finally! a proper map.

[pilvikki]

well, except for the political part:

world in proportion

[yogi]

Can you publish it so that a person without a Facebook account can see it?

[tomsk]

yes please...
x

[pilvikki]

oh shoot. I screwed up, thought i'd copied the article address, but got didi's fb page instead. dur.

let's see if I can find it....

[pilvikki]

here we go, it's an atlas obscura page:

mapparium

[yogi]

I guess it's great to see the continents from the inside out, but, who actually does that kind of thing?

[pilvikki]

which?

i'd be right in there snooping around!

[yogi]

It's just the difference between a concave world view vs a convex one. The reality is that South America is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean instead of directly under North America. Does anybody really care?

[pilvikki]

you're talking to an OCD poster child here.... not knowing the dimensions, positions, size etc has always bugged me. silly, I know, considering one still only sees a very restricted area of real estate at a time. like right now, maybe 50 sq yards onto the street....

[yogi]

I've always been in awe of those pictures of the earth taken from the moon. It puts things in perspective.

[pilvikki]

and then, the one "you are here" with the galaxie...

[yogi]

The size of it all is incomprehensible. We obviously are insignificant from a galactic or beyond perspective. Our importance is all in our minds apparently.

[pilvikki]

and yet, lately the "no man is an island" has been turned into "i'm a continent, you hear!"

[yogi]

It's all about self-awareness. The photographs show how small our range of awareness truly is. No man being an island points out how everything is interrelated, but really, how can one person obtain a true perspective on their galactic significance? And, our galaxy is but one of billions.