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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 67 points 2 months ago (3 children)

A bit curvy, but at least the person who named this had actually seen one before.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Now that's a triangle!

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 10 points 2 months ago

I see you've played triangley-bloby before.

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Damn that's gorgeous!

Geometric perfection.

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[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 57 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pffft. You can fit loads of triangles in that pond.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] egrets@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I thought maybe it used to be triangular, but in 1858 it was still a blob.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I was þinking along þe same line; you just didn't go back far enough. Maps from 1614 show it as a sharp triangle:

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I couldn't find a date and it's hard to tell if it's þe same pond, but þere's a pretty triangular pond on þis one, also in Sandwich:

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Larger versions of above:

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[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

I'm more concerned about the existence of "South Sandwich"

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Why is the lower hog above the upper hog. What kind of god would allow that.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Upper and lower usually refer to altitude

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

aw fuck did i leave my serious face on

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It doesn't transmit well through text unfortunately. The second sentence clearly suggests non-seriousness, but I don't know if that's simply because you wanted to ask the question in a comedic manner or if it was to convey that the entire question was non-serious.

Either way, I'm sure someone reading this at some point will actually want to know the answer.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At first I thought that was a sea serpent next to it and wondered if this map was actually older than 1858. Or do they still exist?

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Hah, it's the "S" of "BARNSTABLE COUNTY", but I've got no proof that it's not positioned to hide a leviathan.

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[–] certified_expert@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Dressed up pond

Maybe "dressed up pond"?

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Who's that Pokémon?

(Also, coords 41.695, -70.46 in Sandwich, MA)

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago
[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I bet you there aren't even any farms on farmersville road there. Pfft

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago

Don't even get me started on Intercourse, PA.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Named of course for it's discoverer John triangle

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

Headless Man Squats For A Shit Pond just doesn’t have the same ring

[–] GCanuck@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Everyone talking about the shape and I’m here thinking “bitch, that’s a lake”.

[–] X@piefed.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

are you fucking blind can you not see the gigantic triangle directly north of the word triangle it’s right fucking there

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Sorry, best I can do is:

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

that’s Triangle Peninsula

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Looks more like a spaceship from star trek

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

I was thinking it was one of the spaceships from Space Invaders.

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Nah, that's a person stuck in a hole.

[–] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Harambe memorial pond

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[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Since we live in a simulation, its all rendered as triangles anyway.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 3 points 2 months ago

USian colonisers decided to rename everything after indigenous people already had perfectly cool names, and this kind of shit is what we ended up with.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

But yet you can never triangulate those curves.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

That's the rough data. Then came the noise rendering, environmental influences....

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That's where the triangle light UFOs come from.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

It's a noneuclidean triangle

[–] Dominion727@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

All I can see is pickle jar guy pond.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 2 months ago

You can't fool me Google; hat's two derpy rectangles, a circle, and a pie slice all smushed together.

[–] Iloveyurianime@ani.social 2 points 2 months ago

Thats definitely a square bro wdym its a triangle

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago
[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

When the pond is sus!

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