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SorayaSalan t1_j17k02a wrote

Mia Mulder made a great video on why this system is terrible

The main criticisms (if my memory serves correctly) were that the there just aren't enough simple recognisable words in the English language that can be used in this without causing confusion due to similar sounding words and two words next to each other sounding like another set of words, and the fact that landmasses are constantly moving.

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orincoro t1_j19mqqp wrote

Australia moves 15 meters A YEAR?

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[deleted] t1_j19mzkh wrote

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orincoro t1_j19omuz wrote

But 15 meters a year is really, really fast. The rest of the world is moving like 5-6 cm a year.

I have a hard time believing that figure because this would imply that Australia has moved 750 kilometers north in just the time since humans lived there. That would be really surprising to me.

Edit: as I suspected, it moves more like 15 meters every century. Still extremely fast for a continent, but not 15 meters a year.

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SorayaSalan t1_j1apaws wrote

Yes, it is indeed not 15 meters per year, sorry about that.

Removed that from my comment.

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EastNine t1_j18zo6g wrote

Also it’s fragile - with coordinates, similar values are near one another so incomplete or slightly wrong data can still put you in roughly the right place. Not so with this system where very similar codes can be hundreds of miles apart

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