You can fit 16 polands into that area. OP doesn’t make any claim that you can only fit 16.
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I really don’t understand why you’re doubling down here, when faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The map I used and the one originally posted are both from the same website, and when overlaid, the two maps match pixel for pixel. There is no difference in projection or distortion between them. The outlines of Poland are very clearly not the same size all over the map.
Not true. This is a screenshot taken from https://thetruesize.com/, which addresses the issue you mention. You can see, for example, that the yellow outline of poland is larger than the cyan one nearer the equator.
Here’s one I did myself to better illustrate that effect:

The Pacific ocean has a surface area of approximately 165 million square kilometres, and poland is about 300,000 square kilometres, so on that basis, you should be able to squeeze around 550 polands into the Pacific, though poorly fitting edges would obviously reduce that, but suffice to say, 16 is well undercounted, and the image accurately portrays that
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Oh my god, you just reminded me of the pc bleeper digitised sound bites that battle chess played on PC back in the day when the pieces were taken
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3·28 days agoIf you’re asking whether any supernova have occurred, then yes, they have.
If you’re asking whether humans have seen a supernova, then yes also - the most famous is probably SN 1006, which was the brightest stellar object ever seen by humans, brighter than venus in the sky, and was recorded in the year 1006 by many different societies. There have been several others documented over the last 1000 years.
In addition, which might be more what you’re asking, there have been stars, or at least light sources that look like stars, which have simply appeared and vanished again within a matter of minutes or hours, and their disappearances are often left poorly explained - they could be supernova that for some reason didn’t go nova, or something else entirely. There’s a project called VASCO (Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observation):
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7·29 days agoThat’s what supernova are.
Other stars like our own will eventually, in about 5 billion years, become a red giant and then a white dwarf, but will take hundreds of billions of years to cool to the point where they no longer emit light, so none of them have had enough time for that to happen yet.
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Took me a while, but north is to the bottom left, and the land mass is mostly the sahara desert, with the Strait of Gibraltar near the edge .
Northern and southern lights are visible to highlight where the two poles are.
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22·2 months agoThat may be the case in Danish
Dutch, but it’s incorrect to call them mills in English.
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5·2 months agoI’m saying this only because Donny keeps calling them windmills and nobody wants to be like him - they’re wind turbines, not mills. There is no grain being crushed as there would be in a mill.
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How are they going to use a personal device when corporate policy locks that down?




Well at least there are a few backups in case Poland should ever need restoring.