{"id":1136,"date":"2026-04-09T02:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:08:09","slug":"the-world-from-other-angles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"The World From Other Angles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What place on Earth peeks from the clouds in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nasa2explore\/albums\/72177720307234654\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artemis II pictures<\/a>? It&#8217;s fun to figure from tiny features: &#8220;Ah, that light is ancient Carthage! With streetlights.&#8221; Or from lost shorelines: &#8220;Ah, that&#8217;s north Oz!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the course of using Google Earth to match the pics, I found this:<\/p>\n<p><script>\nfunction flip()\n{\n  var el = document.getElementById(\"sabulk\");\n  el.style.display = (el.style.display == \"block\") ? \"none\" : \"block\";\n  var el = document.getElementById(\"satwisted\");\n  el.style.display = (el.style.display == \"block\") ? \"none\" : \"block\";\n};\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"sabulk\" style=\"display:block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/alex\/blog\/images\/sa_bulk_01.jpg\" alt=\"Bulky Continent\" onclick=\"flip()\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"satwisted\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/alex\/blog\/images\/sa_twisted_01.jpg\" alt=\"Twisted Continent\" onclick=\"flip()\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"flip()\">Click the picture to reveal.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where in the world is this? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=1136\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggy-things","category-humor","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}