Hi John ;)
   um.... I would reply that it was 2 feet from my position bearing 270
degrees :) hehehe

Art "it's all Relative or True or Magnetic or Grid .... depending :) " Bahrs

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From: John Clogg <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 2:52 PM
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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Subject: Re: Friday rivia
Date: Monday, August 07, 2000 4:41PM

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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
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From: Nick Demos <[log in to unmask]> on 08/07/2000 02:25 PM

Please respond to Nick Demos <[log in to unmask]>


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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.