InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 months ago[Not the Onion] The looming Eurasian menacehexbear.netimagemessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up153arrow-down1image[Not the Onion] The looming Eurasian menacehexbear.netInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square47fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMurple_27@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoUp is North, because North is at the top of a compass, and is the direction a compass will always point towards.
minus-squarexj9 [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoAntarctica is clearly earth’s hat. The compass has nothing to do with it.
minus-squareMurple_27@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoI prefer this explanation, tbh.
minus-squareaddieu [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoThe earliest known compasses humans used were called “zhi nan zhen,” meaning “south pointing needle.” It pointed south. European navigators using the technology inverted this so it would point north.
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Up is North, because North is at the top of a compass, and is the direction a compass will always point towards.
Antarctica is clearly earth’s hat. The compass has nothing to do with it.
I prefer this explanation, tbh.
The earliest known compasses humans used were called “zhi nan zhen,” meaning “south pointing needle.” It pointed south. European navigators using the technology inverted this so it would point north.