Thursday 6 December 2007

Cool Trivia #1

In the northern hemisphere, if you are lost and are wearing a watch with the hands, you can point your hour hand towards the sun and exactly half way between the sun and the 12 on your watch is south.

Haven't tested the theory but pretty freakin cool...

2 comments:

jen said...

I wonder if it would have helped with setting up our satellite dish, the compass was of no help whatsoever because of the whole north pole dealy.LOL

Jackie S. Quire said...

just don't get lost on the 21st of december, because you might not have time to do the "calculations" !!!