Was it the yellow pixels or red pixels that sucked Amelia Earhart into the 9th Dimension inside the moon?
I have no idea what you’re on about here. In a real-world sense, yes, a point in the northern hemisphere would naturally have its antipode/opposite/whatever you want to call it in the southern hemisphere. I would think that most people, given a globe and a spot and asked what’s opposite it would do exactly what we’re saying: finding the antipode.
This isn’t some kind of nerdy trolling nitpicking. I mean, you haven’t tried that in grammar school, when you find out what’s on the opposite side of where you live? It involves the imaginary “digging through the earth” scenario like in the cartoons, except that you don’t end up in China (like in the cartoons), but usually in the middle of the ocean (if you’re located in the US.) I mean, there’s even an App for that called “Opposite.”
Antipodes made easy!
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Find a globe of the earth.
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Take a knitting needle and shove it through your point of interest.
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Make sure the knitting needle intersects, exactly, through the epicenter of the sphere.
It can then emerge through only one point on the globe, it’s opposite, or antipode.
I’m not sure how the idea of an opposite, symmetrically, geographically, and geometrically speaking, can be any other way—other than arbitrarily defined.
Why don’t ducks quacks echo? Why??
Has the raining of fish, frogs, etc. ever been sufficiently explained?
There’s also this browser based Google map tool which shows side-by-side maps. Especially useful if you want to make an earth sandwich.
Note how cleverly I left the apostrophe as an exercise for learners of English as a second language.
Fuck a duck, how does it work?
I do not think there is a scientific explanation for Geocities sites in 2012.
First, you get down.
Then, you get funky.
For that matter, no one has ever explained why it rains where no man goeth!
Or in 1997, for that matter. My god, the horror!
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~~ What NASA doesn’t want you to know ~~
[SIZE=“6”]The Moon is Hollow
by Ned Dubbins, former NASA Custodial Engineer[/SIZE]
Blah blah blah, the astronauts said there was ringing, Blah blah blah, inexplicably went on for, like, a million times longer than scientists could explain, Blah blah blah, ALL CAPS. Blah blah blah, other things taken out of context and reworded due to misunderstanding basic physics and/or I’m a disingenuous douche, but hey, lies are more interesting than reality (which you can easily look into yourself, but then I’ll call you close-minded like they are). Anomalies, blah blah blah, pixels.
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Anomalies are the bugaboo of science-ists.
stares in awe
It’s like I’m THERE! Whether “there” is Geocities, Angelfire or Tripod, I’m not sure.
Try this: It's Raining Frogs and Fish
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Go back and read any story you’ve ever seen about frogs and fish falling from the sky, this time allowing for the possibility that the animals were already naturally on the ground when the witnesses first discovered them. Allow for the possibility that some elements of the report, like the falling part, could be based originally on witness conjecture or assumption. What you’ll find is that a tale so perplexing that the only possible explanation seemed to be a paranormal event, has now become a very cool example of rare animal behavior that most people don’t even know about.
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True, Brian’s explanation is not 100% conclusively proven, and if you’re determined that raining fish is paranormal, you can pick it apart. But it fits the observations and makes perfect sense. A reasonable application of critical thinking would be to tentatively accept it, until some solid evidence comes to light that doesn’t fit with it.
First posted by Encyclopedia Britannica:
Waterspouts are just, basically, tornadoes over water. There is noting especially mysterious about them. The explanation seems credible.
cmyk, you forgot the random bold, italics, and underlines peppered through the text, the <blink> tags, and the broken identity specifier&%ampers;;s.
I wanted to, but I was afraid of breaking something important on the Internet.
well done, boys. Now go tell Mom what u want for dinner, & back to ‘World of Warcraft’. I hear Mila Kunis has some hacked pictures from her phone too, just published.
SO, we ain’t really interested in unexplained mysteries . Still, mediocre flaming skillz.