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Earth: now quilted!

Alright, that's a wrap, nothing better than this comment will be released today.

It's fine, they'll stretch back out after a millennium or two.

Seems fairly simple, we just have to find the valve* & release a little pressure. Not too much, cause then the crust will get all loose & go a bit saggy, just enough to flatten the surface down again. *I think there's one in the Mariana Trench?

It's not necessarily NASA's fault. This happens when the temperature is over 40° C and it should be a maximum of 30.

While we're at it, can we get some circular meridians? It'd make things much more convenient, thanks.

I briefly had an inversion (I think in combo with skimming the first part of the caption - "Nasa accidentally ..." where I was looking at the grey areas as land masses, and white as Oceans, and was really having trouble figuring out if the continents were inversed, or we were looking at South Pole.

The UK was in deep enough depression without making it literal...

What would it look like from the ground in one of the gigavalleys?

Broke: flat earth Woke: round earth Bespoke: thicc earth

Squeezy does it, N.A.S.A.!

New what if?

That's really how we're trying to cover up how fat we've gotten?

Ups!

Aliens: "Yo why this planet kinda look like a hot air balloon"

The Rubenesque Projection

*Krusty Planets

It also simultaneously suggests some obvious national borders and a relatively equitable distribution of land. 1,3any 4,2istan -5,1ica ...we don't talk about those countries in the neg-negs.

but on hormuz

3,476,528 people dead.

This is kinda sexy

fishnets

The new name proposal is Fatitude and Shortitude.

@realinfowars.bsky.social

Earth in fishnets.

On the plus side, the Sahara now has a river running through it

Finally, London gets what's been coming for centuries.

More like SHORTitude! Amirite??? AMIRITE???

Nah, it's just water weight.

This reads like a headline for The Onion.

Sexy fishnet earth

We need a “What if” episode on what this would do to Earth’s geography now. Crack tectonic plates? destroy cities that lay along lines?

muffin top earth

good art

@earational.bsky.social

They're called fishnets and she is serving in them.

kind of a milf.... reblogged

NOAA surely

I really want to know how this would work out ....so we get a grid ocean and mountains far above the atmosphere , then a tiny inhabitable zone along all the shores. Geology couldn't support it for long , the tectonics would be something else.

Earth lookin' thicc in those fishnets

Why do you not include the original alt text in your posts? They're part of the humour.

flexing artistic prowess

what happens when the tag say lay flat to dry and no one can decide on mercator vs AuthaGraph

Once the pin has been pulled, Earth Grenade is no longer your friend.

Earth lookin kinda fine tho~

Hence earth is neither flat, nor spherical. It is a tangerine.

Planet is gonna need some Ozempic

Don't panic! Hints from Helioese says you can fix it by soaking them in a slightly warming ocean for half an hour -- preferably with some hair conditioner or baby shampoo -- then squeeze them out and roll them in a really REALLY large towel and stretch them out by hand to air-dry.

With all of the republican cuts, it was bound to happen!

of all the xkcd posts to get people horned up i hadn't expected it to be the one about latitude and longitude

Title text: "NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730)." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3273#Transcript

Now do one where the water adjusts 🥹