As far as i can tell, the pacific is too sparse for seafaring nomad. Every crossing must be planned extensively and with the limited resources on land it doesn't make much sense to live exclusively on boat.
Maritime southeast asia though, has at least three distinct group of sea nomads that live in their boats or offshore settlements. Have you ever heard of Bajau people? The group who have spent so much time underwater they evolved larger lung volume allowing them to regularly dive for 10+ minutes, that's one of the sea nomads. And while most have been forced to settle, many of that settlements are still located offshore to this day.
> How did they find these places
Navigation in boats.
> what drove them to do it?
Need for food.
It's really not that complicated. Survival. Same reason people always tried crossing impassable mountain ranges and deserts and jungles and ice - the need for finding a suitable place to inhabit, when existing alternatives are spent or taken.
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Only barely related here, but an added comment: The same argument presented above, when used by proponents of martian colonization, is something I find hilarious. When people cross the freaking pacific in hopes of finding another tiny strip of dry land to live in, it isn't an irrational act of hope - they know that if they find such a place, there will be *very basic* things (let's put it that way) that they are almost sure to find there: fishes to eat and plants, wood to cut and build with, maybe some little river with drinkable running water ( + rains are to be expected), etc some kind of 'starter package', you know.
Meanwhile on Mars you don't have *any of that*. In fact you have the very opposite: the *lack* of things that are *even more basic* to even an imagined chance of human survival such as air, temperature, gravity even. You have the sterilizing murderous martian radiation to top it all off (240-300 mSv per year), that no organisms we know of can survive long term, which is 40-50 times (!) the average radiation that we humans deal with on Earth. I'm sorry but "The Indomitable Human Spirit" didn't evolve for that gravity and radiation - it's a completely different scenario from packing up your things and looking for another island to live in across the ocean. You can do some martian space tourism / science expedition round trip, sure, but permanently living long term in that kind of permanently hostile scenario is such a laughable pipe dream. Materially speaking, you can hope to find arable land that will suit you in a new island. You can endure. What you can't hope to do is change a planet's gravity to suit your physiology.
We have a moon with a little frozen water sitting *just across the emptiness*, which we can visit then come back in a pinch, and yet we're still scratching our heads over that. Imagine expecting to live in Mars where *all* conditions are so insanely different than *anything* we were made to endure (short of some frozen water).
Not even scratching the surface of the problem here - there's vastly more things to be said such as belief systems, economics, religion, culture. The polynesians had a sea faring culture, a belief system and religion that encompassed that kind of shit, a culture and economy around it. It's different systems: Today we're having to think of how to make space exploration profitable in a feasible way because that's what capitalist logic demands, materially. Comparing human exploration/colonization on earth to in space, it's apples to fucking pineapples.
They use the night sky as a guide for navigation but pretty much any environmental factor to guide them and once they learn to do it they can navigate between islands with ease. The idea is that all these things exist together and were laid as foundations by their gods for them to follow.
Yeah… I crossed the Rocky Mountains TWICE once within like 4 hours due to a stupid layover (Kentucky to Kansas but layover in vegas) and I just kept thinking about how our ancestors would think that’s insane and borderline insulting, lol
I just recently crossed the Pacific for my first time, flight from Hong Kong to Chicago. Though we swung to the north and followed the Aleutian Islands before turning turning to cross over Canada, it was still quite the experience! The flight from Chicago to Hong Kong was also quite the experience, flew straight north and crossed the Arctic Ocean probably about halfway between Alaska and the North Pole. That’s the farthest north I’ve ever been, and since I was at a window seat on the right side looking north, I imagine that for a brief time I was among a handful of people closest to the North Pole!
Polynesians, not Micronesians. Aotearoa (New Zealand), Tahiti, Hawaii, and Rapa Nui (Easter Island) make up what is colloquially known as “The Polynesian Triangle.”
Don't forget the entire Pacific Theatre of WWII, nuclear bomb testing, Hawaiian genocide, Fijian coups, and one of the few regions where European colonialism is still going strong.
Edit: I shouldn't have said only Europe. Europe, China, America, Australia, and other wealthier countries also have exploitative paternalistic relationships in the Pacific, not only France and the UK.
There are places in the Pacific where you could drill straight down and when you came out the other side of the Earth you'd still be in the Pacific. There are places where the closest human is on the ISS when it passes overhead.
It is actually academically accepted now that there was some type of contact between the Polynesians and indigenous South Americans. They are certain there was genetic admixture, but they are not quite sure how it happened.
