We decided on North long before we discovered magnetism. But the magnet poles of the earth flip from time to time so ehhh.
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bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 1 week ago
While we’re at it, is a compass needle’s North pole actually a South so that it points North? Or is the Earth’s North pole actually South so that the needle’s North pole points to it?
(I know that I could look this up, I just want to confuse people.)
Siethron@lemmy.world 1 week ago
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
But that’s by design, while this is a convention problem