Too bad it wasn’t MAPle syrup

Strange Maps does it again! This time, it’s a map of the western hemisphere of the Earth… in jelly.

That’s not bad (click it for the embiggened version). The description at Strange Maps gives you the details.

It’s no Lenin, but it’s impressive.

Tip o’ the jam jar lid to our very own ToSeek!

April 30th, 2008 6:00 AM by Phil Plait in Humor, Pareidolia | 8 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

8 Responses to “Too bad it wasn’t MAPle syrup”

1. Zombywoof Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 6:56 am

Man, those sure are some irregular geological features.

Perhaps there is a civilization of sugar based people, inhabiting the sticky prairies of the Jamericas, that feed solely on dirt. We could solve the hunger problem by doing an exchange – our contextual dirt for their contextual dirt.

I have it all worked out…
2. Celtic_Evolution Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 7:57 am

That explains the jam I got stuck in getting to work this morning.
3. Gnat Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 9:27 am

I didn’t know there were mountains in the Mid West!
4. Blu-Ray-Ven Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 10:14 am

odd that florida sticks out straigh east and is twice as long as i remember it to be. mabey cuba drifted north on its plate and fused with florida
5. dtsh Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

Clearly the extra bits around the caribbean represent pirates.
A message from our noodly master, RAmen!
6. BaldApe Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

It’s clearly the FSM.
7. Jeffersonian Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 6:09 pm

@Blu-ray
The Antilles!

Resembles antique maps such as:
http://www.rediscovermachupicchu.com/img-new-world-map.gif

@BA,
Always like to see the doiling lenin post. It’s the reason I started shopping here and the post I force others to grok.
8. jess tauber Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 3:54 pm

Heck, the old WMAP has the whole world laid out- look for yourself if you don’t believe it (you may have to strain your eyes a little). I speculate that everyone will see his/her own world laid out in their own versions, though the layout may not be temporally synchronous (plus or minus a few dozen million years off perhaps?).

I also speculate that the more finely detailed these maps become the more they will converge on the face of….Ben Stein!

Jess Tauber

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