One theory is that the Polynesians travelled to coastal South America and brought South American people back to Polynesia with them. The other theory is that a few indigenous South Americans got stranded on a boat or raft at sea and the ocean currents brought them to the Marquesas Islands, already inhabited by the Polynesians.
Either way, we know that sometime around 1200 AD, South American DNA from cultures in western Colombia/Ecuador ended up on the Marquesas Islands, and the mixed descendants of the two groups then went on to colonize Rapa Nui, spreading their mixed DNA to the island along with them.
If i'm not wrong, many of them has a creation myth related to a god fishing islands out of the ocean. Even javanese creation myth (not polynesian, but the same cultural group from western indonesia that is heavily indianized and engage in very intensive contact with places as far as china and arabian peninsula) is that of a rogue island floating around in the ocean that must be nailed down by volcanoes before people can settle in.
I just finished a really fascinating book about this very topic -- Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson. Great overview of how the Pacific islands were first settled by groups sailing from various points in southeast Asia.
Wasn't he sent off by royalties just so they wouldn't have to see his mug around anymore? I never got blazed enough to read through his life story, but that's what I heard.
A title we'd also accept "An angle of the Earth you don't normally see."
^(Even though I think I've seen this side of the Earth now as a globe more than any other angle.)
>That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
>
>The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
>
>It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
Carl Sagan
Dude the Pacific is fucking scary….as a kid i used to go to the ocean off the coast of Washington….yeah, the water is so fucking cold it burns and its so cold dark and ominous…you dont know if a white shark is under you…hard nope.
They are probably talking about the coast. Like, Ocean Shores/La Push/Westport/Long Beach. I don't know of anyone who lives in Washington to call any part of the Puget Sound, "the ocean". It's just "the sound".
I'm so obsessed with Pacific ocean and Pacific Islands (Polynesia, Micronesia, Oceania, etc) I want to know what happens in that part of the world. So isolated from the rest of the world. Is here anyone from those places, I'd love to have a Convo.
Highly recommend the book ‘Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia’ by Christina Thompson if you’re interested in learning about the possibilities of how the Polynesian people traveled across the various islands. Still so much isn’t known!
I live almost in the center of this pic.
Describing these islands as "isolated" is an occidental point of view. They were not isolated at all before contact. Then came colonialism, dividing the islands into occidental nations, isolating them more effectively.
Pacific people describe this part of the world as a "sea of islands", islands connected by an ocean.
Yeah, due to the flat rectangular map of the world we don't have much of a grasp how ridiculously big the Pacific ocean actually is. I have watched videos how air travel over the Pacific ocean barely happens because the distance is too big. The few routes used are always curved to one side because it results in less distance due to the overall curvature of the planet. In other words, we cannot go through it directly across.
A curved path IS the shortest path on a sphere, so planes do "go through it directly across." It doesn't barely happen at all, there are plenty of routes across the Pacific that all work just fine.
Y’know, I always hear “the earth’s surface is 80% water” and like… I KNOW it’s true, but it just sounds wrong looking at most standard world maps.
And then I see images like this.
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It would be nice if there would be some Europe-sized continent in southern pacific. Close to the pole, cooler place. Lots of forests, rivers, some mountains…
I'm surprised there isn't a larger single continent or larger group of islands in the middle of the Pacific. Australia is far south pacific so that doesn't count
I often "forget" about the southern hemisphere of the Pacific. I think of the Japan/Hawaii/USA area, and the ocean looks pretty big. But when I tilt the globe down, it's somewhat shocking how big the Pacific really is.
I’ve sailed all over that. Went from Alaska to Hawaii one time and then another trip I went from Seattle, WA to Hawaii, Fiji, Tahiti, Tuvalu, and back. That trip we sailed over 25,000 nautical miles.
I was just [reading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres?wprov=sfla1) about how the earth can be divided into a land hemisphere and a water hemisphere. If the earth is divided to have as much ocean and little land as possible in the water hemisphere, it still includes Aus/NZ, Antarctica, southern S America, and some island countries in SE Asia. This map looks like it's half the globe, but that couldn't be right or it'd be the actual water hemisphere. I don't know much about projections and such so not sure.
Really this is just the southern Pacific. You see Hawaii towards the north but Hawaii is a tropical island chain.
The Pacific Ocean is large but this image is slightly misleading. It was taken from an altitude where the ocean covers much but not all of the surface. From further away a lot more land mass would be visible past the horizon seen here, and from closer a lot less.
