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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 🥹
66 Comments
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 67 pts · 114d
A bit curvy, but at least the person who named this had actually seen one before.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 114d
Now that's a triangle!
Etterra@discuss.online · 10 pts · 114d
I see you've played triangley-bloby before.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 114d
Damn that's gorgeous!
Geometric perfection.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 113d
But not a geometrical perfect triangle.
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 113d
Depends on your chosen space. Spherical geometry would work no?
save_the_humans@leminal.space · 3 pts · 112d
This pond would probably fit pretty nice on the right hyperbola
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 112d
True. A big enough triangle (or a small enough Earth) would show a curve. But I think it's convex, not concave.
Routhinator@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 113d
Just rename to Triangular Pond and call it a day.
GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca · 56 pts · 114d
Pffft. You can fit loads of triangles in that pond.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 114d
*slaps roof of pond*
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 113d
Great, now I'm wet.
credo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 113d
It’s not that kind of party luv.
egrets@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 114d
I thought maybe it used to be triangular, but in 1858 it was still a blob.
Denvil@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 114d
I mean it creates a triangular peninsula out of the land according to their map anyways, I could see it
egrets@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 114d
If that's the reason for the name, it's funny that it's lost the triangular shape of the southern promontory but gained a new one in the north-west.
Sxan@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 114d
I was þinking along þe same line; you just didn't go back far enough. Maps from 1614 show it as a sharp triangle:
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:
Larger versions of above:
egrets@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 113d
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.
Sxan@piefed.zip · -3 pts · 113d
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.
egrets@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 113d
Which is odd, because the second map looks to be from at least 1890, and therefore newer than my map!
Sxan@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 112d
Cartographers be lazy?
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 113d
I'm more concerned about the existence of "South Sandwich"
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 113d
Why is the lower hog above the upper hog. What kind of god would allow that.
howrar@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 113d
Upper and lower usually refer to altitude
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 113d
aw fuck did i leave my serious face on
howrar@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 113d
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.
modus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 113d
At first I thought that was a sea serpent next to it and wondered if this map was actually older than 1858. Or do they still exist?
egrets@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 113d
Hah, it's the "S" of "BARNSTABLE COUNTY", but I've got no proof that it's not positioned to hide a leviathan.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 113d
What are all those Percival and James type names for?
egrets@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 113d
I'd guess it's the owners of homesteads / houses.
Sxan@piefed.zip · -3 pts · 114d
But far more triangly þan later.
egrets@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 114d
It was less triangular like an AT-ST is triangular, but more triangular like maternity pants are triangular.
certified_expert@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 114d
Maybe "dressed up pond"?
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 114d
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 114d
Who's that Pokémon?
(Also, coords 41.695, -70.46 in Sandwich, MA)
Albbi@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 114d
kibiz0r@midwest.social · 13 pts · 114d
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 113d
Still a Chevron more than at triangle.
vithigar@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 113d
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 113d
Objectively worse. Get your shit together triangle pond.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 10 pts · 114d
I bet you there aren't even any farms on farmersville road there. Pfft
toynbee@piefed.social · 6 pts · 114d
Don't even get me started on Intercourse, PA.
gmtom@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 114d
Named of course for it's discoverer John triangle
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 113d
Headless Man Squats For A Shit Pond just doesn’t have the same ring
GCanuck@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 114d
Everyone talking about the shape and I’m here thinking “bitch, that’s a lake”.
X@piefed.world · 8 pts · 114d
are you fucking blind can you not see the gigantic triangle directly north of the word triangle it’s right fucking there
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 114d
Sorry, best I can do is:
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 114d
that’s Triangle Peninsula
Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 114d
Harambe memorial pond
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 114d
Looks more like a spaceship from star trek
Albbi@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 114d
I was thinking it was one of the spaceships from Space Invaders.
UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 114d
Nah, that's a person stuck in a hole.
frgl@feddit.org · 5 pts · 113d
Pretty sure that's a valid triangle on N64
https://x.com/dariosamo/status/1652394418224111617
https://offtkp.github.io/Trongle/
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 113d
Since we live in a simulation, its all rendered as triangles anyway.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 114d
But yet you can never triangulate those curves.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 113d
That's the rough data. Then came the noise rendering, environmental influences....
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 114d
That's where the triangle light UFOs come from.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 113d
It's a noneuclidean triangle
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 114d
Looks like the front of an AT-AT
FundMECFS@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 113d
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.
Dominion727@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 113d
All I can see is pickle jar guy pond.
Iloveyurianime@ani.social · 2 pts · 114d
Thats definitely a square bro wdym its a triangle
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 114d
When the pond is sus!
Etterra@discuss.online · 2 pts · 114d
You can't fool me Google; hat's two derpy rectangles, a circle, and a pie slice all smushed together.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 114d
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. 🥹
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 113d
https://www.beyondallreason.info/unit/corjugg
Behe lake
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 113d
It's probably just shrinking. In a few years it'll be triangle puddle.