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• elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  North-Antartica is doughnut shaped

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• Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I asked a researcher on mastodon working at the Amundsen-Scott Station last year about how they manage navigation there and they have their own grid system over there, aligned with the prime meridian.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So they dont use polar coordinates? That’s a shame

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• bryndos@fedia.io ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don't tell me this is an opportunity to apply polar coordinates - that'd be far too much of a coincidence.

  Fortunately down there they should be safe from any polar bearings.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You sleigh me, but this is snow joking matter.

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• Juice@midwest.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why does this picture of Australia have North written all over it?

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Here’s your hint, the Earth is round.

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    • Juice@midwest.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Shits crazy

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I propose Antartica adopt an irrational approach.

  Decide on Antartica North as a basis, clearly this should be Antartica’s tentacle where it reaches out trying to touch the South American tentacle.

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  Multiply North by the square root of -1 a.k.a. i.

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  I propose as international law that real estate/territory claims all have to be solely defined in terms of trignometric functions on Antartica.

  It would also hopefully draw irrationality from different continents acting as an irrationality sink.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    … It’s free real imaginary estate.

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    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But we were only supposed to have three estates!

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• Busyvar@jlai.lu ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Better check my compass…

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Just go north, and you’ll get to the coast.

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• JoShmoe@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You can’t have two places named north. Computers can’t handle shit like that.

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  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They also said computers can’t handle dates beyond 1999.

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    • JoShmoe@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They were right about that btw. If a fix wasn’t rolled out, we’d probably be living in a different world right now.

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• daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wanna live there

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• bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To be fair, you can move in any compass direction from any point on Antarctica - except for the south pole

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel like east and west are more pertinent directions

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  • dangrousperson@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the joke is that all lines of longitude meet at the poles. So everything is north of the south pole. There doesn’t exist a east, west, or south of the south pole

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• troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m a big fan of The North East ;)

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