Ermintruder
The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all...
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Ok, I've mislaid my actual notes for this...submitted proposition-cum-observation, so I should wait. But I've got masses and masses of unformed Fortean threads and thoughts that I've not yet shared: and may yet never so do.
So: dammit, here goes.
I've briefly mentioned previously on this forum that I've always puzzled over *exactly* why it is that so much of the depicted land masses on a classic world transverse mercator map of the world seem to be so similar to each-other.....
No....I don't just mean the tectonic plate tessellation of the drift-seperated east coast of North/South America, with the west coast edge of Africa.
Nor that to a close approximation the impression that South America and Africa are so continentally-convergent in overall shape as to almost (subjectively) be near cartographic cousins.
I'll go so far as to say that the fundamental wedge-shaped broad north, tapering south, and western edge promentary are jumping out at me from all over the global map.
How can this be???? I'd love it to be somehow down to supernatural reasons.....but it's probably caused by confirmation bias, subjective selectivity and other such boring reasons.
In your own time: go ahead and call me a fool...but....what is going on? Mapping artefacts...? Map projection type...? It's difficult to unsee once seen (although that is probably just a simulacrum--style effect....or is it?)
So: dammit, here goes.
I've briefly mentioned previously on this forum that I've always puzzled over *exactly* why it is that so much of the depicted land masses on a classic world transverse mercator map of the world seem to be so similar to each-other.....
No....I don't just mean the tectonic plate tessellation of the drift-seperated east coast of North/South America, with the west coast edge of Africa.
Nor that to a close approximation the impression that South America and Africa are so continentally-convergent in overall shape as to almost (subjectively) be near cartographic cousins.
I'll go so far as to say that the fundamental wedge-shaped broad north, tapering south, and western edge promentary are jumping out at me from all over the global map.
How can this be???? I'd love it to be somehow down to supernatural reasons.....but it's probably caused by confirmation bias, subjective selectivity and other such boring reasons.
In your own time: go ahead and call me a fool...but....what is going on? Mapping artefacts...? Map projection type...? It's difficult to unsee once seen (although that is probably just a simulacrum--style effect....or is it?)
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