Subject: where & how far are the farthest places continued<br/>
Date: Mar 12, 2004 @ 21:35<br/>
Author: m06079 (&quot;m06079&quot; &lt;barbaria_longa@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1315813259">ok i am back again already from both ecuador & sumatra <br/>
with several chunks of good news <br/>
on the <br/>
how far is it <br/>
front<br/>
<br/>
first & unexpectedly<br/>
we appear to have reached some sort of an objective ceiling<br/>
with the most recent instalment of this prolonged try <br/>
aka message 13550<br/>
to which this message is actually an addition<br/>
but which now seems to resist further additions to its text via the <br/>
normal reply function<br/>
<br/>
so our long years of trying & testing how high we can stack a <br/>
yahoo thread appear to have finally reached a certain objective <br/>
culmination & cosmic accolade<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
second<br/>
the actual progress report on the diametric trials<br/>
<br/>
the still uncorrobated but probably adequate peakware coords <br/>
in integral degmin or approximate mile squares <br/>
for all 4 of the candidate peaks of ecuador were first antipodized <br/>
to sumatra & then matched with the actual topography there<br/>
<br/>
& all 4 of these diametric trials arrived rather uniformly in various <br/>
parts of the coastal lowlands of riau province<br/>
where any boost obtained would certainly be measurable in no <br/>
more than single digits of meters<br/>
<br/>
so this discovery already flatly rules out candidate number 4<br/>
antisana<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& third<br/>
as to the only remaining question that needs to be answered <br/>
before selecting the true winner from among cayambe & its 2 <br/>
taller rivals is the question of the bulge gradient<br/>
<br/>
regardless of all those spheroidal & ellipsoidal & geoidal maths<br/>
which i confess i dont fully understand<br/>
my intuition keeps telling me that the latitudes of polar flattening <br/>
will be the more nearly spherical ones & the latitudes of <br/>
equatorial bulging the less spherical ones<br/>
& that the gradient of differentiation must be most gradual near <br/>
the poles & steepest & indeed quite steep nearest the equator<br/>
<br/>
so those 477 meters per degree average of yours lowell might <br/>
actually drop to 0 at the 90th degree but might approach 4777 or <br/>
even 47777 meters or who knows what maximum in the degree <br/>
or minute or second nearest the equator<br/>
<br/>
& having zigzagged all that thru my mind several times now in <br/>
both directions <br/>
i am imagining that your nod & blessing over it all yesterday <br/>
implicitly included your agreement on this very question about <br/>
the gradient <br/>
& that it just wasnt worth talking about then<br/>
so you didnt waste any breath on it<br/>
& it continues to not be worth talking about now<br/>
<br/>
except <br/>
i would like some explicit corroboration from at least someone <br/>
who feels comfortable with the maths in the links to message <br/>
13550<br/>
before continuing to acclaim cayambe the winner<br/>
& proceeding to zero in on its coords & its elevation<br/>
to obtain the final answer to & object of our quest <br/>
<br/>
thanx</div>