Compass pace oddity
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Feb 2016
2:00pm, 9 Feb 2016
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McGoohan
No. Where is zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude? The point at which the equator (0° latitude) and the prime meridian (0° longitude) intersect has no real significance but it is in the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean, about 380 miles (611 kilometers) south of Ghana and 670 miles (1078 km) west of Gabon. While the equator is an important line on the earth's surface, marking the line above which the sun is directly overhead on the March and September equinoxes, the prime meridian is an imaginary line, created by people to mark zero degrees longitude. It just happens to pass through Greenwich, but it could have been located anywhere. Therefore, the intersection of zero degrees longitude and zero degrees latitude is of no significance. |
Feb 2016
2:01pm, 9 Feb 2016
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GlennR
Geographical, I think.
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Feb 2016
2:01pm, 9 Feb 2016
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fetcheveryone
No, that's 90,0 (although longitude doesn't make any sense at the north pole). 0,0 is off the coast of Africa. |
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Feb 2016
2:01pm, 9 Feb 2016
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McGoohan
Did any of your runs happen to pass through the Gulf of Guinea? Or was that where the alien ship was located?
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Feb 2016
2:02pm, 9 Feb 2016
17,154 posts
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GlennR
OIC
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Feb 2016
2:29pm, 9 Feb 2016
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Red Squirrel
Is this a running tribute to David Bowie?
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Feb 2016
2:43pm, 9 Feb 2016
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Dvorak
I run in all directions, but my "Souths" show as freakishly slow. For example my last run shows me heading South at 204 mins/km pace. Mind you, I was under 3 mins/km in all other directions.
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Feb 2016
2:51pm, 9 Feb 2016
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larkim
Well apparently I spent 99.9% of my time heading "North" to the southern-located off-African-coast spot of 0,0. Them alien's have got some crazy navigating skills
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Feb 2016
2:51pm, 9 Feb 2016
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Dvorak
PS the meridian was laid down in St Andrews over 200 years before those English interlopers came up with theirs.
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Feb 2016
3:32pm, 9 Feb 2016
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McGoohan
"You can tak oor lives, but ye'll nivver tak oor Meridian!"
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