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4127335 No.4127335 [Reply] [Original]

What determines what is north, south, east, and west if the earth is a sphere?

>> No.4127338

>>4127335
Convention.

>> No.4127343

>>4127335

Magnetic north and south pole? It changes though, we have a conventional north and south pole.

>> No.4127344

magnets. no kidding.

>> No.4127345

>>4127335

Earth isnt a Sphere.
Your inquiry, as it is now, is invalid.

>> No.4127347 [DELETED] 

>>4127345
Not him but fine. It's an oblate spheroid so what determines the directions. No answer. Asshole.

>> No.4127353

Alright, so we have a magnetic south and north pole. Does this mean east and west are man-made concepts?

>> No.4127357

>>4127345
How is it not a sphere?

>> No.4127359

>>4127353
>implying there are words that are not man-made concepts

>> No.4127362

ROTATION, YOU FUCKING IDIOTS.

>> No.4127363

>>4127335
sailors

>>4127357
its an ellipsoid.

>> No.4127364

>>4127359
Touche.

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4127370

oh btw, any ideas what we gonna do when magnetic poles switch? just carry on as though nothing happened, or ave a sturdy decades long debate for the fun of it?

>> No.4127394

>>4127363
>not oblate spheroid

>> No.4127414

Is it possible that the people who first decided which was north/south or, up/down could've got it the opposite way to how we have it?
All maps would be the wrong way up, as would be our entire perspective of the universe; flipped upside-down