ok seems a daft question but you know you get a globe, you spin it, you can easily see where places are in the world and how they 'connect' in the 'big picture'.  and when you look at a poster of the world map on the wall, i get confused because well, i dont know how it 'connects' if you know what i mean, any thoughts?
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Print out the following site and put it together. There are ones for mars at NCAA site. \nBuckminster Fuller had several different ones. One had the continents as one big island, one had one unified ocean.\nNotice when a plane travels from say, LA to Japan, it first travels to Alaska. That is the shortest distance. This would be an arc on a flat map.
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Google earth takes much of system process. because when you load many parts of the world its process will be so heavy. so when you dont use this close it.
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They have an "About" page that explains what it's all about. However, I had to read it more than once, and STILL am not 100% able to explain it. It looks very "busy" and confusing. *chuckle* But I'd advise giving the page a try. The link is below.
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Man,I'm studying that now and I have the maps on my book.Pity I can't send it to you.....Try Yahoo images.
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I dont get it o_o?\nand yeah, how did you get those symbols? they're cool :P
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I love geography!  It's so neat to think of all the countries that I could have been born in, and this is where I ended up.  I'm so fortunate that I wasn't born in a really poor country.  You should try this game... it might help you get better at geography, and then you might like it!\n\nhttp://www.funbrain.com/where/index.html
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Mapping - this is the correct spelling.  So lets start with that.  Then go to the site below.  The USGS and its site are all about mapping the world.
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I'd say that your logic sounds good, but I don't know much about 4D.  All I know is that the theoretical "shadow" of a 4D object would be a 3D object (the shadow of a 2D think is 1D, and the shadow of a 3D thing is 2D, so the logic goes from there to 4D).\n\nOne thing is, if the video frames thing is true, you wouldn't be able to comprehend it all.  (I know this is random and not really related to what you are asking).  It is an interesting theory, though.
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was the snail on a globe or on a map?? that is the only thing i could think of.
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Well I found this really cool map a while back. It's not from a reliable Star Wars source (i.e. www.starwars.com or www.theforce.net) but it looks pretty good. Check it out.\n\nThe second one is almost exactly (if no exactly) the same. \n\nI don't know if this is what you wanted, but it's something.
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Well I'm trying this again, my computer froze up. I wrote earlier , good question. I enjoy the freedom to do what I am doing now. The ability to go and see places around the world, within reason, and guide lines. Everyplace I have been to has it's own beauty, and I have my favorites. As far as from day to day I wish more people had the same situation we have. My first draft was better, but lost it.
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It would probably be best to explain this first in terms of a 2D being (that is, one that lived on a piece of paper) would experience a 3D object (I'll use a sphere):\n\nImagine a piece of paper with a being living on (a "Paperperson", I'll call them) it with a sphere approaching the piece of paper.  At first, the Paperpeople would see nothing.  Then, at the first instant the ball crossed their piece of paper, they'd see a little dot.  Then, as the ball continued moving through the piece of paper, they'd see a circle expand from that point to a larger circle.  Finally, as the ball began to leave, they'd see the larger circle collapse back to a point and then disappear.\n\nSo, people percieving 2 spatial dimensions would experience a 3 spatial dimension object as a series of 2D objects spread out across time.\n\nBy analogy to three dimensions, suppose you had a hypersphere (a 4 dimensional sphere).  If it were to pass through our part of space, we'd experience it as a point, leading into a series of expanding spheres, and finally collapsing back into a point and disappearing again, but the process would occur over time.\n\nMake sense?  I hope a little!\n\nIf you're interested you might want to read the Wikipedia article on Tesseracts (Hypercubes, thatis, 4D cubes); specifically the section "Projection on to 2D" or "Projection onto 3D".  The URL is as follows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract .
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It seems flat to me.  However, when I peer intently  at lines of clouds over a real-long horizon I detect a curl this way and that, like it's following some sort of curvature of the surface in a distant kind of way.  It's really spooky.  But you include the question "Was it ever round?"  So if you want more on the subject, listen to Phil Hendrie on xm radio channel 152, and sometimes he has a guest General Johnson Jameson, who attempts such inquiries.  As an added bonus, a few conversations about a society of small people who live in a magical land.
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map makers esentiallt did what is known as graphing.  what they did is basically take a piece of graphing pad marking out latitudes and longatudes respectively. they then took measurements as to where they were with a device known as a sextant which they use to determine thire position on the planet LAT/LONG by using the stars as they traveled they marked on the grid paper what thier lat/long was then simply connected the dots this technique can be used to mark coastlines  or if inland plot your course (eg make a line on the map known to be dry land) this course can then be translated to be the border between utah and montana for example the lines for borders between states were mostly arbatrary some were set forth by the gov't where the lines were to be drawn others may have been a natural boundary such as a river or other waterway.\n\ni hope that is what you were looking for
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Things like tesseracts can open up to other worlds. I believe that this is very true.Example:think of our world as a square,or in dimensions,we live in a three dimesional world.But in a tesseract there are fourth and fifth dimensions. Kind of like portals. So these openings in the tesseract are like black holes almost. How would see the world through the pepsi cup I can't explain but I have a feeling it wouldn't be good.
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You will find it all here   Even his map. \n\nhttp://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/greavesandthomas/facsimile/globe_magellan.htm
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Well, this is an interesting lesson in geometry, eh? Since the earth is a sphere (more or less) that rotates on an axis - the N & S points were chosen as the intersecting points for longitudinal lines of measurement - which all go back to the length of a day and segments thereof - as well as 360 degrees which were derived roughly from the concept of a 360 day year (it is actually 365+ but back in time the 360 measurement worked wonders for calculationsand thus it fit into geometry of all kinds .. including the longitudinal slices of the earth in 1 degree increments). If you chose to - you could select another two points each an oposite 90 degrees from the N and S poles (which made sense becauseof the magnetic N and the rotational axis). The other two points would be arbitrary. Somebody would have to mark those spots. A secondary longitudinal series could then overlay the primary longitudinal lines and create a kind of variable grid based on an arbitrary selection of the two secondary points. Actually ONE of those lines would lie on top of one of the primary (current) longitudianal lines and it would be a double use line or a kind of disection of hemispheres.  \nBUT\nIt would not be measuring anything very well because the secondary points are arbitrary and not related to anything else.  \nSO\nThe reason the latitude disectors came into play with their resulting grids over the face of earth'ssphere, was becuase they help measure something.  Since stars, the sun and the moon are  always - based on measured timepieces - in the same place and the same time repeatedly, you could measure the distance above the horizon to a star and figure out how far you were N or S of the equator - a halfway point from N to S.  It became easy this way to use the North Star to detect your position N or S by the angle of THAT star above the horizon becuase it was always amost right on top of the N Pole.  So the slices of LATITUDE N and S were critical to navigation. Once the clock was perfected to hold accurate time within a few seconds a month, the accuracy of E and W postion on earth relative to the stars also became possible.  If people did not need to know were they were on earth (especially ships at sea) there would have been no need for a good grid system.