Comment on what is north?
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agolol what else did they mean by hemisphere? is there an eastern and a western hemisphere?
Comment on what is north?
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agolol what else did they mean by hemisphere? is there an eastern and a western hemisphere?
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes! Divided by the prime meridian and the antimeridian. That’s a good question, though.
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
That feels wrong though. First of all the prime meridian is completely arbitrary (as opposed to the equator), and in some parts of the world like Japan and New Zealand the “western” hemisphere would actually be closest towards the east.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 3 weeks ago
It is arbitrary! England declared themselves the center of the world, and everyone else went with it.