Two quick notes btw. The universe page is updated and can someone link it onto here?

If you hate my wish then just reject it. I’ve already been forced to waste two wishes. Asshole.

Whoa… I must be tired. Sorry about that.

Lol *shrugs* no harm done and I didn’t hate it. I just worked around any paradox it might have caused. Just call me a cure for DDAtis lol.

What do you mean by planets having four poles? Are you saying we’re at the south magnetic pole? I was under the impression that we were at the geographic south pole (no longer extant, since it is defined by a planet’s rotation), because that’s where the Wikipedia page for “South Pole” redirects.

My thinking is at the east and west poles exist for real by the same manner as written, just using the equator instead of the prime meridian.

Logically, the prime meridian should still exist - it’s just the planet’s new equator. Meanwhile, the old equator is the new prime meridian.

I edited the post to have the correct link. Technically this is illegal, so if anyone feels particularly strongly about this, feel free to remove “pedia” from the link.

Darknight: If you go far enough north (in the real world), you hit the north pole, and can’t go north any further. If you go far enough east, you go around the entire world in an infinite loop without ever getting to a place where you can’t get any further east. Under a radically different coordinate system, planets could have six poles. I’m not sure how a four pole system would work.

Darth: Actually, the new equator is roughly what was once 10°E and 170°W. I say “roughly” not only because I rounded to the nearest full degree, but because the new poles aren’t on the old equator, so the new equator isn’t equivalent to any of the old meridians.

The prime meridian still exists; it just isn’t a line between the North and South Poles anymore.

Darknight says it doesn’t and the ruleset declares that he has final judgment in these matters.

As a point of order, changes to the Universe are required to be tracked on a Wiki page…

They have been, but now I’ve put linked the wiki page in the sidebar.

Love how my left field logic befuddled everyone, myself included lol.

Okay, I drew a model on an orange a co-worker left at work (Wonder what they’re gonna think about that…), and a four-pole system does work. You put each pair of poles on the other pair’s equator, and draw lines of latitude from them. It actually makes a bit more sense, since a one degree difference is the same distance regardless of proximity to (either of) the equator(s).

Regardless, if we still have a North and South Pole and a Royal Observatory in Greenwich (and there’s no reason we shouldn’t have that one), why don’t we have the line that connects them? And why do all other lines of latitude and longitude still exist if that one doesn’t?

Piers Anthony talks about East and West poles in his books, and I never understood what he was talking about.