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TheCloudFestival t1_j3bxzg7 wrote

This article is the most clickbait nonsense I've ever seen.

TL;DR - Colorado is indeed a four sided state when represented on a globe, but when it's borders are applied to a flat map, the corrections to the projection distort the otherwise straight borders.

Well thanks Gerardus Mercator, but I heard you died in the C16th?

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herbw t1_j3etb22 wrote

Not really just SOS lack of verification. utube is not the case.

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starmartyr t1_j3f3p57 wrote

That's not correct. The borders aren't perfectly straight. This is due to 19th-century surveying errors rather than flat map distortion. You can see the jagged edges if you zoom in close enough on google earth.

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