Earth Sandwich 158
yourhotneighbor writes "If you haven't seen Ze Frank's hilarious videoblog, it's worth checking out. A few weeks ago he challenged visitors to create an "Earth Sandwich" where two pieces of bread are placed exactly opposite each other on the globe. Google mashups showing what's on the opposite side of the Earth and a live GeoRSS-based bread gallery were provided. A piece on NPR this Saturday details the concept and a team from New Zealand and Spain completed the challenge. Then on Friday he allowed his show to be written by his viewers who battled out 2,000+ script revisions in a Wiki. Sunday's New York Times describes the results."
Fantastic.. (Score:3, Funny)
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You may joke, but considering it's an Earth sandwich; Al Roker would be eating you too.
In Communist Russia, you would be eating Al Roker too!
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Direct link to article (Score:3, Informative)
condiments (Score:2, Funny)
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Mashup (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Mashup (Score:5, Funny)
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Hey Farva... (Score:3, Funny)
Farva: You mean a mashup?
Mac: *Offers gun to Anonymous Coward*
Re:Hey Farva... (Score:2)
you went there...
liter cola!
Not really... (Score:2, Informative)
there is an old russian joke... (Score:5, Informative)
an elephant steps onto a slice of bread, puts a slice of bread on his back, looks in the mirror and sais:
- gosh, that's one big sandwitch!
Re:there is an old russian joke... (Score:1)
Re:there is an old russian joke... (Score:5, Funny)
a slice of bread steps onto an elephant, puts a back on his slice of bread, mirror looks in and says:
- big sandwitch, that's one gosh !
Re:there is an old russian joke... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:there is an old russian joke... (Score:2)
http://www.anikdot.ru/joke-pics-4975.html [anikdot.ru]
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Re:there is an old russian joke... (Score:2)
An elephant rolls around in flour, then looks at himself in the mirror and proclaims: "damn, that's one hell of a dumpling!"
yes, it sounds retarded, but you kind of have to be russian to understand the humor.
Re:there is an old russian joke... (Score:2)
- gosh, that's one big sandwitch!
After hearing that joke, your signature suddenly seems less insightful.
Ironic.
M-
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Oblig. Song (Score:4, Funny)
I've got the whoooole world in my sandwich!"
interesting results.... (Score:5, Funny)
Need a boat (Score:1)
Re:Need a boat (Score:3, Informative)
You're really better off doing that anyway, to avoid having to dig through the solid iron in the center. That stuff can wreak havok on a shovel.
Tropical Fruitness (Score:2)
So if a team from Hawaii and Botswana did this I suppose it would have to have a pineapple ring on it as well. If China and Argentina did it, would would it be garnished with? Dirt?
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Next week: Earth Soup (Score:2)
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But what about the tetrahedron? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:But what about the tetrahedron? (Score:5, Funny)
Then again, if you're the type of person who likes the crusts cut off their sandwiches, then I guess Barr's work takes the... erm, cake.
On the down side of the sandwich, of course, is the fact that it may have have awakened the Devourer of Worlds, Cthulhu. Nothing like a nice sandwich to go with your galactic soup, I always say.
Re:But what about the tetrahedron? (Score:2)
You're the Anti-Crust? (with apologies to Scott Adams)
Murphy's Law (Score:2)
So if you drop a piece of buttered bread in this case, will it always fall buttered-side down, since your chances are proportional to the value of the Earth?
Or not, since that would be a good thing in this case?
Or do you need to stand on a carpet to do this?
Must go. My head a-splode.
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Re:Murphy's Law (Score:5, Interesting)
Their final experiment involved dropping a vertically-held slice of bread from the roof of their building. This is a great set-up--if you routinely eat your breakfast toast on the roof of a warehouse.
Strangely, they actually built the perfect apparatus for testing Murphy's Law, if memory serves designed by Adam, but for some reason didn't use it for the final test. This set-up involved the slice of bread on a table top, pushed slowly over the edge until it was far enough off to tumble down.
Scientific American had an in depth article on Murphy's Law about 7 years ago. It was basically proved the toast-landing-butter-side-down phenomenon was tied to the fundamental constants of the universe, and for any bipedal species evolving on any planet, toast will always tend to land top-side down. The only way around it is to butter the bottom of your toast.
Or move to another universe.
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And, I would imagine, more likely to splat up against the wall, butter side in.
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The only thing this shows... (Score:2, Insightful)
Including me for reading and posting to this article.
