Find North without a compass (47 sec)
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An extremely simple method to find North. Sure, it's primitive engineering, but that's how engineering technology works, i.e., from primitive to complex. And sometimes primitive technology is still the most reliable.
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Now if only there were a simple video to show my ex-wife how to live within her means.

Not that I'm bitter or anything.


written by BillOreilly  | 5 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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Our Australian/SouthAfrican/Brazilian friends are going to be surprised at where north is if they use this method...


written by oxdottir  | 5 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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^They don't count. Besides, I don't have any friends in those places. What about dag, you say? He's not my friend; he's my lover.


written by kronosposeidon  | 5 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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>> ^oxdottir:
Our Australian/SouthAfrican/Brazilian friends are going to be surprised at where north is if they use this method...

Wait, wouldn't it work the same regardless of what hemisphere you're in? The sun moves from East to West in both hemispheres, right? So the shadow produced after waiting 15 minutes would still point East, thus making North the same too. Am I mistaken?




written by CaptWillard  | 5 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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>> ^CaptWillard:
>> ^oxdottir:
Our Australian/SouthAfrican/Brazilian friends are going to be surprised at where north is if they use this method...

Wait, wouldn't it work the same regardless of what hemisphere you're in? The sun moves from East to West in both hemispheres, right? So the shadow produced after waiting 15 minutes would still point East, thus making North the same too. Am I mistaken?


I hang my head in shame. The dear Captain is correct. Teach me to post when I'm tired...






written by oxdottir  | 5 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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>> ^BillOreilly:
Now if only there were a simple video to show my ex-wife how to live within her means.

Not that I'm bitter or anything.


But there are sooo many bodacious blonde bimbos at Fox News. Have you not a bounty from which to replenish?






written by CaptainPlanet420  | 5 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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>> ^CaptainPlanet420:
>> ^BillOreilly:
Now if only there were a simple video to show my ex-wife how to live within her means.

Not that I'm bitter or anything.


But there are sooo many bodacious blonde bimbos at Fox News. Have you not a bounty from which to replenish?


Once you've handled your business while looking at Coulter no other woman can match up.









written by fleetze  | 5 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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sucks to be you if you need to know which direction is which and you're stuck in a dark, dank forest.


written by complacentnation  | 5 months 1 week ago | CH
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ok, i have a stick. Now where do i find a deserted island paradise so i can plant it in the sand and find North?


written by Trancecoach  | 5 months 1 week ago | CH
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This should prove helpful when our Annual Sifter's Camping Trip goes terribly, terribly wrong.


written by schmawy  | 5 months 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^kronosposeidon:
^They don't count. Besides, I don't have any friends in those places. What about dag, you say? He's not my friend; he's my lover.


Know though that my heart will always belong to Barrack.




written by dag  | 5 months 1 week ago | CH
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Tags for this video have been changed from 'north, withouth, compass, stick, shadow' to 'north, without, compass, stick, shadow' - edited by calvados


written by siftbot  | 5 months 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^dag:

Know though that my heart will always belong to Barrack.


Obama only has one R in his first name. "Barrack" is where soldiers are housed. I guess Dag must be one of those who frequents such places; I'm going to go donate to VideoSift so that Dag doesn't have to sell his heart and the rest of his body to army men anymore to keep the site up and running.


written by Kuga  | 5 months 1 week ago | CH
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Thanks Kuga. Barrack is a male stripper down at the club. "Sergeant Barrack Lots O'Toole" is his stage name.


written by dag  | 5 months 1 week ago | CH
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I've seen worse. Brick, Bark, Brak, Berk, Beerak, Bork...


written by cheesemoo  | 5 months 1 week ago | CH
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Baraka from Mortal Kombat!


written by Farhad2000  | 5 months 1 week ago | CH
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I'm trying to visualize all of this in my insomniac head right now, so I may be wrong, but it seems to me that the further from the equator you are, the more inaccurate this method will be. In the northern hemisphere your shadow will point northeast (increasingly north the longer you wait). It will also point more north during the winter. The same holds true for the southern hemisphere but "north" becomes "south".

Seems you'd be better off finding a mossy tree.


written by xxovercastxx  | 5 months 1 week ago | CH
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