Is the Kaba the center of earth?

Ferguson said:
The center (and alignment) of a 2d map is arbitrary, muslims used Mecca as the center, Europe used Europe or Jerusalem, etc.
I tried the method with the first map I found, and it seems Turkmenistan is the center of the world.
Or maybe Kansas.
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Well..........................funny you mention Kansas. We have had a cult of some description buying up land close to the geographic center of the USA, so therefore (In there minds) center of the world, for years

I dont know what brand of faith they are....Or what possible religion they branched off from. But the local farmers have loved selling off worthless land to them
 
Ferguson said:
The projection of a 3d world on to a 2d map is arbitrary and can not have the correct sizes and distances, the projection we use is mostly just so Europe looks big.
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The primary advantage of the Mercator projection is that it accurately represents directions. There is no way to project the surface of a sphere onto a flat surface without distorting something. For the Mercator projection, what gets distorted is the scale along the E-W axis, which gets bigger at higher latitudes. Other projections that do a good job of preserving scale distort directions.

Since Europe is at fairly high latitudes, it looks bigger on a Mercator projection, relative to lower latitude areas, than it actually is. Some self-hating left-wing CT types, who believe the Europe is the source of all that is evil in the world, think this is the primary motivation for using that particular projection.

Of course, the Mercator projection also makes Russia look big. Maybe its usage was a Communist conspiracy. Then again, it might be those dastardly Canadians who are responsible. No, wait, what really looks ridiculously big on a Mercator projection is Greenland. So, the primary suspects are those devious Greenland Eskimos and the evil Danes. Then again, maybe the Mercator projection is just one useful, if unavoidably inaccurate way of representing the spherical surface of the Earth on a flat piece of paper, and making Europe (and Russia and Canada and Greenland) look bigger merely an unintended side effect.
 
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everybody knowsa that Roswell, NM is the centerr of the world:
It is equidistant from minor cities (180 miles to Albuquerque, Lubbock, El Paso, Midland-Odessa)
Equidistant from Major Cities (550 Miles to OKC, DFW, Phoenix)
And the Aliens crashed there...
 
The aliens crashed in my back yard.


Think about it.

If you were the aliens, whose back yard would you crash in?

(I rest my case.)
 
dudalb said:
Nonsense. Everybody knows Pellucidar is the center of the earth....
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Perhaps...

Yet this is merely an 'argument from popularity'

The true centre of not only the Earth but the entire Universe is Granity (wikipedia.org/wiki/Granity) on the West Coast of the South Island

The Theory of Universal Granity posits that there exists one and only point where the concepts of time and space cease to have meaning

And lo! It's true! Check it out for yourself, you'll soon see that nothing EVER happens in Granity
 
This reminds me of that time I had a call-center job selling circus tickets.
The tickets were on big roll and you tore off the tickets you sold and put them in an envelope with the clients name/number on it.

I got guy on the phone who insisted he'd get a seat in "the middle".
I told him that the circus piste was circle (duh!) and that therefor all the seats were in "the middle". And that I could not roll off the whole ticked roll to tear of one ticket in "the middle".

He got angry and demanded I sell him tickets in the middle. I told him I'd give in this one time, tore off the next ticked and put it in the envelope.

I guess he was very pleased with his extra special place.
 
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