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I suppose this would be a great way to find out where to go to get as far as possible from the in-laws/parents/ex/other.
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Mama Mia! (Score:1)
I do not believe in no antipodes (Score:1)
Thats why (Score:3, Funny)
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Two words..... (Score:3, Funny)
Are we in it? (Score:2)
Geocaching (Score:2)
Not that difficult (Score:2)
Ha! (Score:4, Funny)
Reminds of the fast talking guy who used to pitch Micro Machines.
The only thing larger... (Score:2)
Supersize it please. I want a Uranus sandwich! (Score:2)
SO if I wanted to dig to China... (Score:2, Funny)
map of possible antipodal land locations (Score:2)
I remember a story a while ago
I have no andipodal land, you insensitive clod (Score:2)
I am so disillusioned (Score:2)
PS: First person that corrects me by saying he corrected himself by saying it would only melt to the center gets a slap. It was the name of the freaking movie for fsck sake.
Ok .. for the next trick (Score:2)
Where's the GeoRSS feed? (Score:3, Informative)
The first place to start is on georss.org, but you can also read the buzzy OGC press release [opengeospatial.org]. From which you'll learn: "A number of organizations have already implemented GeoRSS in open source and commercial mapping, blogging and other software products. Yahoo and Microsoft have expressed interest. Raj Singh, Director of OGC's Interoperability Programs and one of the original team that created GeoRSS explains why, "We designed GeoRSS to be easily implemented in software. Once GeoRSS is part of an application, it allows just about anyone to point a GeoRSS enabled feed at GeoRSS enabled software and instantly make a map.""
But this doesn't tell you what GeoRSS is and why the story's summary is misleading. You can read this article about GeoRSS and read more about the georss standard woes here [slashgeo.org].
GeoRSS is geospatially-aware RSS. There is a lot of applications, see the links above, like geotagging news items or sensors or podcasts or... I haven't seen any georss in the links above, only mashups and funny pictures. (maybe I should look harder?
You can't get to China from here... (Score:2, Funny)
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China? (Score:2, Funny)
Thanks for 'what if earth were a sandwich' I now know I'd come out in the middle of the ocean, and i'd have to live in Argentina for her to be right.
Wow. (Score:3, Funny)
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use the poles luke (Score:2, Funny)
First in United States (Score:2, Funny)
hindsight (Score:2)
Re:Oh boy... (Score:1, Informative)
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Seriously, at this scale it's not really an issue. Especially if you're willing to consider the
Earth's ellipsoid symmetric across the equator.
Re:Oh boy... (Score:2)
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Do you know what WGS84 is, who created it, and why?
Re:Oh boy... (Score:2)
Nobody's going to be using this thing to pinpoint the exact location of a trans-terran tunnel;
particularly given the problem of crossing the core, only chords and not diameters are appropriate.
Re:Oh boy... (Score:2)
It really doesn't matter. But for those that don't know.. the government does care about being very very close when it comes to the Earth. Much closer than anyone else.
Re:Oh boy... (Score:2)
Clearly governments care see: GPS, Gallileo, GLASNOS, etc.
More interesting topics of discussion are:
How smoothly the interface works if you zoom all the way out.
The resizing of the scale bar as you scroll N-S
P.S> The Earth is not, in fact, a sandwich. Though it may soon be demolished
to make way for a hyperpace bypass.
Re:Oh boy... (Score:4, Funny)
I think you'll also find that a vast majority of the Earth's goverments couldn't care less about precision in measurements of the Earth.
But thank you for introducing pedantry into a discussion of Earth sandwiches. Have a nice day.
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Hope this helps, and good luck with your therapy!
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It uses longitude and latitude, which assume the Earth is a sphere.
Not true: there are actually several types of latitude and longitude. The most common type (used by most maps) is Geodetic latitude and longitude [wikipedia.org], which does take into account the oblate [wikipedia.org] shape of the Earth. What you are talking about would be geocentric latitude and longitude; in reality pretty much everybody prefers and uses geodetic.
There are a lot of interesting problems in the area of defining coordinate systems for maps and navigation. Reading about WGS84 [wikipedia.org] would be a good place to start learning more.
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Nice idea, But... (Score:2, Funny)
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Sorry if that got covered in the article, I didn't get a chance to read it all over yet.
Re:What's next? (Score:2)
Re:Don't Bother Watching the Video (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Experiment link (Score:2)
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But anyway, here's the original 2-ch thread that inspired Densha Otoko:
http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milkyway-Aquarius/7075/ tr [geocities.co.jp]