Geohashing Conquers the South Pole 40
New submitter Kjellander writes "Randall, of xkcd fame, and inventor of Geohashing, has commented on the recent successful expedition of a Globalhash less than 1 km from the Amundsen-Scott research station by 5 brave scientists staying there over winter. The last continent has been conquered and many records broken."
No comments? (Score:1)
People must be frantically looking up exactly what "records" were "broken"
Well... it's not like anyone cares... (Score:2)
Now, had he planked, batmanned and plumbked the South Pole, all at the same time...
Winter? (Score:5, Insightful)
It may be cold at the South Pole, but it's Summer there.
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It may be cold at the South Pole, but it's Summer there.
The information would have been here sooner, but it was carried IP over Spheniscidae Carrier, and the polar bears kept eating them.
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Re:Winter? (Score:4, Funny)
Polar bears in Antarctica?
Yet penguins carrying data packets to mainland US is fine, right? That's what you're telling me.
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There are polar bears in the Southern hemisphere and penguins in the northern hemisphere.
True, they're all in zoos... but they exist. Maybe there are polar bears in the South Pole national zoo. I wonder how long till penguins became extinct if someone released a breeding pair of polar bears in antartica.
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Funnily enough, our penguins are the second of that name. The originals (now often referred to as Great Auks) lived in the northern hemisphere, and were eaten by polar bears. Unfortunately, they were also eaten by humans - who drove them to extinction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Auk [wikipedia.org]
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There are polar bears in the Southern hemisphere and penguins in the northern hemisphere.
True, they're all in zoos... but they exist. Maybe there are polar bears in the South Pole national zoo. I wonder how long till penguins became extinct if someone released a breeding pair of polar bears in antartica.
There are zoos in Antarctica?
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Apparently. They're at the National Zoo.
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that they're faster is an established fact, but what's their unladden air speed ?
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But then, African swallows are non-migratory, aren't they? That explains your 100% packet loss.
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Polar bears in Antarctica?
Immigration laws are notoriously weak in Antarctica .
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It may be cold at the South Pole, but it's Summer there.
No winter lasts from mid feb thru mid october at amunseon-scott. I donno anything about the schedule this year specifically, but its almost March... last trip out was probably a couple weeks ago and they're stuck there until almost Halloween. They have limited internet access, so I'm told, would be hilarious if someone there posted in this thread.
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They have limited internet access, so I'm told, would be hilarious if someone there posted in this thread.
Dang its early in the morning here. Of course they have access, or we wouldn't have seen their uploaded picture...
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They have limited internet access, so I'm told, would be hilarious if someone there posted in this thread.
Dang its early in the morning here. Of course they have access, or we wouldn't have seen their uploaded picture...
They have very low bandwidth and only connection when a satellite is overhead so it is very spotty.
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I wonder if the devil from the South Pole can cross-breed with the one that will be discovered by the Russians at lake Vladivostokilokkilakkiooohahhh (or whatever it is called).
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There was a warning on the box in an ancient script that someone translated as "do not open this box or you will die"- we figured we would open it for a lark.
If truth in advertising laws were enforced, that would be on engagement ring boxes.
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There was a warning on the box in an ancient script that someone translated as "do not open this box or you will die"- we figured we would open it for a lark.
If truth in advertising laws were enforced, that would be on engagement ring boxes.
...and religions would have to find some other way to market their product.
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Wouldn't it be on basically every box everywhere?
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There was a warning on the box in an ancient script that someone translated as "do not open this box or you will die"- we figured we would open it for a lark.
If truth in advertising laws were enforced, that would be on engagement ring boxes.
And you found a lark in it?
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It may be cold at the South Pole, but it's Summer there.
No winter lasts from mid feb thru mid october at amunseon-scott. I donno anything about the schedule this year specifically, but its almost March... last trip out was probably a couple weeks ago and they're stuck there until almost Halloween. They have limited internet access, so I'm told, would be hilarious if someone there posted in this thread.
Exactly. It is still light there but the weather is so tough they can't fly in or out. So it is technically winter there already.
Geohashing and Bikes (Score:2)
Geohashing on a Saturday afternoon sounds like the perfect compliment!
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Global Hashing????? (Score:2)
Can someone explain it to me? (Score:2)
What is the advantage of geohashing over longitude + latitude.
Re:Can someone explain it to me? (Score:5, Informative)
geohashing is creating a random lat/long pair based on data that can only be known a little while ahead of time. Take the string "YYYY-MM-DD-#" where # is the opening of the DOW stock exchange, and create a 32bit MD5 checksum of that string. Convert the first 16 bits to decimal 0.XXXXX (convert hex to decimal, prepend 0.####) and the second 16 bits to 0.YYYYY. Now, take your current location, say 37.4215 -122.0855. Well, the location for that day's gathering near you would be at 37.XXXXX by -122.YYYYY. So you can see it isn't really a replacement for latitude and longitude, it's just a way to find a random place to gather.
Globalhashing is nearly the same. Take (180*0.XXXXX)-90 for latitude, (360*0.YYYYY)-180 longitude. Greater than a 70% chance that the day's globalhash will be in the ocean.