kansas.
Carry on My Wayward Map.
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In a certain way, it is. If you’re in Texas, head towards Oklahoma to get to Kansas. If you’re in Illinois, don’t head towards Indiana, head towards Missouri or Iowa.
Don’t matter where you start. Just go in a straight line and soon enough you’ll be in Kansas. Yes, some routes are more direct than others. But all straight routes lead to Kansas.
It’s sorta like to being at the North pole: whichever direction you choose to go, it’s gonna be South.
Not really, since neither great circles nor cardinal directions are straight lines on that map.
That’s a feature, not a bug!
But to stay serious, the straight lines in one metric space are not going to be straight lines in another. For example, great circles are not going to be straight in non-spherical metric spaces.
There are some map projections which turn all great circles on a sphere into straight lines on the flat map, and vice-versa. Unfortunately, these projections all map the circle at 90º from the center of the projection to an infinite distance away on the map, so it’s impossible to put any locale on the boundary.
“They”???
God’s non-binary
That’s one of the twisted-funniest in awhile.
I’ve been off the internet for a few days (believe me, it was tramatic) so you’re going to get two strips posted in a row.
The similarities between Pole Vault and the recent Routine Maintenance make me wonder if Randall is worried about some geophysical catastrophe involving lava; lots and lots of lava.
Now I think I should research Unicode characters for more obscure bracket symbols. Maybe ☞ and ☜.【 】looks good too.
And just for completeness, the French animorph might also be programming a Hewlett-Packard calculator.
He’s been obsessed with supervolcanos for a while.
I feel like he’s missing the interesting question: for an Earth-sized balloon, is it actually possible for a human to pop it with sports equipment?