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11-19-2005, 06:18 PM
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Re: Geography trivia
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maybe i'm being dense, but how is alaska the farthest east? [/ QUOTE ] It has a couple of islands west of the International Date Line, which makes them the farthest points East in the U.S. 
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11-19-2005, 07:01 PM
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Re: Geography trivia
I have to disagree with this logic completely. Alaska is east of those islands and in that same way maine is east of alaska. Its not really a trick question so much as its a stupid question because direction is relative.
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11-19-2005, 07:44 PM
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Re: Geography trivia
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I have to disagree with this logic completely. Alaska is east of those islands and in that same way maine is east of alaska. Its not really a trick question so much as its a stupid question because direction is relative. [/ QUOTE ] Direction is only sort of relative. Just like you cannot go north from the north pole, you cannot go east from the International Dateline. Part of Alaska is REAL close to the dateline, so nothing can be farther east. Hope this makes sense. Josh
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11-19-2005, 08:23 PM
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Re: Geography trivia
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[ QUOTE ] I have to disagree with this logic completely. Alaska is east of those islands and in that same way maine is east of alaska. Its not really a trick question so much as its a stupid question because direction is relative. [/ QUOTE ] Direction is only sort of relative. Just like you cannot go north from the north pole, you cannot go east from the International Dateline. Part of Alaska is REAL close to the dateline, so nothing can be farther east. Hope this makes sense. Josh [/ QUOTE ] no matter how much you hope, nonsense can never make sense.
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11-20-2005, 03:45 AM
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Re: Geography trivia
you clearly can go east on the international dateline, you cant compare a line to a pole, come on, if thats the best you got then your answer is clearly wrong.
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11-20-2005, 04:24 AM
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Re: Geography trivia
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I have to disagree with this logic completely. Alaska is east of those islands and in that same way maine is east of alaska. Its not really a trick question so much as its a stupid question because direction is relative. [/ QUOTE ] if you think about it, any city is east of another city, one just takes a lot longer. to differentiate (truly) we use the IDL, so if we cut a lin where the IDL was and laid it out cartesian style, alaska would in fact be the farthest right, or east :P
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#7
11-20-2005, 04:27 AM
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Re: Geography trivia
its an arbitrary line, I think its easy to distinguish. If something is x miles east of a place and x +1000 miles west of it. Then it is clearly east of the place. This doesnt change with an imaginary line.
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