Talk:Equator
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"Normal seasons can not occur at the equator."
Yet equatorial countries do have seasons. What is the explanation for this? Participation in non-local weather systems? -- The Anome
That's why I said "Normal" --- Karl Palmen
I deleted the sentence
- "Normal seasons can not occur at the equator."
What constitutes a "normal" season is relative, and it is absurd to identify spring/summer/winter/fall as "normal" seasons just because many wikipedians live in temperate zones and are used to it. It's like saying, people in the tropics don't speak a normal language, because whatever they speak it isn't what I am used to. No, the seasons at the equator, just like the languages people speak, are indeed different from what you find in Nebraska (for example) -- but that doesn't make them abnormal. Indeed, people time all sorts of activities according to their seasons.
People who live on the equator identify all sorts of seasons and a good encyclopedia article will explore this. I don't know enough to do justice to it, but I hope my change is a step in the right direction. SR
Thanks to User:MPF for correcting my excess verbosity. :) He's right, of course: an object doesn't have to be solid to have an equator. This is what I get for editing late at night after reading Jack Vance. ZorkFox 06:43, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Pini
I deleted Pini island from the list as it is actually a handful of miles north of the equator (0.13 degrees north). Anagnorisis 19:26, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Why should individual islands be deleted for all countries except Indonesia, Ecuador, and ST&P? --User:Lasunncty
[edit] Countries through whose waters the equator passes
How do we find out what waters belong to which nations? I am sceptical about Singapore being part of the list; the wiki page for it states that it is 137km north of the equator. How far do its waters stretch? --Spudtater 22:47, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
- Definitely out of the 12 nautical miles denoted by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
[edit] Crossing the line at the Prime Meridian
Note that this page currently calls sailors who cross at the point where the equator meets the Prime Meridian "Emerald Shellbacks" whereas the page Line-crossing ceremony calls them "Royal Diamond Shellbacks". Possibly both are correct. Could someone who knows about these titles edit either or both pages to show either the correct or both names. :-)
Stelio 21:18, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What about the water flow???
In the northern hemisphere the water drains clockwise and vice versa......
But what happens at the equator???
Do you cross a point where the waters direction changes automatically? Or is it a random changing?
- This is an urban legand. In practice, the Coriolis effect is too weak to have such an effect except in very unusual circumstances. You can check out the references article and also do a search (I've seen some good discussion online Nil Einne 15:44, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Equator History
What is the history of the name "Equator" for the latitude 0 line?
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- It's originally from Latin, "circulus aequator diei et noctis", which means "circle equalising day and night". That referred specifically to the Celestial equator, but you can think of an "equator" as being something that splits a sphere into two parts that "equate"; i.e. two equal parts. 143.252.80.110 19:28, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Comma
In many places in the world the comma is used as a decmil seperator instead of the period. I change the seperator of groups of three digits to a space to aliviate any confusion. I left periods as the decmil seperator for now. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.14.55.227 (talk) S.D. ¿п? § 00:52, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Among English-speaking countries, only Australia uses the SI style (see Decimal separator), and the article isn't written in Australian English. Furthermore, other numbers within the article used the comma. I've made the article consistently use the comma as the group separator, as is customary in a majority of English-speaking countries. Susan Davis 13:15, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] citation for shellback award/ceremony
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq92-3.htm don't have time to put it in nicely cited, someone go ahead :) —Hobart 14:47, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Worldwide view
This article is extremely biased towards Earthlings. I am not trying to be racist or anything, but there are gazillions of other planets, and this article is not paying much attention to that fact. It is written in a very Earth-centric way. May further edits please respect the diversity of the universe and not discriminate against the rest of the creation. ► Adriaan90 ( Talk ♥ Contribs ) ♪♫ 17:31, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Original mapping
I think it would be helpful and interesting to note how and when the equator was first identified, and how those people were able to do it. --Robertknyc 04:56, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
