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- Earth is not flat. So, representing it on a flat surface can be challenging and always requires compromises.
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who needs maps when you have a dad claiming to have a great sense of direction
Ailsa Carlaw 😂
I wish I had a dad...
hazardous017 ill be your dad
hazardous017 now you have a family congratulations
Two words: road construction.
Good luck.
I actually saw this sentence once: "The flat earth society has members around the globe"
Notice the irony?
"notice the irony?" .... no, please help us. its too complicated dude. WHERE IS IT? also: I dont believe you. seems made up. also it would only be ironic if a flat earther had said it, otherswise it would simply be correct.
sgtStones It would still be ironic. Just because it's correct doesn't change that.
It was probably designed that way... Nobody believes the earth is flat. The whole idea is satire. Lol.
It's not ironic though. It's all a conspiracy from "Big Science"(TM)(c)(R). They've infiltrated the dictionaries and redefined what "around" means. Joke's on you!......?
/sarcasm
I don't get it. Do you mean they live on the edge, where they might stumble and fall off?
I would be very interested in the Flat Earthers response if SpaceX offered to take them into orbit.
you sir get a like
Knowing how they reason, they'd probably say it was a simulation. Either the windows were high def monitors or they were drugged and hallucinating.
Kenny Zhang yep
+Kenny Zhang cool
If the couple that took up the offer ceded that the earth was, in fact, round instead of trying to explain it off; the others would just say that SpaceX paid them off and ostracize them from the rest of the group.
I CHALLENGE SCISHOW TO MAKE A CONVINCING ARGUMENT VIDEO THAT THE EARTH IS FLAT FOR APRIL FOOLS DAY.
bruinflight SHUT UP AND TAKE MY LIKE
😂
bruinflight I'm ded!😂😂😂
Oh boy, and then all the conspiracy crowd will miss quote it everywhere. Very risky. (I'm very fun at parties :P)
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The waterman butterfly is clearly the superior one.
rafael m Really? You know the Waterman? Have you seen the 1909 Cahill Map it's based- ...You have a framed reproduction at home?! Whoa. ...Listen, forget these questions. Are you doing anything tonight?
rafael m Lapidot
M1lkweed 761
Knew I'd find this here
Nice reference!
otp
The ”AuthaGraph” projection is a map projection that was created in 1999 by Japanese architect ”Hajime Narukawa” and is consirered ”the most realistic map projection” sure, it’s impossible to make it 100% accurate, but the diffrent types of projections you can make is almost endless. It is very realistic in many aspects and was made by dividing the Earth’s surface into 96 triangles, it can even be folded into a 3 dimensional globe! It generally preserves the area and shape of continents, as well as avoiding cutting them in half
Fun fact: The Mercator projection doesn't give the shortest distance from A to B, but gives the compass heading you should maintain to get from A to B. Taking the shortest route is typically more complicated as the compass heading changes on the journey.
Self Promo: For anyone interested, I did a video recently on how the flat earth map can actually be used to disprove the flat earth theory.
Now this is a fact
My wife and I were talking about how the person in the front passenger seat is effectively the Co-Pilot, and bears such responsibilities. We were talking about MapQuest at one point. :x
What do maps and fish have in common?
They both have scales
and both taste good too
Let me guess, let me guess! They are both full of mercury!
Did I get it?
Mercator to mercury. I think I know what you're saying!
thats a knee slapper man‼️
Earth is flat. Ask a photon. You'll see.
(Not trolling, its a physics joke.)
SlimThrull I did one similar to this, but I used 0.9999999999c.
I lol'd harder than I should've
That reminds me of a video VSause has made except he used a myon instead of a photon.
I don't get it. :( Can someone explain?
@Dat Kiteh: General relativity where the faster an object moves relatively to other objects, it becomes squished in the direction, applying to both frames (i.e. if you move, the world sees you squished in that direction but if on the other hand, you will see that the world has been flattened instead). Photones travel at the speed of light so the earth has got the height of 0 to them.
This must be infuriating for Flat earthers.
+Drink Me Triangles are still flat mate :d
woosh
Gordon Freeman whoosh whoosh, Freeman, it's called a joke
Who cares. They aren't really worth talking to because most, if not all, flat refuse to accept anything that could possible show them to be wrong. There's no debating with that.
+darkfire090
make it a 5-simplex then
As a geographer, people's lack of understanding of maps and the spread of misinformation about things like the Mercator map and strange conspiracy theories regarding it, I'm glad this video was made. Thank you.
