For railway, there is already some neat project for visualising the reach in a certain travel time from any city with a station. https://www.chronotrains.com/de/explore

Depends, when actually speaking Swedish only with Scanian accent, they are ok to understand, but when switching to Scanian – impossible, but in a different way than the Danes.

Seconded, if Danes would take the hot potato out of their mouth and start speaking proper Swedish. :p

I assume part of the confusuion is that the earth is not flat. If one would create a Voronoi diagram on the surface of a globe, the resulting borders would still be straight lines, but, when projected, it depends on the projection, whether they remain straight.

The creator probably started with a Mercator projected map of Europe and then calculated the distance between any point on the map and all capitals. The distance on two points on the spere, however, cannot be obtained by counting the distance in h/v pixels on the map and applying Pythagoras, as Mercator projection exaggerates horizontal, east-west, distances. So one needs to map the pixel coordinates back onto the sphere and calculate the distances there.

It’s definitely a nice map though.

I haven’t found the announcement itself, but replies by Tumblr mentioning it.

Tumblr WIP

Vaduz is the capital of Liechtenstein.

The conclusion of a master’s thesis at Lund University / LTH (Sweden) onto that topic provides some information on why green is chosen over red:

When it comes to the performance of green light in comparison to red light, we have seen that under white smoke conditions, on average, green light has performed better than red. While under black smoke conditions, red light was the better of the two, in line with the previous research. Nonetheless, the reason why green is the most commonly used color still remains independent of its performance against red light. As previous literature has proven, people perceive green as safe and tend to choose it over red in these situations.

https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/9084340/file/9089830.pdf

As the highs lows are part of the earth’s atmosphere and thus trapped in a non-inertial frame of reference, they indeed experience the fictitious forces, such as the Coriolis and the centrifugal force.

I hope it works out.

He didn’t even need to take a time machine, he’s just coming from a very backward region.

Usually, you notice it, as Mastodon automatically adds an @username@instance for everybody the commment replies to, Lemmy doesn’t.

The process of actually projecting the contours on the globe onto a flat (cylindrical) map is by either putting a strong light source inside the globe and place the paper cylinder around it. This projects the contours onto the cylinder. The contours then need to be traced onto the cylinder using a pen. The other option, e.g. if the globe isn’t translucent, is to paint a longitude/latitude grid onto it and start with an empty rectangular map with the same grid structure. Then, for every trapezoid on the globe, its content needs to be transferred to a the coresponding rectangle on the map.

You’re right. The pic on Wikipedia just looked too similar for me.

Thanks. I was at the army. – For me they all look somehow the same. :p
I was searching for Mirage at first. So my first guess, France, was at least correct.

The first panel shows US made weapons such as the M1 Abrams tank, the Patriot surface-to-air missile system (here mounted onto a German made MAN gl truck), M142 HIMARS system (mounted onto a US made M1140 truck), the F-16, the F-35 F-15 or a Virginia class submarine, systems that “the US” thinks the European nations will buy when they invest into their military.

The second panel shows European made weapon systems, such as the Leopard 2 tank, the IRIS-T SLM system (again on MAN), the SAMP/T Aster system (mounted onto a Renault 8×4 truck), Saab Jas 39 Gripen Rafale, Eurofighter Typhoon or the future French SNLE 3G submarine, systems, that the Europeans probably will buy instead.

Private Tinnitus, WW2

As for me the lower bar in the flag is more black than blue, I did some reverse image search and found a better version here: Reverse searching https://pantip.com/topic/36321000

It is an Iraqi uniform, so neither Dutch nor Luxembourgish.

Btw. Saddam hides in the background.

I’m pretty sure, we would use a costly alternative anyways.

To satisfy the anything but metric postulate: 381 km originally are 15 million inches.

However, using some tricks, the size isn’t limited to that.

https://alexwlchan.net/2024/big-pdf/

Remark: The side length of the square correspods to 381 km, subsequently, its area is 145161 km^2 .
381 km^2 are slightly smaller than the city of Cologne.

In English, you’re also on cloud number nine, while we’re auf Wolke sieben in German.