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    GEO Guest

    USGLO MONUMENTS AND OTHERS



    http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.aspx?PID=CX1690

    http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.aspx?PID=CX1839

    Thought I would put in some of the New mexico Marks that I got this last weekend while we were out West.
    I wish I had more time to get the real old ones that are still waiting.
    Maybe next time.


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    GEO Guest
    NEAR CX1889 DEMING SOUTH BASE


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    Geo those are awsome I hope to find some like that soon.
    If your not living life on the edge your taking up too much space!!!!!!


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    GEO Guest

    LITTLE DRIVE

    Thanks ASDude,
    All we need to do is get together and take a little drive close to ya down there.
    You gotta search for the BM's with the ? mark on them.

    Got alot of pictures of many more but do not want to take up bandwidth too much.

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    GEO Guest

    USC&GC GLOSSARY OF TERMS

    GLOSSARY OF TERMS
    Here is the glossary for the terms used.
    http://www.ak.blm.gov/ak920/map_glos.html

    CARTESIAN COORDINATES
    LONGITUDE- -LATTITUDE
    http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CartesianCoordinates.html

    ERROR,ACCURACY AND PRECISION
    http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gc...r/error_f.html

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    GEO those are very interesting links. Its all greek to me. I geuss I'm just not that smart.hahahahahaha
    If your not living life on the edge your taking up too much space!!!!!!


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    GEO Guest

    GREEK

    Well at least you are smart enough to figure out where it all came from anyway....................The Greeks.
    The Greek Alphabet contains 24 letters,and if placed in a circle it makes the Compass with the 15* angle between each.IE. 0*,15*,30*,45*60*75*,90*....to .....180*..... to 270*.....to 360* or 0*.
    I could get deep fast now,but will try and keep it fairly simple.

    http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/prime/...reek/index.asp

    http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/l.../alphabet.html

    ANGULAR MEASUREMENT(ANGLES)

    http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/explain/a...fr/angles.html

    ARISTOTLE, PLATO, SOCRATES,PTOLEMY,COPERNICUS,Were the great mathmaticians who came up with most of the formulae we still use today.

    http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_...Aristotle.html

    http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_...7/Ptolemy.html

    http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_..._Nicolaus.html

    I have read all their works and have studied indept into math.
    I hope this helps.

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    Geezer_Veazey Guest
    Hello, Geo.

    A statement in your "ANGULAR MEASUREMENTS" link stated that the width of the thumb at arms length was approximately 2 degrees. I used that to check out a "rule of thumb" that I learned many years ago - that the sun will travel 4 fingers at arms length in 30 minutes. In other words, when the sun is 4 fingers at arms length above the horizon, it's time to bring in the mule. The sun will set in 30 minutes.

    Well, it turned out to be a pretty good rule of thumb. There are 48 30-minute time periods in one 360 degree rotation of the sun (earth). That divides out to 7.5 degrees per 30 minutes. Four widths of the thumb would be 8 degrees, slightly more than four fingers since the thumb is slightly larger than the fingers.

    Just thought you'd like to know.

    Geezer

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    Wow thats too deep 4 me. I just look at my watch to tell me when to bring in themule. hahahaha wait I don't have a mule.
    If your not living life on the edge your taking up too much space!!!!!!


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    GEO Guest
    Geezer I guess that would be called the rule of THUMB
    I forgot to add Sir Issac Newton.
    http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Newton.html
    What is that Old saying.......sometimes you can know too much.

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