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From: Jim Thompson (no email)
Date: Wed Nov 05 2003 - 06:04:32 EST
If I had arrived at the North Pole, would I not simply be starting out on a
loxodrome heading south, on a bearing 180 degrees greater than the one I had
arrived on at the North Pole, eventually to arrive at the South Pole?
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~fjones/loxo.html.
I visualized myself travelling on a ship through the North Pole on a
constant bearing. Not vanishing into the ether in my mind, I then I drew
the situation on a sketch map with the North Pole at the center, and the
lines of longitude radiating out from the Pole. I drew my heading as a
straight line entering the Pole at 045 degrees. According to the diagram,
it appears that I would leave the Pole on a heading of 225 degrees.
Jim Thompson
www.jimthompson.net
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:]On Behalf Of Herbert Prinz
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> Subject: Re: The flat earth notion
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> On a spheroidal earth, if you proceed on a rhumb line with
> constant speed, you
> will arrive at a pole after a finite time. You won't be able to
> stop your vessel
> at this very moment, because of your inertia . This raises the puzzling
> question: Where will you be a second after you will have passed
> through the
> pole? Neither Dutton nor Bowditch has the answer.
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