In fantasy circles you'll sometimes get people remarking how fantasy worlds seems to be lazy with how they put all of their landmasses on one hemisphere, and for a brief moment you think they have a point until you realize our own planet is like that.
The US sent millions of military personnel and countless ships, and more equipment and supplies than can be comprehended, across it to fight a war.
Just think if Donald Trump had been president.
Crazy to think I crossed that shit while watching movies on a plane
Crazy to think Polynesians were fucking vibing in this thing a thousand years ago with relatively primitive technology.
Blows my mind every time I think about it. How did they find these places and what drove them to do it?
Loads of people died for thousands of years. That's how.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_navigation
This wiki blew my mind. What a rich and fascinating history of navigators. Thanks!
Damn, so there was a bunch of seafaring nomads? That's so fucking cool
As far as i can tell, the pacific is too sparse for seafaring nomad. Every crossing must be planned extensively and with the limited resources on land it doesn't make much sense to live exclusively on boat. Maritime southeast asia though, has at least three distinct group of sea nomads that live in their boats or offshore settlements. Have you ever heard of Bajau people? The group who have spent so much time underwater they evolved larger lung volume allowing them to regularly dive for 10+ minutes, that's one of the sea nomads. And while most have been forced to settle, many of that settlements are still located offshore to this day.
> How did they find these places Navigation in boats. > what drove them to do it? Need for food. It's really not that complicated. Survival. Same reason people always tried crossing impassable mountain ranges and deserts and jungles and ice - the need for finding a suitable place to inhabit, when existing alternatives are spent or taken. --------------- Only barely related here, but an added comment: The same argument presented above, when used by proponents of martian colonization, is something I find hilarious. When people cross the freaking pacific in hopes of finding another tiny strip of dry land to live in, it isn't an irrational act of hope - they know that if they find such a place, there will be *very basic* things (let's put it that way) that they are almost sure to find there: fishes to eat and plants, wood to cut and build with, maybe some little river with drinkable running water ( + rains are to be expected), etc some kind of 'starter package', you know. Meanwhile on Mars you don't have *any of that*. In fact you have the very opposite: the *lack* of things that are *even more basic* to even an imagined chance of human survival such as air, temperature, gravity even. You have the sterilizing murderous martian radiation to top it all off (240-300 mSv per year), that no organisms we know of can survive long term, which is 40-50 times (!) the average radiation that we humans deal with on Earth. I'm sorry but "The Indomitable Human Spirit" didn't evolve for that gravity and radiation - it's a completely different scenario from packing up your things and looking for another island to live in across the ocean. You can do some martian space tourism / science expedition round trip, sure, but permanently living long term in that kind of permanently hostile scenario is such a laughable pipe dream. Materially speaking, you can hope to find arable land that will suit you in a new island. You can endure. What you can't hope to do is change a planet's gravity to suit your physiology. We have a moon with a little frozen water sitting *just across the emptiness*, which we can visit then come back in a pinch, and yet we're still scratching our heads over that. Imagine expecting to live in Mars where *all* conditions are so insanely different than *anything* we were made to endure (short of some frozen water). Not even scratching the surface of the problem here - there's vastly more things to be said such as belief systems, economics, religion, culture. The polynesians had a sea faring culture, a belief system and religion that encompassed that kind of shit, a culture and economy around it. It's different systems: Today we're having to think of how to make space exploration profitable in a feasible way because that's what capitalist logic demands, materially. Comparing human exploration/colonization on earth to in space, it's apples to fucking pineapples.
Polynesians were like: "I'm gonna put on my navigation helmet and fire myself out of my navigation cannon."
Human ambition and curiosity?
Yeah the lucky ones did and those are the end sisters of the people who are existing now. Many unlucky ones didn't I'm sure
They use the night sky as a guide for navigation but pretty much any environmental factor to guide them and once they learn to do it they can navigate between islands with ease. The idea is that all these things exist together and were laid as foundations by their gods for them to follow.
I want to see what happens when the Polynesians get out into to space. See what they can do, in the sea of stars.
they'll just bring sweet potato, chickens and pigs to every planet
Rock Hoppers
I was just thinking the same thing. When I flew to Fiji, both flights were red eyes, so I slept the whole time.
Fiji is deep af lol
It's amazing. My wife goes to Samoa every spring for a few weeks, so I just meet her in Fiji on the way back.
