Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]

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Re: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]

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opusthepenguin wrote: Wed Apr 25, 2018 5:59 pm
alietr wrote: Wed Apr 25, 2018 4:38 pm
billiej wrote: Wed Apr 25, 2018 4:16 pm
DBear wrote: Wed Apr 25, 2018 1:18 pm Another one who thought the FJ was horribly written. I thought they wanted two different designations. I had the equator for the first one, so I ended up writing "What is 0 degrees latitude & longitude"?. Honestly, if they just had one item, I would've had it.
I had the same thought and wrote down the exact same thing!
Be tough to put a marker there.

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Be even tougher to KEEP it there!
And yet I heard somewhere (I can find easily but no time at the moment) that there is a weather buoy stationed there.
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Re: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]

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dhkendall wrote: Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:14 am
opusthepenguin wrote: Wed Apr 25, 2018 5:59 pm
alietr wrote: Wed Apr 25, 2018 4:38 pm
billiej wrote: Wed Apr 25, 2018 4:16 pm
DBear wrote: Wed Apr 25, 2018 1:18 pm Another one who thought the FJ was horribly written. I thought they wanted two different designations. I had the equator for the first one, so I ended up writing "What is 0 degrees latitude & longitude"?. Honestly, if they just had one item, I would've had it.
I had the same thought and wrote down the exact same thing!
Be tough to put a marker there.
Be even tougher to KEEP it there!
And yet I heard somewhere (I can find easily but no time at the moment) that there is a weather buoy stationed there.
It would appear you're right:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=13010

And it shows up on PIRATA's map:

https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/gtmba/pirata-array-map
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alietr wrote: Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:20 am
dhkendall wrote: Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:14 am And yet I heard somewhere (I can find easily but no time at the moment) that there is a weather buoy stationed there.
It would appear you're right:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=13010

And it shows up on PIRATA's map:

https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/gtmba/pirata-array-map
Cool! So how do they keep it there? Is it attached to a cable that's anchored in the ocean floor?
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opusthepenguin wrote: Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:49 am
alietr wrote: Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:20 am
dhkendall wrote: Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:14 am And yet I heard somewhere (I can find easily but no time at the moment) that there is a weather buoy stationed there.
It would appear you're right:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=13010

And it shows up on PIRATA's map:

https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/gtmba/pirata-array-map
Cool! So how do they keep it there? Is it attached to a cable that's anchored in the ocean floor?
Yup. They're anchored.
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dhkendall wrote: Wed Apr 25, 2018 11:37 am
Bamaman wrote: Tue Apr 24, 2018 5:56 pm One place claiming to be the equator doesn’t make sense to me. I said the source of the Nile.

I have a friend who was a missionary in Uganda. She posted a picture of her on Facebook with her and an Ugandan gentleman standing on the equator. There was this structure of a circle with a line through the middle and they were on opposite sides.
Probably where this video/trickery was taped.
Apparently that video is bunk - the Coriolis effect works on a large scale, but is negligible on a small scale, compared to how much, say, that divider that he sticks into the water affects the way the water drains.

https://thepointsguy.com/2017/07/travel ... rds/water/
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I figured that the equator was the only thing that the final could have been - a geographic "designation" sort of suggested that it wasn't any particular landmark or border. I actually thought about "center of Africa" but figured that was a bit too obscure, and the Prime Meridian doesn't go over the eastern half of Africa.
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went with great rift valley for final jeopardy
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teapot37 wrote: Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:15 am
bbird wrote: Tue Apr 24, 2018 10:56 pm I'm a lifelong Ohioan and couldn't think of any official state fruit, although I knew our state beverage was tomato juice... and that picture surely wasn't a tomato! Apparently in 2009 the tomato did in fact become our state fruit, while the pawpaw became the state "native fruit." I didn't even know such a thing grew here; I'd only ever heard pawpaw as another name for the papaya. It appears to be more of a southeast Ohio thing.

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The pawpaw is the largest fruit that is native to North America. (That was a question at a trivia night I went to a while ago and I've never forgotten it.)
but aren't pumpkins native to north america and aren't they also fruit?
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35 right.

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My first thought was the center of Africa, but I remembered seeing photos of several equator markers. Despite not being sure exactly what part of Africa the line goes through, it felt like a good guess.
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