It irritates me when I see a flat map mapped incorrectly onto a globe.
It seems to be a symptom of people having grown up with Mercator maps,
and never learning the correct relative sizes of land masses.  I've seen
this done several times in professional settings, and I don't know
whether the CGI people actually don't know what a globe is supposed to
look like, or that they *do* know, and they're deliberately doing it
wrong because they know that their *audience* doesn't know what a globe
is supposed to look like.

But I'm sure that in Chris Bartlett's case, it was the former.

About 10 years ago, I left a feedback comment with the correct mapping
on the Object Collection website, but by then Chris was no longer around
to see it.  I finally decided to rectify the error myself:

  https://github.com/CousinRicky/POV-TheEarth

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