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Google Maps now zooms out to a globe instead of a flat Earth
Google is finished thinking two-dimensionally with Maps and now shows the Earth as a globe rather than a flat "Mercator" projection as before. You won't notice the change when you first open the app, but if you zoom out far enough, you'll eventually get a moon's-eye view of our world. That means you'll see the world in a more realistic way: "With 3D Globe Mode on Google Maps desktop, Greenland's projection is no longer the size of Africa," Google Maps said on Twitter.
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Hey, wait a minute!! I want a divorce!! ... you're not Clint Eastwood!!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @03:09PM (12 children)
What about the flat earthers? Google, you insensitive clod!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 04 2018, @03:48PM (1 child)
How is my GPS going to work on a round map? Do I need an upgrade?
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @04:21PM
You need more than an upgrade ... but your GPS should be fine.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Saturday August 04 2018, @04:47PM (3 children)
But the flat earthers already know the truth...
It is a conspiracy to hide the real facts from the public.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by theluggage on Saturday August 04 2018, @06:42PM (1 child)
Hang on a mo - if the Earth is flat, where do the hollow Earth lizard people live? Sounds to me that this is just a cover for Google doctoring their maps to better hide the polar hole.
Are we talking deep pan or just two sided like an LP?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @08:03PM
They obviously live on the other tortoise's back. Dah!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @05:25PM
It's a Global Conspiracy. And Google is part of it.
(Score: 0, Troll) by pvanhoof on Saturday August 04 2018, @05:12PM (1 child)
The moment flat earthers convince the right people, at Google HQ, that being one is a (form of being) gender fluent or any other social justice (bullshit) thing, Google will revert maps back to a flat Mercator projection.
(Score: 2) by Kell on Monday August 06 2018, @07:11AM
I don't think it's Google that needs to worry about fluency, tbh.
Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday August 04 2018, @05:14PM (2 children)
I don't understand how they could go with this globe idea when that in no way fits the back of a turtle.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @05:40PM
Well, if your 'turtle' is a Virginia country turtle, then it's shell top is already relatively spherical. I.e., one like this: http://www.virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com/reptiles/turtles/bog-turtle/bog_turtle1.php [virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com] or this one http://www.virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com/reptiles/turtles/eastern-box-turtle/eastern_box_turtle.php [virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday August 04 2018, @06:21PM
It doesn't need to, it only needs to fit on the backs of the giant elephants standing on the turtle's shell. It's still a bloody stupid way to shape a world though. Why go through all the bother of figuring out a way to keep the people on the bottom from falling off when you can just make a sensible shape like a disk?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @07:28PM
How do I short tin foil hat material?