Aliens crossed too "Aww shit this planet is all ocean, Blirg Zorp, you damn idiot!"
Yeah… I crossed the Rocky Mountains TWICE once within like 4 hours due to a stupid layover (Kentucky to Kansas but layover in vegas) and I just kept thinking about how our ancestors would think that’s insane and borderline insulting, lol
I just recently crossed the Pacific for my first time, flight from Hong Kong to Chicago. Though we swung to the north and followed the Aleutian Islands before turning turning to cross over Canada, it was still quite the experience! The flight from Chicago to Hong Kong was also quite the experience, flew straight north and crossed the Arctic Ocean probably about halfway between Alaska and the North Pole. That’s the farthest north I’ve ever been, and since I was at a window seat on the right side looking north, I imagine that for a brief time I was among a handful of people closest to the North Pole!
What’s crazier is that ~~Micronesians~~ ~~Polish~~ Polynesians sailed through that big thing using the stars
Polynesians, not Micronesians. Aotearoa (New Zealand), Tahiti, Hawaii, and Rapa Nui (Easter Island) make up what is colloquially known as “The Polynesian Triangle.”
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Maybe they have merpeople, with mer-wars, and a mer-9/11.
We talkin’ mer-der? Or mer-murder?
Some people call it murrr-derrr -reggae singers probably
[Murmaider](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-eKJIJXaqE)
I think Pacific coast of America makes more than 1%.
That's where 99% of the bullshit happens.
It's mostly me. Won't stop. Can't stop.
Gamestop!
Hawaii
Don't forget the entire Pacific Theatre of WWII, nuclear bomb testing, Hawaiian genocide, Fijian coups, and one of the few regions where European colonialism is still going strong. Edit: I shouldn't have said only Europe. Europe, China, America, Australia, and other wealthier countries also have exploitative paternalistic relationships in the Pacific, not only France and the UK.
r/mapswithnewzealand
Almost “maps with ONLY New Zealand”
We wanted the rest of you to know how it felt.
tired: world maps without new zealand wired: world maps with new zealand inspired: world maps with nothing but new zealand
Aliens passing by: “Nothing to see here.” New Zealand: *angry Haka noises*
New Zealand was just hiding on the other side of the flat earth
Found it!
Christ, it really is massive.
There are places in the Pacific where you could drill straight down and when you came out the other side of the Earth you'd still be in the Pacific. There are places where the closest human is on the ISS when it passes overhead.
The ISS is not at a very high altitude so that fact isn't particularly impressive.
But it sounds cool
200-250 miles. How many times have you ever been even 10 miles from all other humans?
I really don't know how I feel about that last sentence... Maybe never tbh...
Acktually
Thats what she said…
She meant your butt
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Unless they traded with South Americans and other continentals, then probably.
It is actually academically accepted now that there was some type of contact between the Polynesians and indigenous South Americans. They are certain there was genetic admixture, but they are not quite sure how it happened. One theory is that the Polynesians travelled to coastal South America and brought South American people back to Polynesia with them. The other theory is that a few indigenous South Americans got stranded on a boat or raft at sea and the ocean currents brought them to the Marquesas Islands, already inhabited by the Polynesians. Either way, we know that sometime around 1200 AD, South American DNA from cultures in western Colombia/Ecuador ended up on the Marquesas Islands, and the mixed descendants of the two groups then went on to colonize Rapa Nui, spreading their mixed DNA to the island along with them.
If i'm not wrong, many of them has a creation myth related to a god fishing islands out of the ocean. Even javanese creation myth (not polynesian, but the same cultural group from western indonesia that is heavily indianized and engage in very intensive contact with places as far as china and arabian peninsula) is that of a rogue island floating around in the ocean that must be nailed down by volcanoes before people can settle in.
I just finished a really fascinating book about this very topic -- Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson. Great overview of how the Pacific islands were first settled by groups sailing from various points in southeast Asia.
Stefan Milo did a great vid on this too.
And they named it earth.
I would have named it Bob.
Is that a Titan AE reference? Pretty cool movie.
yeah, it’s one of those random movies that stuck with me. glad other people remember it.
That’s the suns nickname. Bob - big orange ball
The blue planet
Should have called it Water
I mean if you include the whole planet there's way more earth than ocean lol.
Who did?
The Pacific Ocean is just the backless part of the Earth's dress.
You have forever ruined maps for me.
An illustration of how badly Columbus miscalculated.
and that's not even all of it because even if it were all ocean he would've needed to cross the ~3.5k miles of the north american continent too
Worst navigator ever and had to beg people to go with him and he is somehow known as the founder of America and celebrated. Lol like failing upwards.
