This map will really make you think where do we go from here?

[ashling]

We Put 700 Red Dots On A Map

http://www.clickhole.com/article/we-put-700-red-dots-map-947

The dots don’t represent anything in particular, nor is their number and placement indicative of any kind of data. But when you’re looking at them, all spread out on a map of the United States like that—it’s hard not to be a little blown away.

Seven hundred of them. Seven hundred dots. That’s more than 500 dots—well on the way to 1,000. That could represent 700 people, or crime scenes, or cities. Or something that happens in this country every 20 seconds. These dots could potentially be anything—they’re red dots, so they could definitely mean something bad.

Whatever they might be, there’s no unseeing these dots.

We as a nation have problems that we must face head-on. Visualizing them might be the first step in tackling them before it’s too late. Now that we have such a potent image of 700 red dots on a map, only one question remains: Where do we go from here?

[tk2kewl]

1. as a guy who works to put dots on maps...

k&r

[ashling]

2. so you are a map dotter?

That's really a thing?

[tk2kewl]

3. you betcha

[ashling]

4. well, put one on there for me

[GreydeeThos]

10. You are admitting to all here that:

You are a speckling cartographer inscribing sequins to the guide charts.

Tell me, do you Polka?

[orleans]

5. thank you. i found this fascinating. i would also appreciate seeing a global map with

700 or so red dots. i believe that would make me feel safer just knowing they can be spread out globally rather than contained within this country.

[ashling]

6. The US has less than 1/10 of the world's landmass (this is not a fact based post)

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but we have a majority of the red dots. What's up with that?

[csziggy]

7. Are we SURE there are 700 dots?

Maybe there are 701! Or worse, 699.

And why are there dots for the Aleutians and the smaller Hawaiian islands and not for the Florida Keys? What happened to Mackinaw Island, Guam, Puerto Rico? Don't they deserve dots.

OMG - it's DOTGATE! (Dotghazi?)

Wait - has anyone told the cats about all those red dots?

[Art_from_Ark]

8. And what about the American Virgin Islands,

American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands? I'm sure they don't want to be left out!

[lastlib]

9. The truth is out there somewhere........

.....probably covered up by red dots................

[Calista241]

11. Fuckin Red Dots!!!

[Glorfindel]

12. I sense a terrible pattern. Notice how thickly dotted northern New England is

and how sparse the dots are in Arkansas, southern Missouri, and eastern Oklahoma. Something ominous is represented by these red dots. I'm moving to an undisclosed location in the eastern Caribbean until this mystery is solved.

[47of74]

13. Do not press the red dot.

Really, don't do it.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/do-not-press-the-red-button/id317885341?mt=8