Submitted 7 hours ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to [deleted]
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I propose Antartica adopt an irrational approach.
Decide on Antartica North as a basis, clearly this should be Antartica’s tentacle where it reaches out trying to touch the South American tentacle.
Multiply North by the square root of -1 a.k.a. i.
I propose as international law that real estate/territory claims all have to be solely defined in terms of trignometric functions on Antartica.
It would also hopefully draw irrationality from different continents acting as an irrationality sink.
… It’s free real imaginary estate.
Just go north, and you’ll get to the coast.
You can’t have two places named north. Computers can’t handle shit like that.
They also said computers can’t handle dates beyond 1999.
They were right about that btw. If a fix wasn’t rolled out, we’d probably be living in a different world right now.
I’m a big fan of The North East ;)
Deme@sopuli.xyz 32 minutes ago
I asked a researcher on mastodon working at the Amundsen-Scott Station last year about how they manage navigation there and they have their own grid system over there, aligned with the prime meridian.