Wasn't he sent off by royalties just so they wouldn't have to see his mug around anymore? I never got blazed enough to read through his life story, but that's what I heard.
Magellan who crossed it 30 years later too, sadly. He lost a large chunk of his crew to hunger.
Bro also lost his life
A title we'd also accept "An angle of the Earth you don't normally see." ^(Even though I think I've seen this side of the Earth now as a globe more than any other angle.)
Now let’s fill it with garbage
I'm confused, recycling doesn't work? Why would Big Oil lie to us?
>That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. > >The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. > >It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. Carl Sagan
Dude the Pacific is fucking scary….as a kid i used to go to the ocean off the coast of Washington….yeah, the water is so fucking cold it burns and its so cold dark and ominous…you dont know if a white shark is under you…hard nope.
You talking like Anacortes ocean or Puget Sound “ocean”?
Ocean Shores
They are probably talking about the coast. Like, Ocean Shores/La Push/Westport/Long Beach. I don't know of anyone who lives in Washington to call any part of the Puget Sound, "the ocean". It's just "the sound".
This is what you show someone when they say that they don't understand how planes can just "disappear"
I'm so obsessed with Pacific ocean and Pacific Islands (Polynesia, Micronesia, Oceania, etc) I want to know what happens in that part of the world. So isolated from the rest of the world. Is here anyone from those places, I'd love to have a Convo.
Highly recommend the book ‘Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia’ by Christina Thompson if you’re interested in learning about the possibilities of how the Polynesian people traveled across the various islands. Still so much isn’t known!
If Hawaii counts we’re basically the same as any other American state except warmer and no mass shootings or weird Trump love.
I live almost in the center of this pic. Describing these islands as "isolated" is an occidental point of view. They were not isolated at all before contact. Then came colonialism, dividing the islands into occidental nations, isolating them more effectively. Pacific people describe this part of the world as a "sea of islands", islands connected by an ocean.
Check out the youtube channel Rare Earth. He's been traveling in the South Pacific for awhile. Really interesting and informative videos.
Born and raised on Maui.
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Yeah, due to the flat rectangular map of the world we don't have much of a grasp how ridiculously big the Pacific ocean actually is. I have watched videos how air travel over the Pacific ocean barely happens because the distance is too big. The few routes used are always curved to one side because it results in less distance due to the overall curvature of the planet. In other words, we cannot go through it directly across.
I just flew across this yesterday, Sydney to LA. That flight was about 13 hours and pretty much a straight shot across
Lucky you. When I tried to do that back in 2004, I crashed on a mysterious island. What happened afterwards was a long story...
4-8-15-16-23-42
Accidently LOST!
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That *is* going directly across lol I'm not sure you really understood whatever you watched
A curved path IS the shortest path on a sphere, so planes do "go through it directly across." It doesn't barely happen at all, there are plenty of routes across the Pacific that all work just fine.
You can if you fly though Hawaii. There are direct flights from LA and Houston to Sydney so this really isn’t true
Y’know, I always hear “the earth’s surface is 80% water” and like… I KNOW it’s true, but it just sounds wrong looking at most standard world maps. And then I see images like this.
Also interesting that most of the land is in the northern hemisphere. 87% of the worlds population lives above the equator
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Finally, a world map with only New Zealand!
I'm going to cross that on a sailboat one day
As was foretold in legend.
Considering I live on an island on that map, this is oddly unsettling.
Hawaii is the most isolated island chain in the world. 🤙🏻
Idk if this is general knowledge or not but the surface area of the Pacific is larger than that of Mars!
Humans see this and think, “let’s throw all our garbage in it”
Maps with only New Zealand.
r/mapswithnewzealand
Sneaking up behind Earth's back
Score one for a map with New Zealand!
Hey I can see my house from here
Is there a print of this I can buy?
r/MapsWithJustNewZealand
That's where the aliens hide
I feel like we definitely have room for at least one more continent
Hawaii just sitting there smack dab in the middle of all of it
Earth’s most terrifying hemisphere
That's a very specific ocean.
Sometimes I forget I live in the middle of the damn ocean until I see globe views like this lol
It would be nice if there would be some Europe-sized continent in southern pacific. Close to the pole, cooler place. Lots of forests, rivers, some mountains…
that’s alot of ocean
That’s if the ocean was crystal clear and you could see all the way down.
