Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 5 days agoJapan is called the land of the rising sun, but New Zealand is further East than Japanmessage-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down14
arrow-up16arrow-down1message-squareJapan is called the land of the rising sun, but New Zealand is further East than JapanCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareJackGreenEarth@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·5 days agoThere’s always something further east, the Earth is a sphere. California is to the east of new Zealand. The IDL is arbitrary
minus-squareVirgilMastercard@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 days agoJackGreenEarth says the earth is a sphere, the debate is settled
minus-squareremon@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoWell, he’s wrong. It’s an oblate spheroid.
minus-squareJackGreenEarth@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoActually, it’s a bumpy oblate spheroid. And I’m not a ‘he’
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoNothing wrong with being a bumpy oblate spheroid. Some of my best friends are bumpy oblate spheroids.
minus-squaremoopet@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoThere’d still be an East from any point no matter what convex shape it was.
There’s always something further east, the Earth is a sphere. California is to the east of new Zealand. The IDL is arbitrary
JackGreenEarth says the earth is a sphere, the debate is settled
Well, he’s wrong. It’s an oblate spheroid.
Actually, it’s a bumpy oblate spheroid. And I’m not a ‘he’
Nothing wrong with being a bumpy oblate spheroid. Some of my best friends are bumpy oblate spheroids.
There’d still be an East from any point no matter what convex shape it was.