Not on my map! NZ is an Australian conspiracy!
NZ is fucking huge. Look at how tiny Africa is, as seen right below in the picture.
Do you see how the mountain range coming up from the south starts to splay out and there’s a giant lake?
In 1999, to the south of that lake where that large valley is, Viggo Mortensen broke his toe kicking a helmet in Lord of the Rings.
Whoa, what a cool fun fact! I better bring that one up next time I’m watching LOTR with people.
I’m headed there this summer and have asked the NZ Tourism Board if I can leave a plaque on the hill.
In memoriam: Viggo Mortensen’s unbroken toe. You may not have bested that orc helmet, but you didn’t let that ruin the take.
Go visit the South Island and virtually every local has stories about the filming of LotR. A huge number of them were hired by the production in one way or another, from being extras to providing horses to helping dress all those extras & horses to catering all those people etc.
I love this totally sincere reply to a completely insincere joke. I would love to visit New Zealand for a lot of reasons.
It was definitely a bucket list sort of thing for me. The trip from the northeast US absolutely sucks (20+ hours in the air) but for 3 weeks there it was worth it.
Doesn’t look very new. Are you sure this isn’t old Zealand?
Maybe OP mistook it for New Old Zealand.
I wonder what kind of lens they use to make the horizon curve like that…
/s obviously
I literally got to be a part of a group that got to chat with astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson on the ISS yesterday afternoon. It was a really cool, candid, behind the scenes experience as she did a little mini-tour through the space station.
The craziest part for me was when she took her phone to the observatory and we watched the sun vanish behind the horizon of the earth. It happened so quickly and so brilliantly that it took my breath away and nearly brought me to tears. It was spectacular.
It was almost two hours with lengthy breaks as we lost contact a few times. But what an amazing experience.
How does an opportunity like that present itself?
It’s very much a factor of right place and right time.
For their mental health, the astronauts are required to have calls with people down here. Tracy is an acquaintance of someone my wife knows, so when the call was set up, we made the invite list.
We have no personal connection, we just managed to sit in the room while others talked. Tracy did put out an offer to come visit her at Johnson when she’s back, so you better believe we’ll follow up on that.
Lol nice try, I’m not going to get fooled into believing New Zealand is real
New Zealand = Not real
Ohio = Not real
=>
New Zealand = Ohio
Unimpeachable logic!
Ohio is for lovers; New Zealand is for life.
Come back to Texas!
Or else!
You forgot the non-existant city Bielefeld.
New Zealand, Missouri and the female orgasm are all myths spread by the CIA to control the population.
Woh woh woh. How did you get the earth to curve like that! It’s supposed to be flat!
Post this to every flat earth group everywhere
Is there a word for a fear/discomfort when seeing those and similar mountain patterns from space?
Spaceophobia
No, that’s the feat of space itself, starts, etc. I love starts, galaxies, planets, asteroids and nebulae.
Well he didn’t say startophobia or planetophobia. Space is the emptiness between all that.
I’m not afraid of space tho.
Lovely weather just about everywhere except my home town lol.
Kinda looks like Ohio…
Bruh, have you ever seen Ohio?
Christ…
It looks so much bigger in person.
Very pretty!
