The looming Eurasian menace
The looming Eurasian menace
It's a WaPo article that's a 12 minute read - https://archive.ph/C6mna
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Why is it upside down?
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because wh*tes decided which way was right side up
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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.
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Antarctica is clearly earth's hat. The compass has nothing to do with it.
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I prefer this explanation, tbh.
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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.
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