2519: "Sloped Border"

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2519: "Sloped Border"

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Title text: "The slope will be 74° at ground level." "Okay, I think we can hack together a ... wait, why did they specify ground level? It's 74° everywhere, right? ... Oh no, there's a whole section in the treaty labeled 'curvature.'"

When that border gets far down enough towards the centre of the Earth, does it spiral?
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Do other borders extend to the center of the Earth like 3D versions of the Antarctic claim wedges?
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Well, they definitely go beneath the ground. And there's a certain depth where it doesn't really matter who owns what.
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I own the center of the earth.
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there is a legitimate argument about who owns the center of the earth, as all ppl/countries with land that isnt like specifically "no you dont have mining rights" or something own down there.
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Maybe someday we'll get a lot of flags on the core and it will look like the moon
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