You could only say the former because the latter changes
with latitude, and you would still be 898 miles short of the mark
at the earth's equator.

Tracy M. Johnson
TRW Automotive Electronics
Sensors & Components

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Clogg [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 5:53 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Friday rivia
>
>
> If you were standing 1 foot east of the 180th meridian and
> you were referring to an object that was one foot to the west
> of it, would you say that object was two feet to the west or
> 25,000 miles to the east?
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> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Friday rivia
> Date: Monday, August 07, 2000 4:41PM
>
> <<File Attachment: ENVELOPE.TXT>>
> As much as I wanted to leave this thread alone, I now must jump in.
> I have to disagree with Nick. Which way you travel to get
> there, wasn't
> the
> question.
> If I fly out of California to Japan I would travel west and Japan is
> (far) east
> of the United States.
> So you can travel westward and then be at a destination east
> of where you
> left.
>
> Garo K. Akcelik
> System Administrator
> Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon / Regence HMO Oregon
> ==========================================================
> The opinions expressed, here, are mine and mine alone.
>
>
>
>  ---------------------- Forwarded by Garo K Akcelik/BCBSO/TBG on
> 08/07/2000 02:32
> PM ---------------------------
>
> From: Nick Demos <[log in to unmask]> on 08/07/2000 02:25 PM
>
> Please respond to Nick Demos <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> cc:    (bcc: Garo K Akcelik/BCBSO/TBG)
>
> Subject:  Re: [HP3000-L] Friday rivia
>
>
>
>
> Wirt Atmar wrote:
> >
> > Nick writes:
> >
> > > The answer given for Alaska is only correct if you are attending
> > >  in Greenwich and are counting longtitudes.
> >
> > Unfortunately, that's the definition of east and west, just as the
> equator is
> > used to define north and south.
> >
> > Wirt Atmar
>
> What?  These are directions, not places.  Rio is north of Buenos Aires
> even
> if it is south  of the equator.  If I wanted to reach Atlanta
> from here
> (Baltimore) I would travel south.  If I wanted to reach ATTU I would
> travel northwest not east.
>
> Nick D.
>