Neil deGrasse Tyson
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That was my problem.
That was my problem with Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Do you remember that scene where they figure out where they're going to land?
Do you remember that scene?
The teletype gives the longitude and latitude.
They say, wait a minute.
That's a coordinates on Earth.
And then they go get the map.
And it's Devil's Tower.
It's like, oh my gosh.
And you know my issue here, Jake?
Our latitude goes from zero to 90.
Who thought that up?
And between zero and one and one and two, it's split into 60 parts.
And the longitude is an act of politics that put the prime meridian through Greenwich.