If I were ever to meet a flat earther, I'd ask them to take me to the edge. If we ever got there, I'd push them off the edge. Mainly because they'd have spent the entire trip telling my how NASA faked the moon landing.
You don't know yet? Look at the Chinese spacewalk, it's hilarious
I looked at it, but I don't see the problem. Looks like a spacewalk in space. Woohoo.
You can't get to the edge of the flat earth; the giant ice wall is in the way. The ice wall is to keep people away from the wall of the giant dome over the flat earth.
(/not a Flat Earther, I've just heard their excuse before.)
I thought their excuse was that the government's around the world banded together to keep it a secret.
I have also heard the excuse that you can't reach the edge because there is military all along it that stops people from getting to the edge.
I am always fascinated by maps and how they influence how we see the world. Great topic scishow!!
I have never actually seen a so called 'flat earther' in all my life, other than people parodying them. At this point I'm 60% convinced it is all a conspiracy in order to make me believe that humans are dumber than they are. And I'm going to keep believing that, because the alternative is too depressing.
96ace96 my neighbor is a flat earther
More than half of my class last year were flat earthers....they brought religion into the conversation, it got pretty heated considering that it was supposed to be a lighthearted debate
I've never met a flat earther, but I have met a moon landing denier. At least, he was when I went to middle school with him ten years ago.
@@20cmdeservesbetter You should think about switching schools.
The Earth is "flat" if you define the word "flat" as spherical
I'm a fan of the Dymaxian projection. I like seeing how the land mass sizes compare to each other.
Yes, and the countries
This is actually one of my favorite videos.
I create software that uses many GIS concepts with LiDAR. I had to teach myself about projections while on the job (software engineer). It's a very difficult field, and I have a huge deal of respect for the mathematicians, cartographers, and GIS individuals who make it all work. I've recently discovered the flat earther fad and took a look. I never comment on the videos because it most likely won't matter - I think it's funny that this video hinted at how ridiculous they are though. This is what I wanted to comment on their videos saying: If the earth was flat, how would the math I had to implement to convert coordinate system A to coordinate system B work to begin with (it's accurate down to a millimeter)? The math is indisputable. I appreciate SciShow covering this topic!
Oswald Winkel sounds like a euphemism for flashing a moon. "....so I gave them the old 'Oswald Winkel', to show my distaste at their authority"
The Flat Earth society... has members all around the globe.
^_^
(not my joke btw)
Master Therion that is edited with inspect element
That picture of Hank being stretched should be t-shirt art for their next merchandising campaign.
I had a cartographer once tell me "You couldn't possibly draw the continents accurately on a flat surface!" but I think he was just projecting.
My favorite map projection is the "Goode homolosine projection". It's called the "orange-peel map" because it has distinguished parts of it that resemble a range peel.
I like it because of its compromise of global area. It doesn't look too weird, and it's very useful.
It's crazy there's still people who think the earth is flat even nowadays.
David M. Johnston it's actually a more modern trend. Even Columbus thought the earth was round that's why he sailed west in the first place.
...... People keep going on about it.....
It's satire?
Yeah, for thousands of years, there have been experts in map making and geometry who have known the earth is curved, and yet there has always been laymen who have seen it as it directly appears to their senses.
This was so incredibly satisfying... I wonder if you could use a dymaxion map - if correctly arranged and maybe with a higher triangle resolution for navigation... so worth a try...
Question to all of the flat-earthers: are you sure the north pole is really in the centre and not the south pole?
Center of what? What the hell are you talking about
He's talking about the stupid circle disc. The one that claims Antarctica is a giant barrier-wall and the sun is 3000 miles away.
Ganaram Inukshuk On one video they said "NASA protects the ice wall". Game of Thrones immediately came to mind. Can't remember anything else of that video as I was laughing.
the north pole is just more sensible to put in the center, there is much more travel near and through it thanks to it being close to greenland, canada, russia and some northern european countries nobody cares about. whereas the south pole doesnt really have that much near it, therefore it's more believable that it could be a great conspiracy without it being immediately obvious to lots of people.
plus the south pole has treaties about no non-scientific missions there and stuff. noone owns it and whatever (almost as though they're trying to keep people away so their secret is safe) whereas the north pole is much more politically bland. additionally if i understand correctly it is possible (and perhaps has been done) to drive a ship to the north pole, just nuclear powered ship breaking the ice and driving through it. of course with much difficulty. whereas since there is land under the south pole (or so we're told) they dont do stuff like that
im not a flat-earther, but really there are loads of reasons to choose the south pole as the wall, makes lots more sense
If the South Pole was in the center we would all fall off the Earth!
