October 29, 2004

The Piri Reis Map. Perhaps the oldest accurate map of the Americas. Or not.
posted by Freen 20 years ago
  • Really cool map stuff! But I'm completely confused by the first link.
  • holy shit..... Good God, at this point, I think self immolation is far too kind. Sorry, that was from a Mefi thread about scary halloween costumes. I pasted it instead of the appropriate link for the Piri Reis map.... here it is... The REAL Piri Reis Map link /me Hides under a rock and hopes the flying poo wasn't frozen first.
  • That 'Nancy' one is teetering the line of humor... but loved the 'Lyndie' one.Guess that shows where my slanted values stand.
  • They all kind of gave me a queasy feeling, Flagpole. While I have no trouble seeing children dressed up as animated rotting corpses, something about the Lynndie and the Prisoner costumes (or maybe it was the kids inside them)makes me think I'll be having some nightmares tonight. Freen, look on the bright side: it'll be nearly impossible to derail this thread.
  • Never mind preen - your map links are fascinating, and the costume one was funny. )!
  • The map links arr intriguing, Thanks, Freen
  • I liked the first link the best.
  • The (real) first link raves about the incredible accuracty of the map, which seems justified for Africa and S. America (except for missing Straits of Magellan - or is that a land bridge), but N. America is a mess. Is the large island to the NW Florida? Cuba? Hispaniola? Whatever it is inaccurate, at least compared to the rest of the map. Very interesting stuff.
  • True, the post derailed itself. Kinda like a self trolling, maybe autotroll. Meta-Troll? Pseudo Troll? yes, it is very interesting stuff... Odd that the parts it has particularly correct, i.e. the coast of antartica, are accurate only a couple of thousand years in the past. Don't know quite to make of it. In my humble opinion, there are more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamt of by our history books.
  • Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. A single crappy parchment map does not pass that test. Words cannot convey my vast disdain for pseudo-science. Not that I'm biased or anything, mind you. But still, it sure does make for fun daydreams of what might-have-been. What a great (a)historical novel it'd make, the story of a sailor-cartographer pulling such a feat so long ago.
  • Freen, I believe the post above mine demonstrates ably what a troll is, in both tone and content. As far as I know, 'derail' refers to posts that get off the original subject. Sometime trolls manage this, but sometimes its just the way the conversation flows.