Guest EraSeek Posted June 29, 2001 Share Posted June 29, 2001 Check out this interesting little story from the south pole. http://www.garmin.com/whatsNew/adventures/story13.html [This message has been edited by EraSeek (edited 29 June 2001).] Quote Link to comment
Guest PneumaticDeath Posted June 29, 2001 Share Posted June 29, 2001 Why didn't he hide a cache while he was there?!? Okay so maybe it was a little cold. -- Mitch Quote Link to comment
Guest guerroloco Posted July 5, 2001 Share Posted July 5, 2001 There appears to be a problem with the GPS display in the photo. The compass rose on the navigation screen shows N, S, E and W; but, as everyone knows, at the South Pole all directions are North! Quote Link to comment
Guest Alex Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 When you stand at the Pole the latitude will be 90 00.000 S or N. But what will the longitude read????? Quote Link to comment
Guest Markwell Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 f walking about 28 feet (pi*r^2) you could watch the GPS cycle through W001° to W180° and then cycle back down through E180° to E001°. To paraphrase: "All lons lead to pole." Quote Link to comment
Guest ClayJar Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 quote:Originally posted by guerroloco:The compass rose on the navigation screen shows N, S, E and W; but, as everyone knows, at the South Pole all directions are North! Actually, the latitude on the screen is S89d 59m 59.3s, so there still is a defined meaning for the four cardinal directions. You must not have read the article well. Quote Link to comment
Guest PneumaticDeath Posted July 7, 2001 Share Posted July 7, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Markwell:Wow - tough one... I supposed the interesting thing would be to walk in a circle around the pole - maybe about 3 feet away from it - and in the course of walking about 28 feet (pi*r^2) Actually, at a radius of 3 ft., it would be just shy of 19 ft around (2*Pi*r), Pi*r^2 would give you the area of the circle. 28 sq. ft. (the floor space of a medium sized closet.) -- Mitch [This message has been edited by PneumaticDeath (edited 07 July 2001).] Quote Link to comment
Guest PneumaticDeath Posted July 7, 2001 Share Posted July 7, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Markwell:Wow - tough one... I supposed the interesting thing would be to walk in a circle around the pole - maybe about 3 feet away from it - and in the course of walking about 28 feet (pi*r^2) Actually, at a radius of 3 ft., it would be just shy of 19 ft around (2*Pi*r), Pi*r^2 would give you the area of the circle. 28 sq. ft. (the floor space of a medium sized closet.) -- Mitch [This message has been edited by PneumaticDeath (edited 07 July 2001).] Quote Link to comment
Guest Markwell Posted July 7, 2001 Share Posted July 7, 2001 Thanks Pneumatic! And here I claim to be posting cache sites using math clues. Man - I musta been snoozin' when I wrote that one! Quote Link to comment
Guest MountainDiver Posted July 9, 2001 Share Posted July 9, 2001 Did he submit his report to the Degree Confluence folks? ------------------ The MountainDiver N 34 01.649 W084 27.211 "GPS satellites are nice because they can answer two of the three most common questions in my life: "What time is it?" and "Where am I?" If they could also somehow determine whether I have any clean underwear left, the bases would be covered." --- The Brunching Shuttlecocks Quote Link to comment
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