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[-] grue@lemmy.world 57 points 5 days ago

Listen here you little shit.

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 days ago

lol what else did they mean by hemisphere? is there an eastern and a western hemisphere?

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

Yes! Divided by the prime meridian and the antimeridian. That's a good question, though.

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

That feels wrong though. First of all the prime meridian is completely arbitrary (as opposed to the equator), and in some parts of the world like Japan and New Zealand the "western" hemisphere would actually be closest towards the east.

[-] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 10 points 4 days ago

It is arbitrary! England declared themselves the center of the world, and everyone else went with it.

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