Whatever would we do without internet experts?

[Morrisman]

Car Facebook groups are the worst, in the days where people joined a forum when they got a car or had a problem people giving incorrect advise would be called out for all to see. Now with Facebook groups people give total nonsense responses but the thread is gone from view within 24hrs. That said most of the people asking questions are too lazy to open their glove box and read the manual or do a search.

Some of the trike groups I'm on, thinking there would be a wealth of knowledge and experience.......but some of the utter twaddle people post when a question is asked is a joke. I'm sure they simply make it up on the spot.

 

[mtt.tr]

I know for one the internet would be very very quiet.


Personally you should question everything and research opinions with valid sources, because even idiots can pass on knowledge.





The needle thing is real we were shown in School although i don't recall much it was primarily it could well have been done with a magnet and I've never questioned one, I must resist the intriguing rabbit hole you have created.

 

[ajlelectronics]

The needle thing is real we were shown in School although i don't recall much it was primarily it could well have been done with a magnet and I've never questioned one, I must resist the intriguing rabbit hole you have created.

It certainly would work if the needle were magnetised. However, how (serious question) could you differentiate north from south with no other reference like the sun or stars?

 

[Farside]

I've just discovered a qualified de-bunker of tripe on youtube.
Thunderfoot. He, at least, has a Pretty Hot Doctorate in Chemistry and fings wot go bang, etc.
Unlike most of the other clowns who scrape crap together for likes and views and try to make out like some kind of expert.
T'foot is excoriating of them in the way he takes them apart.

 

[colnerov]

 

[mtt.tr]

It certainly would work if the needle were magnetised. However, how (serious question) could you differentiate north from south with no other reference like the sun or stars?

Oh no, it would be pure luck that you ended up somewhere useful

 

[mtt.tr]

I've just discovered a qualified de-bunker of tripe on youtube.
Thunderfoot. He, at least, has a Pretty Hot Doctorate in Chemistry and fings wot go bang, etc.
Unlike most of the other clowns who scrape crap together for likes and views and try to make out like some kind of expert.
T'foot is excoriating of them in the way he takes them apart.

He's been on my watch list for years.

He gets alot of grief from idiots.

 

[Johnnybravo]

It certainly would work if the needle were magnetised. However, how (serious question) could you differentiate north from south with no other reference like the sun or stars?

Yes I could, Quite easily. If I had to walk half a day and land in the sea, I would have been travelling south. If I walked for a couple of days and heard people talking with what sounds like a throat disease as an accent, I would have been travelling north



Jokes aside, the only way I can think of finding south disregarding the sun and the stars, and involving a huge amount of walking and swimming, and assuming you started North of the equator,would be to travel so far that the water drains out the sink in a clockwise vortex, you would have crossed the equator and would now find yourself in the southern hemisphere.

 

[Screwdriver]

It certainly would work if the needle were magnetised. However, how (serious question) could you differentiate north from south with no other reference like the sun or stars?

From a survival perspective, all you have to do is pick a direction and keep going in a straight line. In a desert for example, you can literally travel around in a big circle if you don't have a compass. I assume the same is true in the ocean or large forest. Once the needle has settled, it will be obvious which way it is oriented, calibrated by the sun/stars.

 

[mtt.tr]

From a survival perspective, all you have to do is pick a direction and keep going in a straight line. In a desert for example, you can literally travel around in a big circle if you don't have a compass. I assume the same is true in the ocean or large forest. Once the needle has settled, it will be obvious which way it is oriented, calibrated by the sun/stars.

Forest navigation can be pretty terrifying.