• @boojumliussnark
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    210 hours ago

    I don’t quite get this. The human head, like the globe, is not flat. Shouldn’t that be reflected in the projections? When projecting the earth in Mercator, we see the whole earth, not simply a “profile” of earth. I would expect a projection of a head to include the whole surface of the head, not a simple profile. How is this actually factual?

    • mozingo
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      169 hours ago

      This isn’t representing projections of a human head. This is representing projections of the globe if the globe had a giant human head drawn on it instead of the continents.

      • Flying SquidOP
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        129 minutes ago

        That is also a good explanation for how the Shroud of Turin could not possibly be an after-image of a three-dimensional person.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      19 hours ago

      It’s still a Mercator projection if you take a world map done in that way and cut it in vertically in half, isn’t it?