Comments - The MEASURE of ALL THINGS - Gaia Community2024-03-29T01:17:30Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A15603&xn_auth=noALL of which speaks volumes…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2022-05-18:5313775:Comment:1290492022-05-18T08:45:33.226ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p>ALL of which speaks volumes, in <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>consideration</strong></em></span> of Buckminster Fuller's</p>
<p>IDEAS pertaining to <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/in-the-context-of-my-own-understanding-of" rel="noopener" target="_blank">POINT, LINE,…</a></strong></p>
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<p>ALL of which speaks volumes, in <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>consideration</strong></em></span> of Buckminster Fuller's</p>
<p>IDEAS pertaining to <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/in-the-context-of-my-own-understanding-of" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POINT, LINE, SURFACE</a></strong> and his concepts with</p>
<p>regard <span style="font-size: 13px;">to and </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">respect for his</span> <strong style="font-size: 13px;">concept of <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/in-the-context-of-my-own-understanding-of" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VECTOR EQUILIBRIUM</a></strong></p>
<p><br/><strong>The[LIGHT] of POINT LINE SURFACE VECTOR EQUALIBRIAN<br/><br/><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10898096299?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10898096299?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><br/></strong></p> TIME waits for no man/woman …tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-11-25:5313775:Comment:158962013-11-25T10:14:30.980ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/tempus-fugit-augebitur-scientia" rel="noopener" target="_blank">TIME waits for no man/woman</a> </strong>and any farmer, gardener, horticulturist</p>
<p>or allotmenteer, will confirm that NATURE only gives back that which</p>
<p>HumanKIND puts in, in the very first place. Homo sapiens sapiens has</p>
<p>sought to establish its geophysical position, wherever that might be,</p>
<p>within the confines of the biosphere of…</p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/tempus-fugit-augebitur-scientia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TIME waits for no man/woman</a> </strong>and any farmer, gardener, horticulturist</p>
<p>or allotmenteer, will confirm that NATURE only gives back that which</p>
<p>HumanKIND puts in, in the very first place. Homo sapiens sapiens has</p>
<p>sought to establish its geophysical position, wherever that might be,</p>
<p>within the confines of the biosphere of planet earth - which we have</p>
<p>in more recent times, come to refer to as "the pale blue dot" within our</p>
<p>cosmos - since the very beginning of our species TIME on Planet Earth.</p>
<p><span>In </span><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography" target="_blank" rel="noopener">geography</a></strong><span>, </span><b>latitude</b><span> (φ) is a </span><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">geographic coordinate</a></strong><span> that specifies</span></p>
<p><span>the </span><span>north–south position of a point on the Earth's surface. Latitude is</span></p>
<p><span>an angle which ranges from </span><span>0° at the </span><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equator" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Equator</a></strong><span> to 90° (North or South)</span></p>
<p><span>at the poles. Lines of constant latitude, or </span><b>parallels</b><span>, </span><span>run east–west as</span></p>
<p><span>circles parallel to the equator. <span>Measurement of latitude requires an</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>understanding of the gravitational field of the Earth, either for setting</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>up </span><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodolite" target="_blank" rel="noopener">theodolites</a></strong><span> or for </span></span><span><span>determination of <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/so-it-has-tran-spired" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GPS satellite orbits</a></strong>. <br/><br/></span></span>The notion of longitude was developed by the <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greek</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eratosthenes</a></strong></p>
<p>(c.276 BC/195 BC) in <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alexandria</a></strong> and <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparchus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hipparchus</a></strong> (c.190 BC/120 BC)</p>
<p>in <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes" title="Rhodes">Rhodes</a></strong> and applied to a large number of cities by the <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">geographer</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strabo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Strabo</a></strong> (63 BC – c.24 AD). But it was <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ptolemy</a></strong> (c. AD 90 – c. AD 168)</p>
<p><strong>who first used a consistent meridian for a world map in his</strong> </p>
<p><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographia_(Ptolemy)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Geographia</a>. Longitude</strong> is an angular measurement, usually expressed</p>
<p>in <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_(angle)" title="Degree (angle)">degrees</a></strong> and denoted by the <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greek letter</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lambda</a></strong> (λ). Meridians</p>
<p>(lines running from the North to South poles connect points with the</p>
<p>same longitude. By convention, one of these, the <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Meridian" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prime Meridian</a></strong>,</p>
<p>which passes through the <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Observatory,_Greenwich" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Royal Observatory, </a></strong><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Observatory,_Greenwich" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greenwich</a></strong>, England,</p>
<p>was allocated the position of zero degrees longitude and subsequently</p>
<p>TIME at that point, has become known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)</p>
<p>or ZULU TIME in accordance with the Z of zero being pronounced as</p>
<p>ZULU during the phonetic AlphaBET process of Air Transport Traffic-</p>
<p>Communications. The longitude of other places is measured as the</p>
<p>angle east or west from the Prime Meridian, ranging from 0° at the</p>
<p>Prime Meridian to +180° eastward and −180° westward. Specifically,</p>
<p>it is the angle between a plane containing the Prime Meridian and</p>
<p>a plane containing the North Pole, South Pole and the location in</p>
<p>question. [This then forms a <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-handed_coordinate_system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">right-handed coordinate</a> </strong><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-handed_coordinate_system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">system</a></strong> with</p>
<p>the <i>z</i> axis (right hand thumb) pointing from the Earth's center toward</p>
<p>the North Pole and the <i>x</i> axis (right hand index finger) extending from</p>
<p>Earth's center through the equator at the Prime Meridian.] If the Earth</p>
<p>were perfectly spherical and homogeneous, then the longitude at a</p>
<p>point would be equal to the angle between a vertical north–south plane</p>
<p>through that point and the plane of the Greenwich meridian. <br/><br/>Everywhere on Earth the vertical north–south plane would contain the</p>
<p>Earth's axis. But the Earth is not homogeneous, and has mountains -</p>
<p>which have gravity and so can shift the vertical plane away from the</p>
<p>Earth's axis. The vertical north–south plane still intersects the plane</p>
<p>of the Greenwich meridian at some angle; that angle is the</p>
<p>astronomical longitude, calculated from star observations. The</p>
<p>longitude shown on maps and GPS devices is the angle between the</p>
<p>Greenwich plane and a not-quite-vertical plane through the point;</p>
<p>the not-quite-vertical plane is perpendicular to the surface of the</p>
<p>spheroid chosen to approximate the Earth's sea-level surface,</p>
<p>rather than perpendicular to the sea-level surface itself.<strong> <br/><br/></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/car-tech/satnav/galileo-how-europe-s-answer-to-gps-will-revolutionise-your-phone-1198327" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GPS is operated and owned by the US</a></strong> and the EU has decided that</p>
<p>being completely reliant on another country's GPS system would leave</p>
<p>them vulnerable if they and the US ever fell out. That's why they're</p>
<p>currently launching the first few of what will, when completed by 2019,</p>
<p>be a 30-strong swarm of satellites. Collectively, they're known as</p>
<p>Galileo - Europe's answer to the GPS. But while Galileo has emerged</p>
<p>largely due to politics, it will offer tangible benefits for you and</p>
<p>your pocket, too. <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/simple-is" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Simply put</a>, it will mean stronger signals and</strong></p>
<p><strong>better coverage, leading to </strong><strong>a <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>much</em> <em>more </em></span></strong><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">accurate</span> and more</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>reliable service</em>.</strong></p>
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