If you get lost in the forest, why can’t you make a 180 degree turn and walk back?

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If you get lost in the forest, why can’t you make a 180 degree turn and walk back?

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Yo ucould if you were going in a perfectly straight line. But if you were doing that you’d be on a path or something, because otherwise you’d have to be moving around objects a lot. and even if you try and stay going to same direction as you do, you’ll always be a bit off from it.

While a small change might not seem like much at first, walking in slightly different direction will eventually take you to a drastically different place.

And of course you’ll be having the same problem the whole time as you did when getting there: you won’t travel in a straight line. These things get compounded very fast until you have no idea where you are.

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