4:03 "It would be really nice if everybody agreed with that sentence." Haha, a nice underhanded remark
The flat earth society has members all around the globe.
all you need is a basic understanding of the physical world to know no celestial body could ever be flat.
I really liked this video, and I really appreciate how when talking about Mercator Projection you didn't go into a tirade about European Imperialism. Not that I have any experience in perhaps an AP Human Geography Class.
+Kyle Nichols
So you do have experience in being a European imperialist instead ?
Thank you so much for discussing this without mentioning the Gall-Peters Projection.
I remember when I was eight MapQuest being used by my parents
Why yes, Hank, I am old enough to have used Mapquest. Thanks for making me feel like a crusty old hag today 😢
Thanks for giving zero credence to that god-awful Gall-Peters the Sorkin-diehard hipsters are always raving about.
OMG this one made me literally LOL because i totally understand every obscure age and GIS "joke" / reference. Mahalo (thank you!)
Better idea, I make the world.....
CUBE!
hydron powers velociraptor > Any shape
hydron powers imma one-up you , TESSARACT!
minecraff
A Hypercube would explain it better.
I'm still behind the theory, that our world is a rapidly spinning gaint banana. It spins so fast, that we see a sphere instead of that banana. I find this theory to be really a-peel-ing
I'd love if SCI Show did a mini series debunking science conspiracy theories ie: flat earth, Mandela effect, etc.
This is basically just XKCD 977, though ;)
Edward Cree Where is the waterman butterfly projection through?
"Earths not flat!"
Turns out we're in a simulated 2D Universe that is falsely projected as 3D, so when we die we come out of the program and go "oh, it is flat"
Is there an actual significant amount of flat earthers or are they just mostly trolls?
SonoftheWay35 Trust me, you don't want to know.
They are real and there are too many of them.
are they from developed countries? where they should be educated about such things? Is it religious? I don't know of any mainstream religions that have a hard doctrine about the shape of the earth......
It usually has some christian religious ties to the conspiracy.
I don't ever remember the bible ever mentioning the shape of the earth......then again, I haven't read the whole thing.
Yeah me neither, but it has more to do with the government wanting to hide gods existence or something like that.
I remember MapQuest and also using the giant paper state maps. My parents gave them to me to follow along with where we were going on long drives because I could never sleep in cars. I know have a very good sense of direction while my sister, who always slept in the car, gets lost inside of buildings.
*now
You don't spell triple "tripel" in german. This word does not exist in that way. There is only the word "dreifach". It might be a latin derived word though.
Hoehlenmaensch haha xD
A typical German...
Das Tripel. Exists 100%. Sry Brudi ^^
Still doesn't just translate to triple.
Hoehlenmaensch It is latin derived, you are right. and it translates to the noun "the triple". The adjective "triple" is synonymous to "threefold" wich obviously has common roots with "dreifach" in german and means the same.
+Veganes Spanferkel Babe
Hey, don't forget you are talking to a cave man.
Do a Tesla mini-series covering all his inventions and discoveries.
this post will be posted on all future videos until we get the mini-series or response.
redracerb18 oh so you are that guy
redracerb18 I think if you make substantial patreon contribution you will get better results.
At 1:49 Captions and video don't match... What do I believe???
Flat earth it is 😂
Adriano Zambrana Marchetti what do you mean they don't match? It's perfect
HaiImDan Sorry, got the timestamp a bit wrong, fixed it
+Adriano Zambrana Marchetti go to the doctor soon
Love this video, wish you had made it when I was in college! I studied Geography/GIS (Geographic Information Systems), and I now work in GIS and make maps for a living. I
False: the earth is a pentagon
:3
The Earth is a hyper-tetrahedron.
A pentagon is still flat tho
Thank you for not doing the thing that people so often do where they crap all over the Mercator projection as a useless projection and as a tool of imperialism blah blah blah. It's actually a really great map projection that I didn't fully appreciate until recently.
Flat earthers are as smart as Trump
Hank on maps is one of my favourite things
those of you who haven't watched his vlogbrothers video on maps - fix that!
best video you have hosted glasses dude
"Huge area of not map" - Hank 2017
This is 100% scientific.
I am not into geography too much, but this was one of the best episodes in my opinion :)
I've seen some really interesting projections that, rather than going for accuracy, distort different countries based on things like population or wealth. So, for example, more populated countries are made larger and less populated ones made smaller.
