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Date:         Thu, 4 Jul 2013 12:12:53 -0700
Reply-To:     Scott Ohana <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Scott Ohana <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Organization: Cosmic Reminders
Subject:      Re: Happy Fourth!
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <vanagon%2013070414310963@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
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And American Somoa is ......? you'd never know it .. calling there is like calling anywhere in the US. Time wise, it's 4 hours before the West Coast, but it's the next day, something like that.

On 7/4/2013 11:30 AM, David Beierl wrote: > At 12:54 PM 7/4/2013, Alistair Bell wrote: >> Most westerly, HI members. > > Southernmost point of Hawaii is just shy of 19° North. > https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=18.91094,-155.681135&spn=0.002948,0.004823&sll=29.548372,-90.682526&sspn=0.347053,0.617294&t=h&z=18 > > > > Southernmost point of Texas is about 415 nautical miles further north. > https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=25.826162,-97.385216&spn=0.179547,0.308647&sll=29.548372,-90.682526&sspn=0.347053,0.617294&t=h&z=12 > > > But Key West, Florida is only 338 nautical miles north, still a > respectable margin. > https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=24.544625,-81.807461&spn=0.090723,0.154324&sll=29.548372,-90.682526&sspn=0.347053,0.617294&t=h&z=13 > > > But Puerto Rico's southern point is sixty nautical miles south of > Hawaii's. > https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=17.926884,-66.925707&spn=0.023723,0.038581&sll=29.548372,-90.682526&sspn=0.347053,0.617294&t=h&z=15 > > > And Guam is another 280 nm south of Puerto Rico. > https://maps.google.com/maps?q=guam&hl=en&ll=13.23794,144.649086&spn=0.048543,0.077162&sll=17.929498,-66.927681&sspn=0.047446,0.077162&t=h&hnear=Guam&z=14 > > > Nautical miles are easy because they're sixty per degree of latitude. > People who favor statute miles can apply a factor of 6080/5280, or for > kilometers use 6080/3281. For smoots use 6080/5.5833....** > > **No immediate relation to Senator Smoot so far as I know. > > Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.) > Is planning a ban on smut > Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. > And his reverent occiput. > Smite. Smoot, smite for Ut., > Grit your molars and do your dut., > Gird up your l--ns, > Smite h-p and th-gh, > We'll all be Kansas > By and By. > > -- Ogden Nash, "Invocation," 1931 > > > Yrs, > d >


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