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These elevations look highly exaggerated. The differences in elevation aren’t that extreme.
Absolutely. You’d be able to see Colorado from most of the country if the elevation was to the same scale as the horizonal distance.
Run Google Earth (the app or in the browser) and you can see how relatively flat it all is.
Someone sounds like a flat earther
The proof is right there in the picture!!!
Well. Okay. I admit it looks like a very bumpy earth.
Nothing an iron can’t fix.
Your comment made me think of if countries where people that had boob sizes relative to their peak elevation
I mean its zero to 14.5k feet. Hike to the top of Mount Whitney and tell me again it’s exaggerated.
First, it’s not zero. Denver is 5000ft ASL and it’s in a valley (towns around it are higher). There’s a slow elevation change across the Midwest to the Rockies.
Second, Passes are a thing.
Still, wagons crossing the Rockies is an amazing thing.
Many people died finding and verifying new passes. Or being scammed into being the ones to verify a new pass they thought was already verified
Most went north to Oregon originally then south to California. The Sierras are also a bitch, see the Donner party for more info.
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It looks to be a repost from several years prior, from a different author newishtodc.
Reposting from Reddit is a data preservation duty.
Yes, but I meant that the linked Reddit post itself was a repost, at lower resolution even, and that one also had been a repost, of this one with a mod note claiming that it is OC.
So I was mentioning the true (we think?) rather than merely the latest source and author. I hope that helps.
Oh, right right, I get you now. Thank you for your service, kind sophont.
It is conversations like these that make me glad I found the Fediverse:-). Rather than instantly lash out with hate from either of our side, we continued to discourse to get to the root of the issue and found common ground in our desire to preserve knowledge.:-) You know, a “conversation” rather than seeking opportunities for trolling.
Whereas on Reddit I would not have bothered to say anything in the first place - that place is just a lost cause at this point:-(. Thank you for helping make this place worth coming to:-).
Right back at ya. Cheers!
I’m not a fan of bots reposting stuff from reddit onto lemmy. Lemmy for me was supposed to be a complete replacement of reddit, not just a proxy.
Meh, we need content. Until we get more people here posting OC, and as long as people comment, which is where the interesting parts have always been in my opinion, I’m okay with it.
Well the comments aren’t reposts at least. I get way more insight and engagement in here than I ever did on reddit
Reddit isn’t original content its just an aggregator so it should be fine to post interesting reddit posts to lemmy. But having a bot do it is just copying the trash from reddit over to here with no filter.
I have spent a lot of time in denver, and also a lot of time in the Smoky mountains in the East which looked pretty mild compared to the Western mountains on the map and that’s pretty accurate. And yes the map does go down to zero. I realize that a lot of Kansas gains elevation towards Colorado, and eastern Colorado gains elevation towards the mountains, I’ve driven through there so many times. I think the map’s pretty good
