Eleanor McEvoy has a number of lovely songs. Whisper a Prayer to the Moon is beautiful. Great lyric: If I had the powers/I'd give you the stars/the sun and the light/of the moon.
Dark Sun:The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, by Richard Rhodes. discusses the nuclear arms race. Pretty freaking insane.
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I pity the fools who google "Live feeds from Hos" and end up here...
(Except not so much with the pity.) ;)
I actually came here to get that multi-feed link you posted a while back. Thanks for anticipating my needs.
I don't know if this is up your alley or not, but I was watching one particular camera:
http://tinyurl.com/2avea3z
I noticed the Depth values was ~4878, a little less than a mile in feet, so I figured the values were in feet.
I wrote down the N and E coordinates on the display:
N ~10431620
E ~1202805
Assuming those are in feet as well, I decided to put them into radians.
WGS earth radius
a: 6,378,137 meters
b: 6,356,752.3 meters
average = 6367444.65 meters = 20890566.46 feet
Radians
N ~0.499346
E ~0.0575764
Degrees
N ~28.61041
E ~3.2988847
So according to Wikipedia, the DWH was located here when it sank:
28.736667°N 88.386944°W
So you can see my North calculation is basically spot on.
If we take my East calculation and move it 90° West.
86.7011153 W
Which is pretty close.
So do you think Wikipedia is off by about 1.5 degrees, or there's something off with my math?
I also find it interesting that BP's rovers like to think that the east west boundary is in the US.
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