On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Marisa Price wrote:

On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Neill Walker wrote:

Kenneth DeSoto wrote:

| I hate to correct you, but you can walk from the North pole to Alaska,
while
| it's still frozen!  It thaws for only a short period of time, then it
| freezes again.  BTW, it's southwest.....

Sorry, Kenneth, it's south.  If you're standing on the North Pole, the
only direction you can walk is south.  There is no east or west at the
North Pole.

WHAT!! Just because you are at the northernmost point of the earth does 
not mean that the cardinal directions disappear. I mean, I see you pont 
that no matter which direction you walked on the EARTH that you would be 
going south, but east and west still exist. I mean, say you looked out at 
the sun--- it would still set to the west. 

right?

wrong.  It sets in the south, since that is the only direction you can 
go (following the curvature of the earth).  If you still say the sun sets 
in the west, show me which direction is west at the north pole ;)

or is all I learned in trig, geometry, and physics wrong ?

Oh, some of it is correct.

                                  ~~~~
                The Chaotic Trickster - kergma@sv.net.au

%% Anyone for visiting the East and West poles? ;)