I found something cool!!

[BobKermanStuckAtDuna]

so i was in orbit and noticed some of the land forms on kerbin look like countrys, continents and states!!

proof: https://ibb.co/FBzSXwm

 

 

[Yellowburn10]

This isn't anything that's exactly new, however some of the landmasses identified here I haven't noticed looking like that before. Although I'd argue about the one labeled Asia. 

[BobKermanStuckAtDuna]

2 hours ago, Yellowburn10 said:

This isn't anything that's exactly new, however some of the landmasses identified here I haven't noticed looking like that before. Although I'd argue about the one labeled Asia. 

i put asia cus i saw india and also russia both countrys are in asia so

[king of nowhere]

asia does not resemble the real one, india is all wrong.

i wonder if it's an intentional easter egg or something random. draw enough random figures, and some of them are bound to resemble other things

[Superfluous J]

IIRC the bulk of Kerbin is the default 0 seed in some generic global landscape program.

So yes it's random and at least partially us seeing things that aren't intentional.

But yeah that's Africa.

Edited February 10, 2022 by Superfluous J

[Randazzo]

Close enough to tickle the human brain pattern fetish, different enough to be kerbin

[DunaManiac]

On 2/7/2022 at 8:07 PM, BobKermanStuckAtDuna said:

so i was in orbit and noticed some of the land forms on kerbin look like countrys, continents and states!!

proof: https://ibb.co/FBzSXwm

 

 

Most likely it's a coincidence, as Kerbin is actually unoriginal. It's actually a reversed version with some tweaks of the libnoise example planet, as seen below.

So most likely it's just a case of pareidolia, (although what you saw as Asia and Texas are a stretch in my opinion) our brains recognizing patterns where they aren't there. I mean, I get the same thing while on Laythe.

Edited February 9, 2022 by DunaManiac