Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Maps, Maps, gimme more Maps

This is kinda cool.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0332239320071203?pageNumber=4&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true

Posted by Andrew at 10:29 AM

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9 comments:

_J_ said...

The result, published two years later, is stunningly accurate and surprisingly modern.

Accurate?

...I guess...

December 5, 2007 at 12:37 PM
Andrew said...

did you read this article?

December 5, 2007 at 2:25 PM
_J_ said...

Well, for not having read it myself I'd say that my assessment is stunningly accurate and surprisngly modern.



...yes, I read it.

December 5, 2007 at 2:43 PM
Andrew said...

I just think it is neat that it was as close as it was with no knowlege of the other coast. but on the monks further reasoning he reasoned his way farther from accuracy.
It would also have been neat if Terra de Cuba or Terra Incognita had stuck.

December 5, 2007 at 3:17 PM
_J_ said...

indeed.

I like how the United States looks like Lindsay Lohan did for those few months when she died her hair blonde and stopped eating and how South American is just one sad, sad scrotum forever extending to the south.

Also, that they threw an ocean over there was a nice touch. I guess if they have to choose between "a bunch of land" or "ocean" for an unseen, unexplored area of earth they're prone to think "ocean".

I don't know if that's pessimistic or not.

December 5, 2007 at 4:11 PM
Andrew said...

later he picked more land and connected it to asia.

December 5, 2007 at 5:51 PM
Kylebrown said...

It is actually very surprising that they did not pick more land for the unknown area. They had no clue that 75% of the world's surface is water at the time.

December 6, 2007 at 12:34 PM
Caleb said...

no clue

December 6, 2007 at 1:50 PM
_J_ said...

How did they know that there was not an infinite amount of space between the western coast of north/south american and the japan and that other stuff over there?

December 6, 2007 at 3:44 PM

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