Re: Currents was Re: Re: boustrophedon (was: Atlantis II)
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 5, 2001, 20:35 |
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On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, John Cowan wrote:
>Padraic Brown scripsit:
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>> I think your planet would have to spin in the opposite direction
>> from Earth in order for that to work.
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>But if it did, then east and west would be reversed:
Only from our perspective. I may be wrong, but I think a
west to east Gulf Stream would require the opposite spin
though.
>east is by definition the direction of sunrise.
There you go!
It'd only be a matter of whether East is on the left or right
as you face the nearest polar regions. East and west are just
a matter of perspective.
Besides, if we transfer all our septentrional perceptions to
Enzed or Oz, then everything would be reversed as well. If
you have one, turn a globe "upsidedown" sometime and see the
perspective change.
Padraic.
>John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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