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Visiting Every Latitude and Longitude Intersection
Kevin A. Pieckiel writes "The Degree Confluence Project's goal is to visit every latitude and logitude degree integer intersection in the world and journal it on this web site. An excerpt: 'The project is an organized sampling of the world. There is a confluence within 49 miles (79 km) of you if you're on the surface of Earth. We've discounted confluences in the oceans and some near the poles, but there are still 12,889 to be found.' A neat project, indeed." As Timothy noted, I've posted before, and in Slashback form; a while back.
Why?
How is this project any more interesting or useful than a confluence of any other human-specified arbitrary classification, e.g. visiting every peak who altitude in cubits is a prime number?
half way through this project this guys will wonder, "why are we doing this again?"
Assuming the girls know about the extra relationships, and are ok with it, that's a lot of latitude!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Methinks the shark /. jumped this morning just did its own jumping...
Random pictures at arbitrary points on the planet.
Sounds just like every other photo blog.
I found every single one of them. They're all right here on my globe.
Yep. Probably around 9 or 10 AM tomorrow when they sober up....
I can see it now...
"I was unable to get to 70W by 45N, because there was an Army base there. Update: Someone's knocking on the door."
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Hasn't another project already acheived this and begun interpolation?
And on top of that, we already have another project to visit all those locations, which have have been marked with a retail location by the previous project.
So while some redundancy may be a good thing, this sounds like overkill.
I'm posting from Mars, you insensitive clod!
The worst part is that it's almost impossible to get a first post from here...
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This project would be a lot easier if they were working in the more natural units of radians rather than degrees. :)
Thanks!
- Osama
Life is short, go do something with your lives, don't tear down anyone who chooses to follow through on an idea, rather than just sit around and watch reruns of Friends.
Unless your goal is to watch every rerun of Friends. In that case, you can set up a website describing your experiences of watching Friends during all the different times it is shown. Then you can get Slashdotted.
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Don't cross the streams!
When you get down to it, angle measure in integers refers to radians. At 2 * pi radians all the way around the earth, there aren't *that* many intersections of integers.
But do people living at an intersection even know that. It doesn't look like anyone makes a point of it.
Know your pads. One time pad: good for cryptography. Two timing pad: where to take your mistress.
Your next project will be to shake hands of everybody in the world in alphabetic order. Start with your own town as a pilot study.