THIS EPISODE WAS SO GOOD, NOT THE NEUTERED STUFF THAT SCISHOW HAD BECOME
I thought no one could possibly think the Earth was flat in the 21st century until I met someone who had 'proof' of it and wow
just wow
The Mercator projection does not preserve large shapes (Greenland is an obvious example), it preserves small shapes, rhumb lines, and linear scale around any point.
Hi there, SciShow! I would love for people to learn about the terrifying and sudden nature of cerebral aneurysms! I had one rupture at 19 and I think it would make for an interesting video topic!
Could you make a map that's a very long rectangle and on it is a spiral of Earth.
You could fold the map into a globe but it can be read as just a strip of paper?
At the beginning of the video I jokingly asked (out loud for my friends to hear), "JoHn GrEeN??" Obviously I knew it wasn't, so I went on watching the video. Well at the end, there were credits listed... the first being the name of the host, Hank Green. Immediately, I went to Google.
I am pleased to find and report for those just as clueless, they are indeed brothers!
GPS, best map ever until you are driving on train tracks into a pond.
I love that last sentence.
Caught a mistake:
At 1:50 the subtitles say "Nearly 14 times" But Hank says 8 times
ps, the Subtitles are correct
That's one of the reasons for subtitles, to correct mistakes without having to remake and re-upload the video.
Lol
"How old are you, are you old enough for that"
The mercator projection only preserves *small* shapes. This is also true of all conformal maps; the mercator projection is actually famous because it makes rhumb lines (lines of constant bearing, what you call lines of true direction) straight. TBH, having rhumb lines straight doesn't help at all for modern non-compass navigation for which it's just as good as any other conformal projection. The real reason Mercator's used in those cases is that the US is weirdly attached to it; most of the rest of the world uses various compromise projections.
I really like the last line. "if everybody agreed to that" :D
this is so great, last month I watched a vox video about this and now scishow is talking about the same thing
Useless fact of the day: The Dymaxion Projection has recently been used to create a 1:1 recreation of the entire world in minecraft.
"How old are you? Old enough for that?"
excuse me
hold on a second, flat earthers are real? me timbers have been shivered...
1:51 "8x"? I thought it was nearly 14x Greenland's size
Reminds me of xkcd. Randall loves his projections.
Glad he didn't mention the 'flat earth map' with Antarctica around the boarder of the circular map. It's probably the dymaxion with the empty spaces filled with water. xD
How To Make An Accurate Map: Mix Mercator map + Lambert's Cylindrical Projection!
Peirce Quincuncial is hands down my favorite map projection.
I used to believe the Earth was flat. Everyone told me to take a trip to space because of how ignorant I sounded. Thanks to my friends, I discovered the Earth is a pyramid.
3D print the geography and oceans of the world to impresive detail in pieces like a puzzle
Great Video
Learned about this in my GIS class, very interesting!
lovin' the sass in this one, haha
The earth is a donut on top of a turtle; pray it's not hungry
And your high school teachers probably told you that the map was made this way to make Europe look bigger than Africa.
What about a map that makes the world look like a disk? It's what the flat earthers use. If you disregard it's relation to them, I'm sure it has some good map qualities
it has the same problems that last one did where all the continents are farther away from eachother than they really are.
videos like these are the reason im subscribed do more stuff like this alot of your other recent videos seem like your running out of decent ideas
We only use physical maps now for small areas of land where the curve of the earth does not matter to us in a significant way. Everyone uses digital representations of the earth on their phones for maps which actually should be the most accurate to a globe because the phone usually scrolls across a 3D representation in the coding like when using google earth I think.
Preach on Hank, preach on!
the first four words in the description alone will be enough to trigger a lot of backwards minded flat earth believers
Of course you can't make the earth flat. It already is.
SciShow just outplayed flat earthers
Sci show is full of sh!t..
Of course the title of this video is directed at the flat earthers.
i love my framed BFI Dymaxion map-poster!
1:26 creepiest two seconds of sci show
When a video like this can be made and West Wing is not referenced then I know I've gotten old.
jkwatcher47 yes! I was thinking about CJ this whole video.
The earth is flat on a map
The earth is a hollow cube and the entire universe revolves around it
you shd hv included the West Wing excerpt that I'd guess started many on the road to "me-and-my-browser can become an authority on anything". Wasnt that the Peter's Projection?
I hope that last little bit was foreshadowing of an upcoming episode on flat-earthers.
love this
I AM OLD EN OUGH FOR MAPQUEST!
Oh my god. So funny story. I was showering. And I was thinking "What ever happened to mapquest?" like earlier today, then I see this video. Lmao.
I remember MapQuest.
(I started driving when I was in the 2nd grade.)