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To: theDentist

Soooo.....

Which way WOULD be North?


16 posted on 07/12/2004 4:12:25 PM PDT by baltodog (There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who can't.)
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To: baltodog
Which way WOULD be North?

Up. Always...up.

39 posted on 07/12/2004 4:21:09 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (May the wings of Liberty never lose so much as a feather.)
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To: baltodog
Which way WOULD be North?

Don't you be talking about my friend Ollie like that! He's straight!

79 posted on 07/12/2004 4:49:22 PM PDT by lancer (If you are not with us, you are against us!)
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To: baltodog

And does that mean that those of us in the U.S. and Canada would suddenly become South Americans?


84 posted on 07/12/2004 4:51:00 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: baltodog

Geographic North would be the same. Magnetic North would change to South but the process goes back and forth many times over a long period in terms of human lives. The field also reverses in some parts before other parts of the world. Magnetic navigation would be very tricky for a long time. But that's where GPS satellites can take up the slack.


114 posted on 07/12/2004 5:33:26 PM PDT by LenS
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To: baltodog

Thataway....


126 posted on 07/12/2004 5:52:27 PM PDT by theDentist ("John Kerry changes positions more often than a Nevada prostitute.")
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To: baltodog
Which way WOULD be North?

Magnetic north, by current convention, would be geographic south. "will be" would be more appropriate than "would be" because the poles have reversed before and likely will do so again. When is the question.

206 posted on 07/12/2004 10:12:58 PM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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