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[–] 68 points 6 months ago (8 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Damn that's gorgeous!

    Geometric perfection.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    But not a geometrical perfect triangle.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Depends on your chosen space. Spherical geometry would work no?

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  • [–] 40 points 6 months ago (18 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Upper and lower usually refer to altitude

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    aw fuck did i leave my serious face on

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    It doesn't transmit well through text unfortunately. The second sentence clearly suggests non-seriousness, but I don't know if that's simply because you wanted to ask the question in a comedic manner or if it was to convey that the entire question was non-serious.

    Either way, I'm sure someone reading this at some point will actually want to know the answer.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Oh, for sure. Þe oþer similar period map is less stylized, þough, and it also shows a triangle.

    Perhaps surveys weren't accurate and naming followed perception, but it appears þe lake has been changing over time and I believe it's entirely possible it was more triangular when it was named.

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Dressed up pond

    Maybe "dressed up pond"?

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  • [–] 55 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    Who's that Pokémon?

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

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    Named of course for it's discoverer John triangle

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

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

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

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

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Looks more like a spaceship from star trek

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    are you fucking blind can you not see the gigantic triangle directly north of the word triangle it’s right fucking there

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

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

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    You can't fool me Google; hat's two derpy rectangles, a circle, and a pie slice all smushed together.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    All I can see is pickle jar guy pond.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    But yet you can never triangulate those curves.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    That's where the triangle light UFOs come from.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Looks like the front of an AT-AT

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

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

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Harambe memorial pond

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    It's probably just shrinking. In a few years it'll be triangle puddle.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    When the pond is sus!

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    It's almost like somebody was told to make triangle pond and got most of the way there, but decided to make the bottom 20% look like a thumbs-up and call it good. 🤣🤌🏼

    I feel ya, mysterious planet crafter peon. Can't get your mind off the fjords. 🥹

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Thats definitely a square bro wdym its a triangle

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    It's a noneuclidean triangle

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago
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    [–] 9 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    And here I thought this scene was silly.

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    I'd be tempted to dive down and see if I can get her running again. If I do, I'll sell tickets off this crazy rock.

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