Sign? What Sign?

[darph nader]

Of course,if you were at one of the poles,you'd have a 50/50 chance of getting it right.

[Shorty82]

hehehehehe

never while driving.

its just that when driving I-5 NORTH, it is a little suprising to see the compass (and gps) say you are going west.

I-4 is the same way. It's path is more North-South than East-West yet it is a E-W highway.

[turkeyham]

Have you notice when it rains out here, the drivers freak out? No wonder the freeways are a mess. :D:

[darph nader]

Have you notice when it rains out here, the drivers freak out? No wonder the freeways are a mess. :D:

I thought that was just a Tucson thing.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Have you notice when it rains out here, the drivers freak out? No wonder the freeways are a mess. :D:

REALLY! I grew up and learned to drive in the midwest, lots of rain, ice and snow gives you driving skills that most out here don't understand.

umm people, when it rains...SLOW DOWN. duhhhhhh!!

[Main Streeter]

Have you notice when it rains out here, the drivers freak out?

All the transplants to Ca. love to say this. Our freeways wouldn't be a mess if Ca. hadn't let you in.

[leftcoaster]

This is good! Have wondered abt you & missed you. :)

I just haven't had the time, but I am trying to make the time. Now to try and catch up.

To mess up a compass would take a major shift in Earth's magnetic field. Only place a compass would be useless would be at the Poles.

Technically no, because it depends on which Pole you are talking about: the magnetic North Pole or the terrestrial North Pole. I don't know what would specifically happen if you placed a compass at the exact Magnetic North Pole, but my guess is that is would actually want to point "down" (because the lump of metal that defines the magnetic North Pole is buried in the earth). In that case, any direction that the "south" end of the needle points is technically "South."

If you were at the South Pole, any direction would technically be "North."

If you were at the terrestrial North Pole, a compass would still point towards the magnetic North Pole. I'm not sure how far apart they actually are, but they are probably a few hundred miles apart, because of the magnetic declination (which is the difference between the magnetic North Pole and the terrestrial North Pole, which is called "true North.")

[BRWombat]

Have you notice when it rains out here, the drivers freak out? No wonder the freeways are a mess. :D:

Same thing in Dallas, but not with rain -- with ice. People around here just do not know how to drive on it. Having grown up in Colorado I have little problem with it, but I'm always a lot more scared by other drivers than by the ice itself.

[Lasolimu]

Same thing in Dallas, but not with rain -- with ice. People around here just do not know how to drive on it. Having grown up in Colorado I have little problem with it, but I'm always a lot more scared by other drivers than by the ice itself.

This, though much worse. Living in Utah I find that no one knows how to drive in the snow, which is weird because we get snow every year, it isn't a surprise. I could understand people from out of the area having problems, but locals? Come on people.

[kurtisnelson]

(because the lump of metal that defines the magnetic North Pole is buried in the earth).)

There is no lump of metal in the earth that creates the magnetic poles, the poles come about because of the massive size of the earth and over time the fields of all the rock lining up and such.