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2519: "Sloped Border"
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 9:24 pm
by 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?
Re: 2519: "Sloped Border"
Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 9:35 am
by somitomi
Do other borders extend to the center of the Earth like 3D versions of the Antarctic claim wedges?
Re: 2519: "Sloped Border"
Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 12:08 pm
by ratammer
Well, they definitely go beneath the ground. And there's a certain depth where it doesn't really matter who owns what.
Re: 2519: "Sloped Border"
Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 1:46 pm
by heuristically_alone
I own the center of the earth.
Re: 2519: "Sloped Border"
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 12:07 am
by 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.
Re: 2519: "Sloped Border"
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 8:40 am
by heuristically_alone
Maybe someday we'll get a lot of flags on the core and it will look like the moon