I honestly didn't know the magnetic pole was underground. I just assumed it was more of an axis than a point. Neat.
The one that gets to me is big maps. Big maps made when people were limited in elevation to buildings made of stone, tall trees, and maybe mountains, if the weather was clear. So we built maps of the world when any one given person could probably see something like twenty miles at a given time, under good conditions, without trees in the way. We crossed oceans like that. Seriously, humans found Hawaii, based on generations of people in tiny little boats saying 'Hey, I wonder what's thataway."
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Date: 2014-08-25 03:08 pm (UTC)The one that gets to me is big maps. Big maps made when people were limited in elevation to buildings made of stone, tall trees, and maybe mountains, if the weather was clear. So we built maps of the world when any one given person could probably see something like twenty miles at a given time, under good conditions, without trees in the way. We crossed oceans like that. Seriously, humans found Hawaii, based on generations of people in tiny little boats saying 'Hey, I wonder what's thataway."