Man, the left part of the US is pretty rough-looking. I bet the first westward-moving settlers got over the Great Smoky Mountains and were like, "Phew. We made it over the tough part! It looks like it's pretty flat from here on out."
And then they ran into the Rockies and were like, "Fuck."
I'm 65 years old and this helped me see the US in a different way than I ever had before. There should be at least one 4 by 8 foot 3d model of this in every school system. Add in a projector aimed at it with slides of different things like state boundaries, it would be an amazing teaching tool.
![image showing Conterminous US elevation generalized by 500km² hexagonal tessellation [OC]](3f042787-3d60-5891-863e-148df0b6a301.jpg)
jaysabi on September 5th, 2020 at 01:25 UTC »
Just to clarify, we're all just a bunch of guys and gals who all understand all the words in the title, right?
CurlSagan on September 5th, 2020 at 01:49 UTC »
Man, the left part of the US is pretty rough-looking. I bet the first westward-moving settlers got over the Great Smoky Mountains and were like, "Phew. We made it over the tough part! It looks like it's pretty flat from here on out."
And then they ran into the Rockies and were like, "Fuck."
cocoabeach on September 5th, 2020 at 03:18 UTC »
I'm 65 years old and this helped me see the US in a different way than I ever had before. There should be at least one 4 by 8 foot 3d model of this in every school system. Add in a projector aimed at it with slides of different things like state boundaries, it would be an amazing teaching tool.