I used to ask my dad where we were on car trips.
“Directly above the center of the earth.” Thanks asshole.
That’s a good one *takes notes
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.
*Directly above the gravitational center of mass of the Earth
Sheeeeesh, happy?
I should’ve put “ackshually” and /s
I guess I should have too, I was playing along with you :P
Here I’ll help, it’s also south of the North Pole.
And west of the equator.
Top left corner is the Weddell Sea so we know it’s somewhere in that direction
I can specify: south of the arctic.
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.
Near the British Empire then.
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.
asshat with a scuba tank
3000 meters beneath the Weddell Sea
Good luck
Someone will try it don’t worry.
That or some billionaire will send private subs down to it.
From what I’ve read, billionaires need more private sub trips
Better north of antarctica than north of arctica.
It’s like a basic reading comprehension thing…
The ship is located in the Weddell Sea, which is north of Antarctica.
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.
Or south from the Equator line.
I appreciate the “perhaps”, like, the headline qualifies how annoyed they are at imprecision.
I’ll have to use that one.
Narrowed it down to a single planet.
narrowed it down to 95% of a single planet!
If you exclude the landmass you narrowed it down to ~70% of a single planet.
What a shame. A wreck on another planet would have been way more interesting
I assume they mean “just north of Antarctica”. But really it could be any body of water on the planet it could fit in.
“Just north of Antarctica” is still not helpful at all though. Even a hemisphere would narrow it down more.
Just north of Antarctica in the southern hemisphere.
Listen here you little shit.
lol what else did they mean by hemisphere? is there an eastern and a western hemisphere?
The peninsula is considered the north side. So the location of the shipwreck is south of South America.
the peninsula is considered the north side
look at the peninsula
it’s on the west side
You’re looking at it from the South Pole, so there is no West, only North.
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.
Hey it’s just south of Orkney. Small world.
It literally says beneath the Weddell sea.
But where is the Weddell sea?
Just north of Antarctica
It’s wrapped around by that peninsula that juts toward(ish) the Andes.
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?]
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.
The location is being kept secret to prevent looting.
Yeah, the Weddell Sea is basically in Antarctica
Ah. South of the Arctic.
Yeah even “near Antarctica” narrows it down to the South Atlantic, South Pacific and South Indian oceans.
if we suppose “just” means near in this context, “Just north of antarctica” and “Near antarctica” has exactly the same meaning.
It still narrows it down to about 1/8th of the Earth’s surface area.
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.
I looked it up. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XdWlWUUYejc
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.
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!
