Comment on what is north?
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 11 months agolol what else did they mean by hemisphere? is there an eastern and a western hemisphere?
Comment on what is north?
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 11 months agolol what else did they mean by hemisphere? is there an eastern and a western hemisphere?
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes! Divided by the prime meridian and the antimeridian. That’s a good question, though.
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 11 months 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 11 months ago
It is arbitrary! England declared themselves the center of the world, and everyone else went with it.