Africa really is the Dark Continent!

[Phil Wise]

Another interesting thing is that the way they've "flattened" the Earth
comes out like one of those old-fashioned world maps where the size of the
land near the poles is exaggerated out of proportion.  Looking at that photo
collage, which seems bigger to you, Greenland or Australia?

Oddly, and speaking of aesthetics, I've always thought that in this
projection the land masses were more pleasing to the eye than in the more
proportionate projections you see more now.

Phil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Otto" <o.sell at telda.net>
To: <pfm at anam.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: Africa really is the Dark Continent!


> RE: Africa really is the Dark Continent!Peter Fellows-MCCully
> Subject: RE: Africa really is the Dark Continent!
> Anybody else wonder how they managed to take the "photograph"
> while it was dark everywhere on the planet?
> pfm
>
> They've told us lies about the shape of the Earth - it's flat like a
pizza!
>
> I liked the image very much, without thinking of pollution or war.
> But the image has not been "taken from the Boeing built Space Station last
> November", the text on the website says it's "a composite of hundreds of
> pictures made by the orbiting DMSP satellites."
> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html
> (DMSP=Defense Meteorological Satellites Program,
> http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/dmsp.html)
>
> Otto
>
>
>