Interesting Maps

Map of The United States in Esperanto

???? What does that mean

The map shows the Yucatan one substantially larger than the Australian one.

Yeah, but the theory of relativity doesn't exactly start with "once upon a time".

Oklahomo

I laughed 🤣

Well, it's only a theory so it's a bit like a story. 😉

Once upon a time, in a universe filled with stars, planets, and mysteries, there was a young physicist named Albert. Albert was a curious man, always looking up at the night sky and wondering how the universe worked. He noticed that the way things moved and behaved didn’t quite match up with the old stories told by other wise scientists. So, he decided to write a new story.

In this story, Albert imagined the universe not as an empty stage where things simply happen, but as a soft, flexible fabric called spacetime. This fabric was special—it could bend and stretch, twist and turn, depending on what was sitting on it.

Now, in the universe, there were heavy things like stars and planets. When these heavy objects sat on the fabric of spacetime, they created dips and curves, much like how a ball sitting on a blanket would cause it to sag. And because of these curves, anything else moving nearby—like light, smaller stars, or even people—would follow the curves and paths made by the heavy objects.

Albert realized that this is why planets orbit around the Sun! The Sun, being very heavy, made a big dip in spacetime, and the planets were just rolling along the curved paths around it. It wasn't because of some invisible force pulling them, as people used to believe, but because spacetime itself was telling them where to go.

But Albert’s story didn’t stop there. He also discovered that time wasn’t the same everywhere. In places where spacetime was bent a lot, like near very heavy objects, time would slow down. So, if you lived near a huge star, time would move more slowly for you compared to someone far away. This idea was strange and magical, but Albert’s math and experiments showed that it was true.

This new understanding of the universe became known as the General Theory of Relativity. It explained how gravity worked, not as a force but as the result of the bending and warping of spacetime itself.

And so, with this new story, Albert helped everyone see the universe in a different way—a place where space and time dance together, shaping the destinies of stars, planets, and everything in between. And that’s how the mystery of gravity was solved, allowing the universe to continue spinning its tale, one curve at a time.

The End.

And for the sake of adding a map:

Great Lakes System Profile

https://redd.it/awzwk1

#MapPorn

Carrauntoohil seems to have lost 2m since I was in school 🤔

Map of the 42 Landlocked Countries

Only Iceland is lower than us.

2016 so a bit out of date. Teagasc estimate 11.6% in 2023 so we've overtaken the Netherlands which is down to 10.8% according to recent reports. Most of that 11.6% is lifeless Sitka desert though and only 2% of the country is native.

Sweden's 17.8 average is pretty amazing.

Easy to miss that! 😎

3,000 miles under the sea, yes 3,000 miles shout the DailyMail, exists the spaghetti monster.

Marine probes dispatched to a undersea mountain have uncovered a previously unknown 'pristine ecosystem,' along the Pacific's deep Peru-Chile Trench — has documented 20 brand-new undersea creatures, including a spectral and lanky 'squat lobster,' a new 'scorpionfish' and a rare blue octopus. 'Only 26% of the seafloor has been mapped to this high resolution'