Saturday, April 18, 2009

I went to the Prime Meridian!

Went to Greenwich today to go to the Prime Meridian of the WORLD!




View from aboooooove.


Where the Royal Observatory said the prime meridian was, with a nice little sculpture and everything.


...but our GPS says it's about 300 ft. to the east on some grassy patch... so wth?!
+The Prime Meridian is erratic! It changes every few often!
+The British just decided that they're going to be the ruler of the seas and used the Greenwich meridian as a reference point. The French obstain and use another (of course.)
+GPS systems use a different global positioning system, and thus the difference!

Sidenote:

Delicious delicious Montgomery cheddar cheese from Neal's Yard at Covent Garden... SOOOOO goooooooooodddddd.

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