rogerw@cisco.com (Roger M. Wilcox) wrote: >In article <O1iblelgYjV9079yn@calvados.apna.org.au> madhudvisa@krishna.org (Madhudvisa) writes: >> >> As for diametrically opposite points, remember for this exercise we >> are talking about a flat plate not a sphere. For our model to find >> the diametrically opposite point you start at the original point >> and travel through the centre (which we are now taking as the North >> Pole) for the distance of the radius of the circle. If it is midday >> at our original point it will be midnight at the opposite point. So >> now we have opposite points for everything except the North Pole -- >> the opposite point is not a point but it is the circumference of >> the circle. > [snip] >> to flatten out the Northern Hemisphere and just let the Southern >> bits stick out over the edges.. ie: South Africa and South America >> just stick out as we have observed them and you put Australia out >> there somewhere, throw in a few little islands and you've got it. This was an exercise in lateral thinking... I thought everyone understood that by now. After all the original posting did start with "Just imagine..." (the original article is so old... you must have a serious problem with your newsfeed! :-) Thank you. Hare Krishna! Madhudvisa dasa (madhudvisa@krishna.org) /sudarsana All glories to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada!
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