• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Well yeah, they’re all old and forgetful. They could come West and be younger but they don’t care. They’re old.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      9 days ago

      If you go to the North pole and run around in circles you can easily get years into the past.

      • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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        That’s a common misconception. Magnetic north declination from geographic north increases to its maximum as one approaches the geographic north pole (by definition). Yes, technically, your geographic time may reverse by years, but the increase in magnetic time, being equal and opposite, will effectively cancel out that effect.

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          This kind of troll science is the caliber that makes actual conspiracies form when stupid people read it.

        • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
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          Sure but you forgot one thing. Gravity.

          Gravity pulls down, so when you go towards the North Pole you are actually getting further from gravity and that lesser force still pushes the entire effect into the positive. If you tried this in the south pole you would actually get older!

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            It would if the earth were a perfect sphere, but in reality, it’s an oblate sphereoid. This means that an observer actually gets closer to the center of gravity as one approaches a pole.

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              Maybe. But everyone knows gravity pulls “down” and not “towards the center of the oblate spheroid” (nonsense word made up by “”“mathematicians”“” to make us look like fools)

      • Lemmisaur@lemmy.zip
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        Some say that if you go to the international date line and climb over the map’s edge, you’ll find the secret fifth Carmel Tunnel that will take you straight to Big Math HQ. They won’t let you go there easily.

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            6 days ago

            I just need to look up a few Bible quotes out of context, make up a few math equations, put up a not at all suspicious link and an oddly specific location in the middle of nowhere, and then I’m all set.

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                6 days ago

                Just got the Bible verses of 1:6 and 1:7 for a source of one, I also just drew a map. Big Math Co. is in there somewhere.

                I have not decided on a title for myself yet, although I’m sure I can just take a name from the Bible again. Now I just need to get all those people…