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In regard to the puzzle Herbert has set for us (and in the same spirit, I
think) does anyone know where the whirling dervishes were trying to go?
Herbert wrote: "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?"
Bruce
