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No hurricane has ever crossed the equator (i.redd.it)
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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Do you realize what this means? We can stop hurricanes dead in their tracks by moving the equator around.

The equator is an imaginary line, and therefore has zero mass. By wobbling the rotational polarity of the planet’s rotational wobbling we can probably just cut the hurricanes in half.