If you are standing right on the North Pole and take one step in any direction are you going south, regardless of the direction you take?
2006-07-21 04:23:50 · 29 answers · asked by loufedalis 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
South.
2006-07-21 04:25:47 · answer #1 · answered by oldporkchops 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
South
2006-07-21 11:28:28 · answer #2 · answered by Mariah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
South
2006-07-21 11:27:03 · answer #3 · answered by anonymous 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
South
2006-07-21 11:25:58 · answer #4 · answered by Garth 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
South!
2006-07-21 14:57:24 · answer #5 · answered by kelvin low 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
There is a slightly famous logical puzzle which relies on this fact:
I get out of my tent, travel 100m south and see a bear. I then travel 100m east and 100m north and get back to my tent.
What colour was the bear?
The camper was camping on the noth pole - he travelled south a certain distance then travelled around the pole to the east and then travelled back up north towards the pole and where he started, even though he is not travelling back up the same north-south line that he walked down.
And the bear? it was a polar bear so it is white!
Another way of looking at it is to think of a globe. There are verticle lines of longitude which go from pole to pole. These are all North-South lines, even though they are in different directions.
2006-07-21 11:31:38 · answer #6 · answered by robcraine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would need you to be more specific, North Pole like Santa Clause, North Pole, Alaska, or do you mean, at the northern most part of the earth, then I would have to know if you mean true north, magnetic north or grid north. Anyhow, if you are at true north and took one step in any direction, what would happen if you had a ladder and stepped up? Then you would be going north... Have a great day...
2006-07-21 11:31:40 · answer #7 · answered by 345Grasshopper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is this a trick question. I live in North Pole Alaska and if I take a step in any direction I would get run over by the tourist
2006-07-22 13:50:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on which North Pole you mean. The magnetic north pole of the earth is located in northern Canada, so you could be headed in any direction depending on which way you go. The axial north pole is the northernmost point on the planet, so any direction you travel would have to be south.
So in order to cover all the bases... you would be headed 'Not North'.
2006-07-21 11:34:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
South pole.
2006-07-21 13:28:22 · answer #10 · answered by sa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