Happy Thought for 31 March 2023

Have a Happy Thought: 


The world can look very different, depending on your perspective.

This is not only true when people go into space, it can be as simple as…

 

Focusing on the water, instead of the land:

AltText: An alternative projection of the Earth, centred on Antarctica, showing how all of the world's oceans are connected to each other. Land is shown as darker portions on the map and take up the periphery.

A map of ocean currents on the Spilhaus map projection, from https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/mapping/spilhaus-more-like-thrillhaus/

 

Or maybe you’re interested in how connected we all are, and you want to see all of the deep-sea cables


AltText: Global map of submarine telecommunication cables, using a more standard projection, centred on the Atlantic Ocean, with land masses taking up most of the image

From https://mastodon.energy/@pauleastwood/109649166925454437

 

 

Or maybe you’re wanting to hide from the world, so you move to New Zealand knowing it keeps getting left off of maps…

Like, there’s even a Wikipedia article about this phenomenon, a Tumblr community, and a Reddit forum.

 

Before I disappear for a few weeks, here’s hoping this has helped you to… shift your perspective 😊

 

 Thanks to David Ho for bringing our attention to the word map focusing on water: https://mastodon.world/@davidho/109421029558016107

Thanks to Paul Eastwood for bringing our attention to the map of undersea cables https://mastodon.energy/@pauleastwood/109649166925454437

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