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Re:Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star by umanwizard on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @06:10PM (#12355646)
You don't have to look to rural tribes to find this behavior. In Manhattan, "North" and "South" usually are colloquially defined with respect to the orientation of the island, not the actual compass directions.
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Re:Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star by thaumasiotes on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @06:15PM (#12355672)
And here in the vicinity of Santa Cruz, and going up towards San Francisco, "north" and "south" are often defined by reference to the labels on a freeway, even when that freeway in fact runs east-west.
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Re:Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @06:30PM (#12355748)
Doing that in the Bay Area can have some odd results, as (for example) there is a stretch of freeway that is simultaneously I-580W and I-80E (and vice versa). Naturally, it runs almost due North and South.
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