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How Big is Africa?

calamity said:
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Still not a White RW Christian conspiracy "which intentionally minimized the "Dark Continent."
 
Rising Sun said:
Still not a White RW Christian conspiracy "which intentionally minimized the "Dark Continent."
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Follow me here, k? When you leave the size of the "Dark Continent" stable and puff up the size of everything around it by blowing their true size way out of proportion, you have, by definition, minimized it. Capeesh?
 
FinnFox said:
Better not to care about anything - much easier that way. Not caring is golden attitude, way to go.

For me that map was interesting as it shows how big Africa is and it should "trigger" some brain cells. But maybe Not giving a F*** is smarter way, who knows :)
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The point is, the OP announces that the African continent is big. So ... ? We can't help wonder why that is even taking up real estate on this forum. ALL the continents are big. Are we guilty of thinking Africa is small? No.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
The question on the table is why should I care about Africa?

The answer has not been forthcoming.
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No, that was not the question. You should care as much about Africa as you care about other continents. Why not?

The OP is about the geographical SIZE of Africa. Is it bigger than Asia? North or South or Central America? Eurasia? Hmmm. Interesting question? Maybe, but it has NOTHING to do with politics, does it?

Are we supposed to be thinking -- Wow! Africa is big! That means, Africa must be a powerful and important force in the world. Because of its size? Antartica is big. Do we have extra respect for Antartica because it's big?
 
Cardinal said:
Oh brother...
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You think Canada is NOT in North America? You honestly think America IS A COUNTRY???? :shock:

They don't even teach geography in public school anymore? Too busy teaching political correctness?
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Well now sure people these days are generally ignorant ****s who are very unpleasant to be around, because people generally suck now......people used to be better......but I still want an answer......Why should I care about Africa?
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It's part of the WORLD, and you live in the WORLD. Unless you are an extraterrestrial who happens to speak English.
 
calamity said:
Follow me here, k? When you leave the size of the "Dark Continent" stable and puff up the size of everything around it by blowing their true size way out of proportion, you have, by definition, minimized it. Capeesh?
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Mercator Projector as the link discussed. I'm certain any intelligent, mature and sane adult would capeesh that it's not a conspiracy to minimize the "Dark Continent" when the same thing happens to all areas near the equator as your own Wiki animated graphic displays.
 
Lord of Planar said:
That's probably why Obama had Qaddafi killed. He was about to unite many of the African countries.
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It was more about uniting African economies under a new pan-African gold+oil standard than a political union, but yes, this is why Col. Qaddafi was taken out. It's the same reason Saddam Hussein was taken out--or at least one of the reasons.

Incidentally, although it was Pres. Obama at the helm when the US fomented the "Arab Spring", he'd have been executed no matter who'd been in the Oval Office at the time.
 
Rising Sun said:
Mercator Projector as the link discussed. I'm certain any intelligent, mature and sane adult would capeesh that it's not a conspiracy to minimize the "Dark Continent" when the same thing happens to all areas near the equator as your own Wiki animated graphic displays.
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Coincidence that those places just happen to be full of mostly brown people? I think not.
 
Rising Sun said:
They aren't "fake maps", it's just the limitations of a Mercator projection map -- trying to fit a sphere onto a flat piece of paper. The opposite effect happens to both the Arctic and Antarctic. There is not conspiracy to minimize or maximize anything.

Mercator projection - Wikipedia
It became the standard map projection for navigation because of its unique property of representing any course of constant bearing as a straight segment. Such a course, known as a rhumb or, mathematically, a loxodrome, is preferred by navigators because the ship can sail in a constant compass direction to reach its destination, eliminating difficult and error-prone course corrections. Linear scale is constant on the Mercator in every direction around any point, thus preserving the angles and the shapes of small objects and fulfilling the conditions of a conformal map projection. As a side effect, the Mercator projection inflates the size of objects away from the equator. This inflation starts infinitesimally, but accelerates with latitude to become infinite at the poles. So, for example, landmasses such as Greenland and Antarctica appear far larger than they actually are relative to landmasses near the equator, such as Central Africa.
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Come on, though. What's more important? Maps that people can actually use to navigate, or maps useless for navigation at most latitudes but ensure every beady-eyed child knows a bunch of countries fit inside Africa?

If you answer "maps people can actually use to navigate", that's just you asserting your white map privilege.
 
calamity said:
Coincidence that those places just happen to be full of mostly brown people? I think not.
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ROFLMAO. Sorry, but there's no coincidence that human beings who historically lived in the equatorial zones have darker skin than those who lived closer to the Poles, especially in the northern european region.

I'm curious; did you even read why the Mercator Projector map was used by sailors?....or if you did, did you understand the reason?
 
