| 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?

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

Sorry, but you're wrong.  Until you step off of the northern geographic
pole, every cardinal direction is south.  After that, as long as you keep
going in a straight line, you're still going due south.  No east or west
unless you didn't line up right before you left the north pole.

BTW, the sun either wouldn't set or wouldn't rise.  The north pole has 6
month long days, don't'cha know.  The only exception is on one of the
equinoxes, those are normal days at the pole.

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