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  • LotrOrc@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzwhat is north?
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    6 months ago

    Yes i get that

    But we also live on an oblong sphere, which is 3 dimensional

    The axes of north and south, east and west, are two dimensional

    If you have a ship that can sail through anything, with infinite provisions, and you sail past the south pole, you will end up going north. That doesnt suddenly discount the fact that up until a certain point, you were going south. If the sea is immediately around the island, which it is, and is on the opposite side of the exact point of the axis, i wouldnt call that a misnomer.

    When you are in that area you’re essentially sailing south until you’re sailing north. If we came at it from the other side it would likely be called something different.



  • LotrOrc@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzwhat is north?
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    6 months ago

    The map he linked literally shows the Ross sea south of Antarctica.

    Also since its earth is spherical and its near the south pole you can really go any direction and find a sea… that just becomes a matter of perspective.

    In this case, specifically, the wedell sea is to the north of the continent













  • LotrOrc@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzKids
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    1 year ago

    First off, weird to point out that they’re “age appropriate”

    If your kid reads above the age level and understands it that’s generally a good thing

    Number two I don’t get why this is such a weird concept on how to explain things to a child. Seems pretty normal and “age appropriate”




  • Pretty sure Persia, India, and China all had great empires and knowledge well before Christianity was even a little sperm cell in the Judean god’s sac but sure

    Which btw most of foundational mathematics was created in the Eastern and Persian world, not by Christians. And it was from there that the Greeks got their knowledge. To the point Pythagoras was not the one who created or realized the Pythagorean theorem, it was just named after him because of the western world. And that was a couple thousand years before Christianity existed.

    The literal word Algebra comes from Al Jebra and his works.

    So yeah you’re just racist and misinformed.