Talk:2999: Bad Map Projection: The United Stralia

He forgot the Idaho abbreviation. Danger Kitty (talk) hello172.68.54.64 19:49, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

And Mississippi has stolen Michigan's abbreviation! 172.70.206.240 23:18, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

5 likes and I will make this a reality Caliban (talk) 20:10, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Probably this is because I'm more familiar with the map of Australia than of the US, but Melbourne seems to have moved quite a bit to the east and is now presumably in Gippsland? Oddly that's the most jarring change for me... Zoid42 (talk) 20:26, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Yep. Melbourne Florida. 172.70.47.10 21:56, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I guess that explains the location -- though I'd not heard of the Melbourne in Florida previously. The other jarring thing is (on the east coast at least) the climates don't match up. Florida is closer to Queensland in terms of climate (and maybe culturally), Tasmania is colder and I guess probably closer to the north-eastern US states. Plus I can't really see Adelaide as being that much like New Orleans...

An eight-legged gator with fangs the size of your arm, six eyes, and the ability to spin webs is truly a horrifying thought. P?sych??otic?pot??at???o (talk) 21:07, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

At that point most of the NT would become to dangerous for people to live. SomeRandomNerd (talk) 23:21, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

If find it weird how tasmania is florida, as while they are in the same place, they are the least alike 2 places you could think of. SomeRandomNerd (talk) 22:35, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Agreed. If cartoons and television have taught me anything, one is home to a bunch of snarling, slobbering, ravenous beasts, moving across the landscape as whirlwinds of wanton destruction. And the other is Tasmania. 172.64.238.130 04:59, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Part of the joke is that the contiguous 48 States plus DC have nearly the same area as Australia, though the US has a larger total area. 141.101.109.166 01:00, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

As an Australian citizen, this map hurts my soul. This is amazingly painful and I kinda love it. OmniDoom (talk) 01:36, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

I apparently now live in Adelaide/Louisiana (or New Orleans/South Australia). FourW (talk) 06:32, 17 October 2024 (UTC)FourW

Environmentalists will be upset with Randal for finally finishing the Cross Florida Barge Canal. And just in time for the centennial!--The Mess (talk) 07:33, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

I was wondering if it was a sidelong comment upon the effects of Hurricane Milton... 172.70.160.188

No, no, no. It's the Gap Chasm.[1]

The distortion of Washington State, where I live, is painful, but funny. Can't wait for comic 3000! 172.71.146.58 16:00, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Being about to shift to the right at an election next weekend, it is very prescient (and scary) that SE Queensland, where I live, is in North Carolina. 172.68.64.212 18:53, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

That's great! As a Sydney resident this cartoon gave me an earworm. I'll be singing it all day; "South Carolina On My Mind". Ozhamada (talk) 22:18, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Request: Map Merge/Morph

Could someone please post a simple map outline of the contiguous US and of Australia, and then try to merge / morph the two maps together? 172.70.47.88 17:24, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

could you please elaborate on how you want to merge these two maps? 42.book.addict (talk) 18:22, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Anyone else see a *very* similar map on social media recently? I think it might've been one of those "bad maps" X accounts that posted one that's almost identical but with different labeling a couple days ago, clearly the inspiration for Randall. Probably worth mentioning that in the explanation somewhere. PotatoGod (talk) 22:03, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

I have been referencing this map for years, to try to explain how isolated Perth is. I say: imagine San Francisco is the only city on the west coast, and the edge of the state runs south from the Montana/Dakotas border. And the next nearest city is Houston. Although I guess I need to change that to SLO and New Orleans. 172.68.0.190 01:06, 18 October 2024 (UTC)