Africa really is the Dark Continent!

[Otto]

Yeah, and Europe looks bigger than India.

Our aesthetics are Eurocentric.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Wise
To: Otto
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: Africa really is the Dark Continent!


> 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
>