Visiting Every Latitude and Longitude Intersection

Visiting Every Latitude and Longitude Intersection 265

Posted by Hemos on Monday July 26, 2004 @07:45PM from the interesting-projects dept.

Kevin A. Pieckiel writes "The Degree Confluence Project's goal is to visit every latitude and logitude degree integer intersection in the world and journal it on this web site. An excerpt: 'The project is an organized sampling of the world. There is a confluence within 49 miles (79 km) of you if you're on the surface of Earth. We've discounted confluences in the oceans and some near the poles, but there are still 12,889 to be found.' A neat project, indeed." As Timothy noted, I've posted before, and in Slashback form; a while back.

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"A neat project, indeed." ?! (Score:2, Funny)

by nusratt ( 751548 ) writes: on Monday July 26, 2004 @07:51PM (#9807033) Journal

Why?
How is this project any more interesting or useful than a confluence of any other human-specified arbitrary classification, e.g. visiting every peak who altitude in cubits is a prime number?

I wonder if... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday July 26, 2004 @07:51PM (#9807036)

half way through this project this guys will wonder, "why are we doing this again?"

Re:Longitude... (Score:5, Funny)

by ackthpt ( 218170 ) * writes: on Monday July 26, 2004 @07:53PM (#9807050) Homepage Journal

Speaking of organized samplings... if these guys weren't total nerds, they could have a girlfriend at each confluence! Now *that's* a lot of longitude!
Assuming the girls know about the extra relationships, and are ok with it, that's a lot of latitude!

Yes, but... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday July 26, 2004 @07:54PM (#9807052)

Can we get celebrities [slashdot.org] to do the visiting?
Methinks the shark /. jumped this morning just did its own jumping...

Re:I wonder if... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday July 26, 2004 @07:55PM (#9807065)

Maybe they should ask the guy who's visiting each Starbucks [starbuckseverywhere.net] in the country before leaving?

Oh perfect. (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday July 26, 2004 @07:55PM (#9807068)

Random pictures at arbitrary points on the planet.

Sounds just like every other photo blog.

I found them all! (Score:5, Funny)

by Burdell ( 228580 ) writes: on Monday July 26, 2004 @07:55PM (#9807069)

...but there are still 12,889 to be found.
I found every single one of them. They're all right here on my globe.

[Will the] guys will wonder, "why are we doing.... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday July 26, 2004 @07:56PM (#9807077)

[Will the] guys will wonder, "why are we doing this again?"
Yep. Probably around 9 or 10 AM tomorrow when they sober up....

Re:Fun, but.. (Score:4, Funny)

by Short Circuit ( 52384 ) writes: <mikemol@gmail.com> on Monday July 26, 2004 @08:05PM (#9807151) Homepage Journal

I can see it now...

"I was unable to get to 70W by 45N, because there was an Army base there. Update: Someone's knocking on the door."

Excessively Redundant? (Score:3, Funny)

by l0ungeb0y ( 442022 ) writes: on Monday July 26, 2004 @08:07PM (#9807169) Homepage Journal

Hasn't another project [starbucks.com] already acheived this and begun interpolation?

And on top of that, we already have another project to visit all those locations [slashdot.org], which have have been marked with a retail location by the previous project.

So while some redundancy may be a good thing, this sounds like overkill.

49 miles? (Score:3, Funny)

by bcrowell ( 177657 ) writes: on Monday July 26, 2004 @08:57PM (#9807502) Homepage

There is a confluence within 49 miles (79 km) of you if you're on the surface of Earth.
I'm posting from Mars, you insensitive clod!
The worst part is that it's almost impossible to get a first post from here...

Re:Excessively Redundant? (Score:3, Funny)

by Mad Bad Rabbit ( 539142 ) writes: on Monday July 26, 2004 @09:09PM (#9807560)

That's ok, by the end of the decade there'll probably be a Starbucks at every degree confluence, so both projects can neatly overlap.

Radians (Score:3, Funny)

by Kludge ( 13653 ) writes: on Monday July 26, 2004 @09:55PM (#9807829)

This project would be a lot easier if they were working in the more natural units of radians rather than degrees. :)

Re:Well, it doesn't (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday July 26, 2004 @10:38PM (#9808040)

Thanks!

- Osama

Re:What is this, High School? (Score:3, Funny)

by peeping_Thomist ( 66678 ) * writes: on Monday July 26, 2004 @11:04PM (#9808126)

Life is short, go do something with your lives, don't tear down anyone who chooses to follow through on an idea, rather than just sit around and watch reruns of Friends.

Unless your goal is to watch every rerun of Friends. In that case, you can set up a website describing your experiences of watching Friends during all the different times it is shown. Then you can get Slashdotted.

Re:The definition of confluence (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday July 26, 2004 @11:24PM (#9808222)

Don't cross the streams!

Work Smarter Not Harder (Score:2, Funny)

by PingPongBoy ( 303994 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @12:44AM (#9808573)

When you get down to it, angle measure in integers refers to radians. At 2 * pi radians all the way around the earth, there aren't *that* many intersections of integers.

But do people living at an intersection even know that. It doesn't look like anyone makes a point of it.

Next Project (Score:2, Funny)

by Jump ( 135604 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @04:29AM (#9809289)

Your next project will be to shake hands of everybody in the world in alphabetic order. Start with your own town as a pilot study.

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"A neat project, indeed." ?! (Score:2, Funny)

I wonder if... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Longitude... (Score:5, Funny)

Yes, but... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:I wonder if... (Score:2, Funny)

Oh perfect. (Score:3, Funny)

I found them all! (Score:5, Funny)

[Will the] guys will wonder, "why are we doing.... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Fun, but.. (Score:4, Funny)

Excessively Redundant? (Score:3, Funny)

49 miles? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Excessively Redundant? (Score:3, Funny)

Radians (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Well, it doesn't (Score:2, Funny)

Re:What is this, High School? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:The definition of confluence (Score:1, Funny)

Work Smarter Not Harder (Score:2, Funny)

Next Project (Score:2, Funny)

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