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The Mercator Projection Distorts the Size of the Earth
The mercator projection distorts the size of continents, especially towards the top and bottom poles. So if you want to really understand the earth, you have to look at a globe. And also, if you take a mocator projection and you try to actually use like a ruler to measure distances between points under recator projection, till i see where your airplane flight is going to be.