I'm going to postulate a bold and unintuitive hypothesis: the world has more southfacing coastline than northfacing coastline (in total distance). Do you agree or disagree? Discuss!
-
OK. I need to revue how projections works in convexe surface, but I believe that the difference brought by South pole is bigger than the delta brought by all the south-point facing triangles we have in our continents
What if we placed many random (position, radius) circular land masses on the surface of the earth? Those in the northern hemisphere would have a greater proportion of their coast facing south than north (and vice versa). Then we just place more of them in the north.
-
-
I don't know how accurate a model "many random dots" are for Earth's landmasses, but we do at least have more landmass in the north.
-
even if à mass is mainly in an hemispheres, the shape is important. Look at South America : its in South hemisphere, but the main part of its coastline are south facing. That being said, most continental mass seemed to look likes South America...
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.