COTO said:
Come on, though. What's more important? Maps that people can actually use to navigate, or maps useless for navigation at most latitudes but ensure every beady-eyed child knows a bunch of countries fit inside Africa?

If you answer "maps people can actually use to navigate", that's just you asserting your white map privilege.
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LOL. Silly me thinking that everyone is reasonable, intelligent and well read about navigation....how white of me! :)
 
Rising Sun said:
LOL. Silly me thinking that everyone is reasonable, intelligent and well read about navigation....how white of me! :)
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Also 100% true: "Africa" and "Asia" are shorter words than "America" and "Australia" because white people wanted bigger continent names than those continents "full of mostly brown people" [sic].

The sad thing being that I have no doubt somebody would eventually start a thread on this if they felt they could find people dumb enough to believe it.
 
COTO said:
Also 100% true: "Africa" and "Asia" are shorter words than "America" and "Australia" because white people wanted bigger continent names than those continents "full of mostly brown people" [sic].

The sad thing being that I have no doubt somebody would eventually start a thread on this if they felt they could find people dumb enough to believe it.
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Agreed.

It fascinates me how some people come up with these ideas, especially conspiracy theories.
 
Good4Nothin said:
You think Canada is NOT in North America? You honestly think America IS A COUNTRY???? :shock:

They don't even teach geography in public school anymore? Too busy teaching political correctness?
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Maybe you were absent when geography came up, for your edification: There are 23 countries in North America.

1.USA, 2.Canada, 3.Mexico, 4.Guatemala, 5.Belize, 6.Honduras, 7.El Salvador, 8.Nicaragua, 9.Costa Rica, 10.Panama, 11.Bahamas, 12.Cuba, 13.Jamaica, 14.Haiti, 15.Dominican Republic, 16.St. Kitts and Nevis, 17.Antigua and Barbuda, 18.Dominica, 19.St. Lucia, 20.Barbados, 21.St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 22.Grenada, 23.Trinidad and Tobago.

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COTO said:
It was more about uniting African economies under a new pan-African gold+oil standard than a political union, but yes, this is why Col. Qaddafi was taken out. It's the same reason Saddam Hussein was taken out--or at least one of the reasons.

Incidentally, although it was Pres. Obama at the helm when the US fomented the "Arab Spring", he'd have been executed no matter who'd been in the Oval Office at the time.
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Gaddafi was a brutal thug who was “taken out” to keep him from slaughtering his own people en masse like he had slaughtering others in years past. He was a rapist who was responsible both directly and indirectly for the murder of huge numbers of innocent people.

Saddam Hussein was also a brutal thug, and one who did literally everything in his power to make people think he was involved with 9/11
 
Tigerace117 said:
Gaddafi was a brutal thug who was “taken out” to keep him from slaughtering his own people en masse like he had slaughtering others in years past. He was a rapist who was responsible both directly and indirectly for the murder of huge numbers of innocent people.

Saddam Hussein was also a brutal thug, and one who did literally everything in his power to make people think he was involved with 9/11
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Both Col. Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein were murderers and brutal dictators, but this isn't why they were taken out. Moreover, in Qaddafi's case the US knew well that killing him would completely destabilize Libya and shortly cause men even more brutal to rise to power. Their objective was certainly not to make life easier for Africans.

If you want to discuss the subject further, we should start a thread on it. It's off-topic here.
 
calamity said:
Big enough to stick almost all the popular countries from the other continents into it.

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I've read about the fake maps we grew up with, maps which intentionally minimized the "Dark Continent." But, the pic above really makes that clear, IMO.
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If anything, maps "maximize" area away from the equator. Africa ranks second (in both area and population) to Asia among the 7 continents.

 
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ecofarm said:
South Florida ends up in Congo and owned by China? No deal.
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I'm almost certain this is a map of the last game of Risk that I played...
 
calamity said:
Big enough to stick almost all the popular countries from the other continents into it.

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I've read about the fake maps we grew up with, maps which intentionally minimized the "Dark Continent." But, the pic above really makes that clear, IMO.
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During my last working years, when I did a lot of teaching for junior personnel, I had a briefing slide to show that the US "lower 48" could fit into Africa three times. Maps we grew up with did not "intentionally" minimize Africa. They were simply standard Mercator projections -- the common world map of the time -- which exaggerated the poles.
 
calamity said:
Big enough to stick almost all the popular countries from the other continents into it.

EOpapMBWkAAmrdY



I've read about the fake maps we grew up with, maps which intentionally minimized the "Dark Continent." But, the pic above really makes that clear, IMO.
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Thanks for the geography lesson

It was nothing more
 
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