#mercator

[transhuman-priestess]

Broke

Woke

Bespoke

[usaac-official]

A P4M-1Q of VQ-2 in flight, September 1956

[destinationsjourney]

Martin P4M-1 Mercator of VP-21

The Martin P4M Mercator was a maritime reconnaissance aircraft built by the Glenn L. Martin Company. The Mercator was an unsuccessful contender for a United States Navy requirement for a long-range maritime patrol bomber, with the Lockheed P2V Neptune chosen instead. It saw a limited life as a long-range electronic reconnaissance aircraft. Its most unusual feature was that it was powered by a combination of piston engines and turbojets, the latter being in the rear of the engine nacelles

[porterdavis]

2K views · 1.9K reactions | @staywoke333 The West Wing spitting some truth … #conspiracytheory #itsallalie #staywoke👁 #worldmap | Pittsbur

@staywoke333 The West Wing spitting some truth … #conspiracytheory #itsallalie #staywoke👁 #worldmap.

The Mercator Projection maps have fooled Donnie good.

He thinks Greenland is bigger than Africa. Here's the truth:

[nocternalrandomness]

Martin P4M maritime reconnaissance aircraft from USN VP-21 over the Patuxent River circa 1950

[ceevee5]

I love maps like this. Africa is big, but the Mercator projection stretches things nearer the poles, innit.

[highlandvalley]

This simple gif by Jakub Nowosad shows the effect of the Mercator projection on the real size of continents and countries on a planisphere https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1641443281925177344

Mercator projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection#Distortion_of_sizes

[faribahi]

Mercator, Ostende, Belgium, 2021.