On Tuesday, July 9, 2002, at 11:57 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
> At 6:15 PM -0600 7/9/02, Dar Scott wrote: >> Let's see. RunRev HQ is NE of my house. And my house is about >> NW of RunRev HQ. How can that be? > > It's possible for RunRev HQ to be exactly NE of you, _and_ for you > to be exactly NW of them. ... > This is roughly halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica. My > globe doesn't show anything but water near there. Since you said, > "about" the choice seems to be New Zealand. There is another solution near British Columbia, Canada. (Do we know anybody there?) The latitude should be the same as Edinburg, but I don't know a quick way to get the longitude. The "about" makes this riddle apply to just about any place in western North America including New Mexico and California. Oh, yeah, and New Zealand and Australia. Follow the great circle going NW from Edinburgh. Shortly, you are going WNW. After you pass Greenland, you are going west. At some point near BC you are going SW. You cross the equator going SSW. Near the Tasman Basin (by Australia and New Zealand) you are going SW again. In the southern Indian Ocean you are going west and then NW. You cross the equator near western Africa going NNW. When you get back to Edinburg, you are going NW again. You may stop. The solutions are those that have the direction SW, since the opposite direction is NE. Now, my other question? Dar Scott _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
