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HalfMooner
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Philippines
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 Posted - 09/14/2009 : 09:04:35
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What on Earth? #58: Arrowhead Islands
[Okay, sorry, it's three hours early, but here's the next exercise. This one OUGHT to take some time, anyway. Though I've thought that before, to my chagrin.]
I've placed a yellow push-pin on a point of the ocean in the following images. I've also placed several arrows next to islands.
For one point for each question:
1. What islands are these?
2. What are the precise coordinates (latitude and longitude) of my push-pin?
3. What group of people would find my arrows very significant?
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 09/14/2009 09:39:50
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 09/14/2009 : 11:34:36 [Permalink]
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1.The Cyclades, Santorini archipelago
2.36° 24'52"N 25° 27'53"E
3.The Minoans |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2009 : 20:54:00 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
1.The Cyclades, Santorini archipelago
2.36° 24'52"N 25° 27'53"E
3.The Minoans
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Sorry, no, no, and no. This is somewhere, and something, completely different. Thoughtful guess, though.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 09/14/2009 20:58:03 |
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 09/15/2009 : 00:27:53 [Permalink]
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Mooner....
Naturally, only you here know the coordinates and history of these islands. However, the event and history that I pinpointed actually fits your initial presentation perfectly, even to the apparent location of the caldera. The arrows could denote any type of outflux from a central point
So I did give a correct answer to your questions, even though it was the wrong correct answer. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2009 : 01:20:56 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
So I did give a correct answer to your questions, even though it was the wrong correct answer. |
I thought your guess was a rather clever, even charming, "wrong correct answer." It hadn't occurred to me that my problem might (vaguely) resemble the Santori eruption's tsunami pattern. My arrows have nothing at all to do with even slightly similar events.
No points for wrong correct answers. There really is enough info in what I've given you to get the correct correct answer. Your attempt to pry out from me new clues is revealed as being (thus far) doomed as the Minoans.
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2009 : 07:13:57 [Permalink]
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| Let me hazard a hypothesis: does it have anything to do with Polynesia? |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2009 : 08:23:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
Let me hazard a hypothesis: does it have anything to do with Polynesia?
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Is this Twenty Questions? Look at a map, and tell me.
Seriously, this can be looked at by the written clues I've given, by matching the islands in the images on a globe, and pondering that globe, uh, globally.
People, focus upon the stick-pin, the arrows, and my associated comments in the OP. There's enough, I think, for people to solve this. (It's one of those things that will seem obvious in retrospect.)
Hint # 1: The arrow directions are purely cultural in significance, and geographical (but entirely un-geological) in origin.
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2009 : 08:34:49 [Permalink]
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1. French Polynesia
2. 21deg24'32S 140deg10'09W
3. a>People leaving Mururoa
b> People spreading across the Pacific
Google Earth marks the spot as "Antipode Kaabah", but google can find no reference to such a place. |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
| Edited by - Hawks on 09/15/2009 08:40:52 |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2009 : 08:49:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
1. French Polynesia
2. 21deg24'32S 140deg10'09W
3. a>People leaving Mururoa
b> People spreading across the Pacific
Google Earth marks the spot as "Antipode Kaabah", but google can find no reference to such a place.
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Correct, correct, and wrong (or irrelevant to this problem). Two points for you, Hawks, and you're this close to the key answer!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2009 : 13:09:40 [Permalink]
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Hint # 2:Originally posted by Hawks
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Google Earth marks the spot as "Antipode Kaabah", but google can find no reference to such a place.
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The standings now:- Hal, 4 points
- lorddix, 4 points
- Randy, 3 points
- bngbuck, 2 points
- Hawks, 2 points
- steinhenge, 2 points
(Ties are listed in alphabetical order.)
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 09/15/2009 13:14:56 |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2009 : 14:58:36 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
The arrows indicate the direction a Muslim must face when praying at the various locations.
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Absolutely correct. One point for Dave W.! Nicely done.
My push-pin marks the spot on the globe which is "antipodal" to the Kaaba shrine in Mecca, toward which Muslims pray. A Muslim traveling from island to island in French Polynesia would find him or herself praying in nearly every direction of the compass, depending on which island he or she was kneeling upon.
The present standings, including the two points for Hawks and the one point for Dave W.:- Hal, 4 points
- lorddix, 4 points
- Randy, 3 points
- bngbuck, 2 points
- Hawks, 2 points
- steinhenge, 2 points
- Dave W., 1 point
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2009 : 19:24:45 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by Dave W.
The arrows indicate the direction a Muslim must face when praying at the various locations.
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Absolutely correct. One point for Dave W.! Nicely done.
My push-pin marks the spot on the globe which is "antipodal" to the Kaaba shrine in Mecca, toward which Muslims pray. A Muslim traveling from island to island in French Polynesia would find him or herself praying in nearly every direction of the compass, depending on which island he or she was kneeling upon.
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Oh, so you have to THINK now. I call discrimination. |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2009 : 19:27:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by Dave W.
The arrows indicate the direction a Muslim must face when praying at the various locations.
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Absolutely correct. One point for Dave W.! Nicely done.
My push-pin marks the spot on the globe which is "antipodal" to the Kaaba shrine in Mecca, toward which Muslims pray. A Muslim traveling from island to island in French Polynesia would find him or herself praying in nearly every direction of the compass, depending on which island he or she was kneeling upon.
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Oh, so you have to THINK now. I call discrimination.
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Personally, I wouldn't stand for it.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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WoE # 58: Arrowhead Islands
