The AAA TripTik for the Alaska trip came today. I haven't seen one since I was a little kid. No longer are they strips of roadmaps cut out, highlighted and bound together. Now each page is printed automagically from some GIS onto icky paper at a not particularly high DPI or color range. All the information is there, in a very convenient format, but it completely fails to excite me the way a map should. Oh well.
| In completely other news, the BBC has an article on a study disputing the Chicxulub crater as the source of the KT boundary mass extinction event. Neat stuff, but it includes this map a sidebar. I'm officially registering my disappointment that the map they are using is anachronistic to the tune of 65 million years worth of tectonic drift. Sure, they fake it by using a title refering to modern India, but don't think that is any thing other than a pathetic work-around. Is it really too much to ask a major news organization to have paleontologically correct maps for at least the major, newsworthy periods of Earth's history? |
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