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Dymaxion Airocean World:
“You notice there is the cold pole of the Northern Hemisphere. The colors here are the mean low temperatures of the Earth. The mean highs are about all the same everywhere. It is the mean lows that are different. This is the cold pole of the Northern Hemisphere: you see those dark greens, lighter greens, yellows, and finally the reds. We see that is actually a bull’s eye and we get into the Southern Hemisphere temperate zone… Ninety-eight percent of humanity are in the northern temperate zones. It is quite extraordinary; these really very, very odd, out-of-the-way conditions… I have seven percent of the world’s population in North America. I can go from any place in North America and reach 86 percent of humanity without going near the Atlantic or Pacific. These are the shortest great-circle routes. This is the great stip map of the new air age and the old Mercator projection is practically meaningless.”
