+155 Unless you're travelling exactly along a latitude, no matter whichever direction you're going, you'll get to Antarctica. amirite?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

On a latitude, you can walk straight and go in circles at the same time.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Excepting the equator, latitude lines are curved.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Latitudes are parallel to the equator

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Let's just think abut this for a moment, shall we? What about the line of latitude that's a hundred yards from the pole? Do you think that's a staight line? And the one two hundred yards away? They're curved aren't they? All the way until you hit the equator. The only straight lines on the Earth's surface are great-circle routes, and the only latitude line that is a great-circle is the equator.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

They are just as curved or as straight as the equator, that's my initial point

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You could walk in a straight line without ever getting to Antarctica. You'd just loop around the earth and end back where you started.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Unless that straight line coincides with a latitude, no, you can't.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Basketballs have straight lines around them that don't coincide to a latitude line...

by Anonymous 1 year ago

This implies the basketball doesn't have a latitude line it does have one it's just not fixed like the earth's so it depends on how it's being held relative to the ground or it's spin

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You can draw any number of straight "circles" that aren't latitudes and don't cross Antarctica. Every plane that intersects a sphere is a straight line on the sphere.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

With enough distance and a large number of circles, you can technically reach Antarctica

by Anonymous 1 year ago

That's just not true. For most places in the world, if you were to travel in a random non-latitude direction until you get back to where you started, the chance you intersect Antarctica is actually fairly low.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You can walk "diagonally" and miss Antarctica before ending up back where you started. It becomes easier the closer you are to horizontal, but it is not a certainty.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I think you mean: unless you travel along a latitude, if you travel on a fixed magnetic bearing you will get to one of the poles

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You'll probably get killed and stuffed with drugs before you reach Antarctica to be fair

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Don't get fooled by the Mercator projection. Antarctica is not really that big and can be missed with a large percentage of planes cut through earth

by Anonymous 1 year ago