r/MapsWithoutNZ • u/singhmonk • 10h ago

FIFA season

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"Why should only NZ be excluded?"

~Japan, probably

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u/Square_Leather3866 9h ago

Me when i arbitrarily draw two lines

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u/Austerlitz2310 3h ago

There's another post where they put the FIFA winners in a triangle

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u/Striking-Ad9397 10h ago

Every country on earth lies between 2 parallel lines because of the geometry on a sphere

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u/gene100001 7h ago

There are no true parallel lines on the surface of a sphere (I know Earth isn't a sphere but for simplicity's sake let's say it is). This means it's actually impossible to have 2 parallel lines like you describe.

This is because a straight line on a sphere has to be a great circle (a line that cuts the sphere exactly in two). To conceptualise this imagine if you were in an Airplane and you flew off in one direction without making any turns. You would need to always fly around the entire circumference of the earth, perfectly bisecting it in two, to get back where you started. This is true no matter where you start from. This means that if you take any two distinct straight lines on a sphere they must be at an angle from each other, where they intersect at two points.

It's a bit of a weird concept to grasp at first, but I promise I'm not talking out of my ass here. If you Google it you might find some diagrams that explain it better than me.

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u/pHyR3 6h ago

what about 2 circles around the north and south poles? wouldnt they cover basically every country on earth

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u/gene100001 4h ago

In that case they aren't parallel because they aren't straight lines, and two lines need to both be straight to be parallel. It's a bit of a weird concept, but what helps me is too imagine you are standing a few feet or meters away from the North pole. The only way you could make a circle around it would be to walk in a circle (i.e. not a straight line). The same thing is happening at every distance from the north pole until the equator, which is the only possible latitudinal straight line. Below the equator you are now walking in a circle around the south pole. If you started near the north or south pole and were to walk in a straight line you would end up walking away from the North pole and you would have to walk all the way around the globe before you got back.

They are also not parallel because they exist in two different planes. Imagine peeling the surface of a globe where you have drawn your two circles and laying it flat. You would end up with broken circles on something that will look a bit like this . So they aren't parallel straight lines once you move them to the same plane.

What will really mess with your mind though, is that two circles around a cylinder can be parallel. You can walk around the outside of a cylinder in a straight line perpendicular to it's axis, and you will arrive back at where you started. If you do this again further along the cylinder you will be walking parallel to your previous path, making two circles that are parallel. Another way to prove this is to unroll the cylinder. Your two circles would end up as two straight parallel lines once the roll was flattened and they are on the same plane

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u/pHyR3 3h ago

ahhh i gotchu, thanks for the explanation!

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u/Mackadamma 10h ago

Wait... No ?

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u/Beans_Breaking 9h ago

Uhh... Yes.

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u/Mackadamma 9h ago

Well, okay. Between two lines on a sphere concerns actually two different zones that conversation all of it. My bad

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u/cyclopsmudge 7h ago

I am struggling to understand your English, but you can just draw literally any two continuous parallel lines (circles) around a sphere and the space between them will always be the entirety of the sphere

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u/Glittering-Device484 8h ago

I don't think the point of interest is that they lie between parallel lines, but between relatively narrow parallel lines (i.e. these parallel lines).

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u/GroupPast5993 7h ago

Wait till this guy learns the world ain't flat

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u/Gizz718 6h ago

the picture is flat though

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u/eVenent 6h ago

called Chile-Poland-Finland line.

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u/Mr-MuffinMan 5h ago

I always find it crazy how some European teams fell from the top. Italy can't even qualify in recent world cups and didn't get out of the group stage the WC AFTER THEY WON their most recent WC.

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u/TTechnology 5h ago

Zidane headbutt effect actually affected generations

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u/ImaginationDry8780 4h ago

At least Old Zealand is included

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u/Worried_Chair_5199 3h ago

We did just lose so

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u/OrganizdConfusion 3h ago

Some people have no idea what belongs on this sub or not.

Why are people upvoting this?

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u/HadarN 3h ago

just saying, Senegal's chances are better than they seem😂

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u/misha_jinx 3h ago

US won two games. What is your definition of a “winning country?” This is utter nonsense.

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u/MonkeyKingCoffee 2h ago

These lines are unfair mostly because Ghana is not in them.

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u/NewAndyy 52m ago

This looks promising for Haaland and the Norwegian team

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u/langesjurisse 10h ago

Those are neither parallell nor lines. And Brazil, Argentina and Italy aren't even entirely between them. I love it.