How Good is Your Geographic? [4]

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Originally Posted by Breeze

Hey gang, how's it hangin?

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Mine is hanging well, thank you. :erm: :p :

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Originally Posted by studiose

Mine is hanging well, thank you. :erm: :p :

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But is your ball spherical?

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Originally Posted by Eki

But is your ball spherical?

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Should be! I'll go and check. :p :

Errr....whos turn is it? :-)

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Originally Posted by Breeze

...Hey gang, how's it hangin?

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Hey Gar... er I mean Breeze, good to see you back. That avian companion of yours still kicking around? :p :

As to the current Q, I'll take a wild stab and guess that sun tanning on a beach in Ecuador my backside would be 0.8% higher in altitude than if freezing spherical parts of my anatomy at the North pole.

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Originally Posted by Breeze

Looks like folks are already getting bored with Donkey boy's question. I'll verture a random guesstimate that the polar meridian is 96.5% that of the equator, so the earth is 98.9% spherical. And I did all that without a lick of math!!!

Hey gang, how's it hangin?

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over to you, crow boy :wave: :D

factor 10 out but at least you stabbed a guess :up:

deviation from a sphere is roughly 1 in 300, in case anyone's remotely interested :p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattening
the Moon would make a better billiard ball (1 in 900), and Saturn (1 in 10) is almost as squashed as Eki's ball

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Originally Posted by schmenke

As to the current Q, I'll take a wild stab and guess that sun tanning on a beach in Ecuador my backside would be 0.8% higher in altitude than if freezing spherical parts of my anatomy at the North pole.

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sorry schmenks, although "0.8%" is fairly close to "0.3%", the Sun's altitude depends not only on where you're tanning or freezing but also on the time of day ;) :p
Horizontal coordinate system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oh, sheet. Thanks Donks, I was totally unprepared for that what with a complete WAG. But, since I'm here, your Q got me wondering what latitude would boast the greatest population density? For that matter, what longitude? More importantly, if I met at their intersection, where would I be? Roughly.

Hi Pet, em, schmenke. Glad to here you're hangin in there Studiose, and that Eki's 'nads are mostly round, though I could have done without that.....

[quote="schmenke"]Hey Gar... er I mean Breeze, good to see you back. That avian companion of yours still kicking around?[quote]

Haven't heard from old Edgar in a Coon's age, but I do have some contact info. Maybe I should catch up and see what kind of trouble he's been getting into. :devil:

Good question, Breeze! I would so want to look at a map right now, but off the top of my head, I'd guess:
- latitude 30 degrees North (going through North America, Europe, India or China, or so I hope)
- longtitude 30 degrees East (going through Europe and Africa)

Their intersection would, I guess, be somewhere around Greece.