Flerfs have a hard time finding any sources that support their claims. This leads to ‘cherry picking’ sections of text from other sources; without fail they remove context and misrepresent the authors of these sources.
Flerfs have a hard time finding any sources that support their claims. This leads to ‘cherry picking’ sections of text from other sources; without fail they remove context and misrepresent the authors of these sources. See also Toon’s law of Flerf #1 .
One of the stranger cherry picks is this, from the University of Hawaii, used by “Mr Ghetto Daddy” on YouTube.
If you can locate the North Star, the angle between the height of the North Star when it reaches its zenith (highest point) in the sky and the horizon indicates your location in degrees latitude1. The North Star is a unique star for navigation in the northern hemisphere because it is located almost directly above the earth’s North Pole (SF Fig. 8.3). At the equator, an observer will see that the North Star is located almost exactly at the horizon. Thus, at the equator, the angle between the horizon and the North Star is zero degrees, indicating the observer is at zero degrees latitude.
Hard to know were Mr Ghetto Daddy is going with this. The reference to ‘hemisphere’ is ignored, and the reference to Fig 8.3 is removed from his quote. Here is that diagram. Note the rather large distance to Polaris. No wonder as to why he removed the reference.
SF Fig. 8.3. A diagram depicts the relationship between the North Star, Earth’s axis, and its orbit (diagram is not drawn to scale). The North Star is 434 light-years away from earth.
