2519: "Sloped Border"

[ratammer]

Title text: "The slope will be 74° at ground level." "Okay, I think we can hack together a ... wait, why did they specify ground level? It's 74° everywhere, right? ... Oh no, there's a whole section in the treaty labeled 'curvature.'"

When that border gets far down enough towards the centre of the Earth, does it spiral?

[somitomi]

Do other borders extend to the center of the Earth like 3D versions of the Antarctic claim wedges?

[ratammer]

Well, they definitely go beneath the ground. And there's a certain depth where it doesn't really matter who owns what.

[heuristically_alone]

I own the center of the earth.

[pulsar512b]

there is a legitimate argument about who owns the center of the earth, as all ppl/countries with land that isnt like specifically "no you dont have mining rights" or something own down there.

[heuristically_alone]

Maybe someday we'll get a lot of flags on the core and it will look like the moon