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Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org
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Where does it say that the starting point is also the destination.
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David
Shirley one's "initial destination" is where one is destined to wind up before
complicating factors intervene....
Which would make everyone's initial destination the same: Limbo....r
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Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.
Lobo can sing it, if not speak it:
Me and you and a dog named Boo
Travelin' and livin' off the land
Me and you and a dog named Boo
How I love being a free man.
Anyhoo, I notice my two pugs are snoring loudly
to the rhythm of trip-hop.
With all the "about"s in the trip description, calculation may be the
wrong way to find the answer. But here it is anyway: With each trip
segment being along a great circle, if you want to end on the same
latitude you started at, it should be 27.60472 degrees north.
Starting at that latitude, you end up about 295 miles west of where you
started. You'd be closer to your initial destination if you didn't do
the 200 miles west segment of the trip.
So maybe the thing to do is minimize the distance between start and end
locations, instead of just trying to match the latitude. For that, a
different latitude works best: 48.15168 degrees north. Starting on that
latitude, you end up about 192 miles from the starting point. (SSW-ish)
I made a couple of images showing the path as it appears starting from
those latitudes. Any longitude would work (and finding the rhythmic
longitude might be the next step). I chose the longitude of Orlando for
the starting point, since the first thing I noticed about the 27.60472
latitude line is that it runs through the middle of Florida. (It turns
out that Orlando is about a degree north of it.)
Then for the other image, I lazily kept the same starting longitude
instead of looking for something interesting at 48N.
The images are in kosh.dhis.org:/pub/wayout/ but I don't think they'll
help.
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Alan Curry
If that's the case, the trip doesn't have to culminate in a return to
the starting point, and therefore all my reasoning falls apart.
Nice work; nice pictures. (That's not a hint.)
One thing I can confirm is that the travel is indeed along great
circles. Oh, and the directions are to the nearest forty-five
degrees. And the distances are to the nearest hundred miles (as you
might have guessed).
Michael Hamm
TO Panelist.
Hint: You might be holding a margarita.
Windshield wipers?
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The whistle blowing eight to the bar?
Mark
No, no, no.
By the way, have you heard about the price of oil?
Marimba
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Ray
UK
Not a triangle. A steel drum?
Thank you!
(TO answer: a steel drum band.)
Michael Hamm
TO Panelist
Your Cormo will reach you at Kokomo after stopping at a lot of other
resorts.
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