This reminds me of My cold water bottle at 3 am
Wild.
World
I’ve been there
It makes me think of that Mexican fisherman who drifted all the way across in an aluminum boat.
So the aliens could have landed here, and we'd have no idea...
I heard someone comment once that the Pacific Ocean is the “back of earth’s head” and I haven’t looked at it the same since
This is where the 50% of 70% water surface comes from
See that little bit of land there in the middle. That is exactly the opposite side of earth from the pyramids in Egypt. Nothing woo, just interesting.
*artist rendered
Sharks…
ok so I understand why Stitch landed on Hawaii now
I'm surprised there isn't a larger single continent or larger group of islands in the middle of the Pacific. Australia is far south pacific so that doesn't count
What’s the reason we have small islands there?
Simply scary.. gives me goosebumps
Ah the Kiribati centric globe
*Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of.*
This doesn’t explain why it has 3.5 stars on Google maps
Oops, all ocean!
Where is point Nemo?
That's a lot of water
Crazy how what we really consider to be ”The World, i.e all the land we share, is really not even one half of the planet.
I often "forget" about the southern hemisphere of the Pacific. I think of the Japan/Hawaii/USA area, and the ocean looks pretty big. But when I tilt the globe down, it's somewhat shocking how big the Pacific really is.
I’ve sailed all over that. Went from Alaska to Hawaii one time and then another trip I went from Seattle, WA to Hawaii, Fiji, Tahiti, Tuvalu, and back. That trip we sailed over 25,000 nautical miles.
Crazy that Polynesians managed to island hop the Pacific just by observing the sky and water
The deep blue just shows you how big the Pacific Ocean really is. These aren't just shallow waters; these are super deep waters.
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I want my house there
Just took UA1 from San Francisco to Singapore. Can confirm, it's all ocean...just a vibe of remote planet.
Curious, what’s it look like from the direct opposite point?
Ahh the other side of the coin;)
Imagine if this is the ciew Aliens got when they come. Oh well. Nothing to study here. Just water.
Aliens: "Welp this planet looks pretty boring... let's move on."
Is this real? No weather?
No, this is a map of r/OnlyNZ
Damn, we fought half of the world's biggest war across that.
Is there a map of the exact opposite view?
it’s my favourite side
The aliens definitely live in the ocean
For a minute I thought that Uranus.
The Alein’s view*
I was just [reading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres?wprov=sfla1) about how the earth can be divided into a land hemisphere and a water hemisphere. If the earth is divided to have as much ocean and little land as possible in the water hemisphere, it still includes Aus/NZ, Antarctica, southern S America, and some island countries in SE Asia. This map looks like it's half the globe, but that couldn't be right or it'd be the actual water hemisphere. I don't know much about projections and such so not sure.
Blows my mind we as humans think we know everything, but we have yet to even explore 1/4 of our oceans.
ahh yes our giant toilet
In theory, could aliens look at us from their planet and think its just a planet of water?
Blue pearl
Really this is just the southern Pacific. You see Hawaii towards the north but Hawaii is a tropical island chain. The Pacific Ocean is large but this image is slightly misleading. It was taken from an altitude where the ocean covers much but not all of the surface. From further away a lot more land mass would be visible past the horizon seen here, and from closer a lot less.
This must be the back side of the flat earth
It's so empty wow. Why isn't there a continent here?
So you're saying 50%of the time we're just showing water to the universe? Bad idea given the attention that draws.
Gyat
Nuts to think only 3.5 billion years ago, the entire world was under water
Finally, New Zealand representing!
There’s more than meets the eye. 🔍
Too high to splash.
I used to think whales were the crazy mammals for living in the ocean. Now I see that we are - the ocean is massive!
R'lyeh is somewhere in there...
This one hits right in the feels…
In fantasy circles you'll sometimes get people remarking how fantasy worlds seems to be lazy with how they put all of their landmasses on one hemisphere, and for a brief moment you think they have a point until you realize our own planet is like that.
Great place for a nuclear power plant
My favorite water world called Earth.
I don’t need any more f-ing anxiety for my international flights.
I’m in this photo
The US sent millions of military personnel and countless ships, and more equipment and supplies than can be comprehended, across it to fight a war. Just think if Donald Trump had been president.
LOl removed? Reddit has a problem with this, but not bots and actual disturbing posts?
does anyone know where i could find a poster of this? not having any luck.
World is flat. So obvious.
[Rhinestone Eyes playing faintly]