My eight year old just asked, "What person invented north, south, east, and west?"
Well...?
Al Gore Ithm & his Band ?
TNAI
Obviously someone from the Northern Hemisphere.
> Obviously someone from the Northern Hemisphere.
I've got a North Face backpack. I wonder what kind RADU has?
Doesn't matter what kind he has, the closing flap will be on the oppose end from yours, if not, all his stuff would fall out while he was trying to pack it. As far as naming the points, there were 4 sailors, MR. East, Mr. North, Mr, South and Mr. West that were charged by the Queen of England to design a standard compass rose, they drew straws for their position on the face of it.
jud
The fact that your son would even think to ask that question is a good sign of his intelligence.
At 8 it wouldn't have occurred to me that N S E W wasn't just a part of nature.
> The fact that your son would even think to ask that question is a good sign of his intelligence.
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> At 8 it wouldn't have occurred to me that N S E W wasn't just a part of nature.
No kidding Dave. Pretty good thinker there for certain. At that age I think many are still trying to keep right & left straight in their minds. Kind of like Wendell's Your Other Left.
I remember when I was 11 or 12 and on those long grueling rides to grandma & grandpa's house in OH (about 150 miles or so from Detroit) I would check the milage markers on the highway and Dads speedometer on the '65 Galaxy, against time. I had a really cool watch with a second hand, and knew that 60 mph was a mile a minute.
You should have seen the look on Moms face when I told them that the speedometer was off by a little, and how I figured it out. They thought they created a monster....
.....sure enough, here I be some 45 yrs later adjusting my speed to compensate for oversized tires. Jeep is about 8%, truck about 3% - slower that I need to read on the speedometer to be legal. Thanks to my Garmin ETrex...
These letters are arranged wrong. They should be N E W S. :>)
I was never a boy scout, however, I somehow ended up with a stack of their magazines once when I was maybe 8 or 9. They had a section dedicated to letters from readers or something like that was labeled something like....Letters from North, East, West and South with the names of the directions positioned such that they spelled out the word NEWS. I remember thinking at the time how clever that was. Now, it's 50 years later and I'm reminded of that.
