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Attenborough, by the Grace of God etc etc
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 2:20 pm
by spot
The Great Man just said something in Episode 3 of his Natural Curiosities which has led me to sit back pondering. His words, as I recall them, were
"They live in the northerly part of Antarctica" ...
(in reference to king penguins)
... and I still haven't delved sufficiently in my mind to work out what other sort of Antarctica exists.
This thread may be used to laud Attenborough and all his mighty works, while I try to work out what he meant.
Attenborough, by the Grace of God etc etc
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 3:13 pm
by Bruv
Everywhere other than the exact pole is northerly?
Attenborough, by the Grace of God etc etc
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 3:26 pm
by spot
Unless my grasp of Geography has entirely failed me, I'd have thought that was so.
It's one of those places where if you walk a mile north, a mile east and a mile south you get back to where you started, yes?
Or if you start out anywhere (2Ï€+1)/2Ï€ miles away from the north pole, drop a dark stone and then walk the exact same route - a mile north, a mile east and a mile south - and again you're back where you're started and you can pick the stone up again. So they say, I've never been there to try. But it's odd you can do the same thing at the opposite ends of the planet and nowhere else. Well, nowhere else that's a long way off.
Attenborough, by the Grace of God etc etc
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 4:22 pm
by LarsMac
spot;1492040 wrote: The Great Man just said something in Episode 3 of his Natural Curiosities which has led me to sit back pondering. His words, as I recall them, were
"They live in the northerly part of Antarctica" ...
(in reference to king penguins)
... and I still haven't delved sufficiently in my mind to work out what other sort of Antarctica exists.
This thread may be used to laud Attenborough and all his mighty works, while I try to work out what he meant.
He does have a sense of humor, you know.