Hi Butch, Thanks for the trick question. I had to use my Google Home Mini to make some enquiries, and, after that, and some contemplation, I get how Alaska is such a star. Smile Really, I should have known, living up here in Canada, where we have all kinds of points west and east, and, of course, north. Smiles
Thanks again, Rod Sent from Outlook for Windows -----Original Message----- From: Talk <talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail....@lists.window-eyes.com> On Behalf Of Butch Bussen via Talk Sent: February 5, 2019 1:44 AM To: David via Talk <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> Cc: Butch Bussen <but...@shellworld.net> Subject: Re: Weather or not issue Good explanation. We had a large globe at kansas school for the blind with raised lines for these lines as well as land and mountains and so forth. I'd love to have that globe, stood on a stand and was I'd guess 3 feet in diameter. Anyhow, as I recall, some times degrees are given in decimals and some times given in degrees minutes and seconds. If I remember right, one minute is one nautical mile which is about a mile and an eighth, Alexa says 6076 feet. This comes out 1.15 mile. This is true at the equater of course as if you go north or south the lines get closer. That is why our counties here in Kansas which are square have jogs in the roads called lines of corection. You can't lay out squares on a round globe. Here is a trivia question I won on the radio when I lived in Vegas. Name the most northern, eastern, western and southern states in the united states. Hawaii, of course is easy for the south one. For the north, it is Alaska for all three. The reason why is Alaska reaches furtherest longitude lines east and west of any other ease or west states. . Hope I haven't bored you all to much. 73 Butch WA0VJR Node 3148 Wallace, ks. _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.window-eyes.com%2Foptions.cgi%2Ftalk-window-eyes.com%2Frod_hutton%2540hotmail.com&data=02%7C01%7C%7C5c37946a36dd41b85e8308d68b35608a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636849458694298912&sdata=bzyg0OOavCVCYm9JZKTIqcgcm9AS9EguTPDH0uhVGj4%3D&reserved=0. For subscription options, visit https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.window-eyes.com%2Flistinfo.cgi%2Ftalk-window-eyes.com&data=02%7C01%7C%7C5c37946a36dd41b85e8308d68b35608a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636849458694298912&sdata=06PP%2F4XQI9ljRLAodb66nIipx3ygju7VXVhQL%2BlOn78%3D&reserved=0 List archives can be found at https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.window-eyes.com%2Fprivate.cgi%2Ftalk-window-eyes.com&data=02%7C01%7C%7C5c37946a36dd41b85e8308d68b35608a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636849458694298912&sdata=PK9rq3LIxI8S6e1fiZlbuGRUEWTHWAxP8hFPbck3go4%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
