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what is north?

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what is north?

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    I used to ask my dad where we were on car trips.

    “Directly above the center of the earth.” Thanks asshole.

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      That’s a good one *takes notes

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      The earth is a bit lumpy, so chances are that was a lie and he was actually lost and couldn’t figure out how to get everybody else out of the car so he could go on a trip to get milk.

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        *Directly above the gravitational center of mass of the Earth

        Sheeeeesh, happy?

        • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world
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          I should’ve put “ackshually” and /s

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            I guess I should have too, I was playing along with you :P

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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    Here I’ll help, it’s also south of the North Pole.

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      And west of the equator.

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      Top left corner is the Weddell Sea so we know it’s somewhere in that direction

  • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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    I can specify: south of the arctic.

  • Bluewing@discuss.online
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    I don’t know where his ship is, but the man had great taste in blended Scotch! If you run across a bottle of Shackleton in your local liqueur store, buy it.

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    Near the British Empire then.

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    I’m good with it. Keep it somewhat hidden. Once the position gets out, every asshat with a scuba tank and calls themselves “an explorer” will ruin the place.

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      asshat with a scuba tank

      3000 meters beneath the Weddell Sea

      Good luck

      • Bieren@lemmy.world
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        Someone will try it don’t worry.

        That or some billionaire will send private subs down to it.

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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          From what I’ve read, billionaires need more private sub trips

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    Better north of antarctica than north of arctica.

  • AnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtf
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    It’s like a basic reading comprehension thing…

    The ship is located in the Weddell Sea, which is north of Antarctica.

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      they’re saying everywhere outside Antarctica is north of Antarctica, so that doesn’t add anything. it’s deliberately obtuse for humorous effect. basic joke comprehension should be a thing.

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      Or south from the Equator line.

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    I appreciate the “perhaps”, like, the headline qualifies how annoyed they are at imprecision.

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    I’ll have to use that one.

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    Narrowed it down to a single planet.

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      narrowed it down to 95% of a single planet!

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        If you exclude the landmass you narrowed it down to ~70% of a single planet.

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      What a shame. A wreck on another planet would have been way more interesting

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    I assume they mean “just north of Antarctica”. But really it could be any body of water on the planet it could fit in.

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      “Just north of Antarctica” is still not helpful at all though. Even a hemisphere would narrow it down more.

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        Just north of Antarctica in the southern hemisphere.

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          Listen here you little shit.

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            lol what else did they mean by hemisphere? is there an eastern and a western hemisphere?

      • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
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        The peninsula is considered the north side. So the location of the shipwreck is south of South America.

        • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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          the peninsula is considered the north side

          look at the peninsula

          it’s on the west side

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          • Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            You’re looking at it from the South Pole, so there is no West, only North.

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              Well sure, and I get that, but the map we’re looking at clearly has a W-E line marked, presumably on the prime meridian. It’s pretty westerly in that regard which seems like a pretty sensible perspective to me on how to navigate at the south pole.

              If you handed me this map and told me to go North I would go to Dronning Maud Land.

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          Hey it’s just south of Orkney. Small world.

      • then_three_more@lemmy.world
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        It literally says beneath the Weddell sea.

        • anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works
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          But where is the Weddell sea?

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            Just north of Antarctica

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            It’s wrapped around by that peninsula that juts toward(ish) the Andes.

      • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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        Yeah… probably “between Antarctica and the South Atlantic” would be the best reference here.

        [Now it’s probably not the time for me to ramble on how the Atlantic should be considered two oceans instead of one, right?]

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        It is helpful in that it gives an idea of what sort of waters it sank at. Being close to Antarctica my mind immediately goes to heavy seas with cold weather.

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        The location is being kept secret to prevent looting.

    • wander1236@sh.itjust.works
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      Yeah, the Weddell Sea is basically in Antarctica

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        Ah. South of the Arctic.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      Yeah even “near Antarctica” narrows it down to the South Atlantic, South Pacific and South Indian oceans.

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        if we suppose “just” means near in this context, “Just north of antarctica” and “Near antarctica” has exactly the same meaning.

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          It still narrows it down to about 1/8th of the Earth’s surface area.

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    Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

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      Fun fact: I have never actually seen a clip of this with audio, so I always give this guy the Skeletor voice in my head and I just realized he probably doesn’t sound like that.

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        I looked it up. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XdWlWUUYejc

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        I might have seen it once a long time ago, but I don’t remember what he sounded like, so I can’t confirm that for you.

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    If “north of Antarctica” isn’t enough to narrow it down, here are a few tips: it’s also south of the Arctic, further from the Sun than Venus, closer to the Sun than Mars. Now it’s easy to find it!

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