One Land Mass in One Ocean ie The Dymaxion Map Thread

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― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 March 2003 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion Map.

The least distortion of land mass of any map in the history of mankind.

Shows the Earth's continents as a connected singular mass (if you consider South-Pacific-Island-Chain as connecting Australia to Asia) in one body of water.

Say something interesting about this map, about the world today, whatever you want. I just needed to stick this on here, because I'm all about Earth, and I'm scared for what will have happened to it by the week's end.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 March 2003 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

It's the best flat map, because it doesn't place any one continent at the "center" - i.e., your eye isn't automatically drawn to one place or another. Bucky did that on purpose. Somewhere I've got a book where he talks about this.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

If you look at the outline of the map it looks like a funny three legged camel with huge frog eyes.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

No, it looks like a duck tipping over while exhaling smoke.

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

It makes Asia, Europe and Africa look like one large mass.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

haha dunedin is still at the edge of everything!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Christ Antarctica's fucking HUGE!

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

and madagascar looks really big, even though it's been cut in half.

― chris (chris), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

Where is Greenland? I always judge a map's accuracy by how large it displays Greenland, and this map doesn't display it at all! Weird!

― kate (kate), Thursday, 10 July 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Greenland surely that white bit sticking out of the arctic immediately above Canada?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 10 July 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

That can't be Greenland, it's shaped completely wrong.

Maybe it doesn't distort size, but it certainly seems to distort shape!

― kate (kate), Thursday, 10 July 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Greenland is where my eye is drawn. How can you possibly say it's not the immediate focal point?

I can't help feeling that anyone who can't just deal with a globe but needs distortion-as-reality just needs to try a bit harder.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 10 July 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny, I recognised it by its shape. It's pretty much contiguous with the polar ice cap, isn't? So where the white of the arctic ends of the white of Greenland starts is anyone's bleedin' guess.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 10 July 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

But it's not contiguous with the polar cap there. It seems to be contiguous with, like, Newfoundland or something.

― kate (kate), Thursday, 10 July 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, the ice cap has its tendrils into northernmost Canada and, jutting out of the main body of the ice cap at two o'clock is Greenland.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 10 July 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a dirty great channel between Newfoundland and Greenland on there isn't there? And the ice cap is seen linking Greenland straight upwards and then all the little islands off to the bottom right?

― chris (chris), Thursday, 10 July 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh! THERE is Greenland! I was looking at Nova Scotia and the rest of the Maritimes which is pretty much linked to Newfoundland.

Wow. WHat's Greenland doing over there?

― kate (kate), Thursday, 10 July 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the key with Greenland: don't look for something that's green.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 10 July 2003 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I was just looking for something detached.

― kate (kate), Thursday, 10 July 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

We'd all like something detached, Kate. Perhaps with a garden. But you won't find it in Greenland (for reasons already stated).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 10 July 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd settle for a stone Viking longhouse or something...

― kate (kate), Thursday, 10 July 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

― abusive comments (PappaWheelie V), Monday, 13 October 2008 02:00 (seventeen years ago)

I'm all about Earth, and I'm scared for what will have happened to it by the week's end.

wtf was this about

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 13 October 2008 02:14 (seventeen years ago)

March 26, 2003
* A meteor exploded over the midwest, showering Park Forest, Illinois with dozens of meteorite fragments.

I doubt that's it, though. Maybe:

March 20, 2003
* 2003 Iraq war: The 2003 invasion of Iraq begins as land troops from United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Poland attack.

― Casuistry, Monday, 13 October 2008 03:38 (seventeen years ago)

halcyon days

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 13 October 2008 03:40 (seventeen years ago)

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