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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 67 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

Now that's a triangle!

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 10 points 2 weeks ago

I see you've played triangley-bloby before.

[-] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Damn that's gorgeous!

Geometric perfection.

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[-] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 58 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] egrets@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Denvil@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 weeks ago

I mean it creates a triangular peninsula out of the land according to their map anyways, I could see it

[-] egrets@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

If that's the reason for the name, it's funny that it's lost the triangular shape of the southern promontory but gained a new one in the north-west.

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago

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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[-] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[-] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Upper and lower usually refer to altitude

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

aw fuck did i leave my serious face on

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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Who's that Pokémon?

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

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Named of course for it's discoverer John triangle

[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] toynbee@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] GCanuck@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] X@piefed.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

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 21 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry, best I can do is:

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

that’s Triangle Peninsula

[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago

Looks more like a spaceship from star trek

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Harambe memorial pond

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[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's a noneuclidean triangle

[-] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 3 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Looks like the front of an AT-AT

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's where the triangle light UFOs come from.

[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

But yet you can never triangulate those curves.

[-] Dominion727@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

All I can see is pickle jar guy pond.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 2 weeks 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 weeks ago

Thats definitely a square bro wdym its a triangle

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago
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