It's probably just shrinking. In a few years it'll be triangle puddle.
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Headless Man Squats For A Shit Pond just doesn’t have the same ring
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.
That's the rough data. Then came the noise rendering, environmental influences....
Objectively worse. Get your shit together triangle pond.
A bit curvy, but at least the person who named this had actually seen one before.
Now that's a triangle!
I see you've played triangley-bloby before.
Damn that's gorgeous!
Geometric perfection.
But not a geometrical perfect triangle.
Just rename to Triangular Pond and call it a day.
Depends on your chosen space. Spherical geometry would work no?
It's a noneuclidean triangle
I thought maybe it used to be triangular, but in 1858 it was still a blob.
What are all those Percival and James type names for?
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?
Hah, it's the "S" of "BARNSTABLE COUNTY", but I've got no proof that it's not positioned to hide a leviathan.
Why is the lower hog above the upper hog. What kind of god would allow that.
Upper and lower usually refer to altitude
aw fuck did i leave my serious face on
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.
I'm more concerned about the existence of "South Sandwich"
I was þinking along þe same line; you just didn't go back far enough. Maps from 1614 show it as a sharp triangle:
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:
Larger versions of above:
Good finds!
Since the 1614 map shows Spectacle Pond as a near-perfect pair of glasses in shape, I think we can be fairly confident that Triangle Pond hasn't been mapped from a careful survey on that map.
Oh, for sure. Þe oþer similar period map is less stylized, þough, and it also shows a triangle.
Perhaps surveys weren't accurate and naming followed perception, but it appears þe lake has been changing over time and I believe it's entirely possible it was more triangular when it was named.
Which is odd, because the second map looks to be from at least 1890, and therefore newer than my map!
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Pffft. You can fit loads of triangles in that pond.
*slaps roof of pond*
Great, now I'm wet.
It’s not that kind of party luv.
Still a Chevron more than at triangle.
Maybe "dressed up pond"?
Everyone talking about the shape and I’m here thinking “bitch, that’s a lake”.
Who's that Pokémon?
(Also, coords 41.695, -70.46 in Sandwich, MA)
Since we live in a simulation, its all rendered as triangles anyway.
Named of course for it's discoverer John triangle
I bet you there aren't even any farms on farmersville road there. Pfft
Don't even get me started on Intercourse, PA.
All I can see is pickle jar guy pond.
are you fucking blind can you not see the gigantic triangle directly north of the word triangle it’s right fucking there
Sorry, best I can do is:
that’s Triangle Peninsula
Harambe memorial pond
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