Brain Teaser #3

[Groo]

Only if you walk a mile in a perfect circle -- which is very unlikely unless you have a trail to follow.

The night before you attempt this... someone in your party walks to the exact location of the pole, and drives a very solid stake into the snow/ground. He then makes a loop at one end of a rope he brought with him and attaches that to the stake. He begins to walk away from the stake in the direction of the camp, and after pacing off exactly 250 yards, marks the rope.

When you get up the next day, you walk towards the pole, and upon reaching the mark in the rope, you pick it up, and begin walking perpendicularly to the rope, keeping it tight the whole time. By doing this, the rope will force you to walk in a circle around the pole.

 

[MCRIDER007]

When you get up the next day, you walk towards the pole, and upon reaching the mark in the rope, you pick it up, and begin walking perpendicularly to the rope, keeping it tight the whole time.  By doing this, the rope will force you to walk in a circle around the pole. 

Yea, that will work as long as someone can find the South Pole and you can drag that 250 yard long rope and it doesn't get snagged on anything. Seems like there should be an easier way for a hunter to find his way back to camp.

I might have missed something -- how does the guy who found the South pole know which direction it is back to camp? Does he use the breadcrumb method or does his rope stretch all the way from the camp to the South Pole?

 

[yanktar]

When you get up the next day, you walk towards the pole, and upon reaching the mark in the rope, you pick it up, and begin walking perpendicularly to the rope, keeping it tight the whole time.  By doing this, the rope will force you to walk in a circle around the pole.  

Yea, that will work as long as someone can find the South Pole and you can drag that 250 yard long rope and it doesn't get snagged on anything. Seems like there should be an easier way for a hunter to find his way back to camp.

I might have missed something -- how does the guy who found the South pole know which direction it is back to camp? Does he use the breadcrumb method or does his rope stretch all the way from the camp to the South Pole?

Go back to the part about the sextant and the celestial compass--or the GPS unit....

Now WHY some bozo would camp 1.159 miles North of the South Pole, then go South 1 mile, West 1 mile (circling the Pole) and North 1 mile, in the heart of Antarctica, freezing his caloonies off, is ANOTHER riddle, but one I don't have the answer to.

 

[Centerline]

Ahhh, yes...Arctic from Greek Arktos meaning BEAR like 2 big constellations named for bears near the North Star.

Also happen to have bears in the north.

Antarctic..... Anti=no or none bears around here.