good thinking
thank you
so all i need to find now is a big enough & good enough & new
enough globe
since i already own the string
& some additional number crunching i have also been doing in
the meantime tells me the great circle isthmus route actually
runs a good deal farther to the west than i had previously thought
possible
thus very likely introducing the slight additional complication of
dividing several other countries too
while also decimating if not completely obliterating & reversing
the 1400 ksk advantage enjoyed by the west lobe in the previous
trial balance
& thus the contest has tightened up again into an implausibly
dead heat
for now
nor would i have wanted it any other way frankly
but this is looking very doable now
what fun
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> The best practical visualization of any great circle on a map is
to stretch a
> string between the two terminal points on the surface of a
globe. Most folks
> don't have a globe lying around, but most libraries do.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@y...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 4:50 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] widest isthmus measured but largest
peninsula still
> elusive
>
>
> >
> > some slight additional progress has been made toward
> > determining the worlds largest peninsula
> >
> > for starters
> > the coords of the termini of its isthmus
> > also evidently the worlds largest of its kind
> > have been carefully noted
> > to the best of my limited ability
> > specifically
> > nlat 63d40m x elong 37d48m
> > on onega gulf of the white sea
> > &
> > nlat 30d30m x elong 48d54m
> > on an iranian inlet of the persian gulf
> >
> > but that is accurately enough for a much improved
> > trial balance to be based upon & to proceed from
> > if only i could figure out how to superimpose an image
> > of the great circle arc that would join these terminal
> > points
> > onto an outline map of the countries it would cross
> > particularly russia & azerbaijan & iran
> > all accurately enough to permit reasonably good
> > estimates of the proportions of the territorial areas
> > of those countries that would fall to either side of
> > the isthmus
> >
> > but can anyone help with that or toward that
> >
> > & it probably wouldnt even have to be extremely
> > terribly accurate for the trial to be successful
> > either
> > since
> > again
> > the margin of imbalance isnt very likely to be so
> > razor thin that it would matter
> >
> > indeed our remaining without a sure winner at this
> > late hour hasnt been due so much to any precision gap
> > as it has been to an understanding gap
> > til recently anyway
> > & as it is due now to a technique gap
> >
> > for the moment
> >
> > but i think the puzzle is very solvable in due time
> >
> >
> >
> > um
> > & being temporarily stumped in the original direction
> > i did at least take some substitute gratification in
> > determining the length of the worlds longest isthmus
> > since i could
> >
> > 3768 kilometers
> >
> >
> > um
> > & it has also occurred to me that another good name
> > for the winning peninsula
> > whichever lobe it is
> > might be
> > daedalus 9
> > as in the surreal line score of the event
> > daedalus nine
> > peninsula dead
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > hmm
> > maybe i could get the guinness people to help me out
> > with this trial balance demonstration
> > since they will need it to be satisfied themselves in
> > the end
> >
> > & they might take an active interest in such a
> > definitive winner once they realize one can be had
> >
> > but i guess the trick will be in convincing them that
> > such a monster of a winner would still be a peninsula
> >
> > it does boggle the mind a bit
> >
> >
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