13th December 2003, 9:51 PM
Birds might get lost, we'd have to either make brand new compases to show north on the right side, or call the north pole the south one (more likely to do the former, who has a compass anyway, easy to just change them, no one wants to suddenly be calling the north pole the south pole). That's it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)