Sunday 4 November 2012

Pinpointing the place?

To date all references have been to 53N 0 32/33W.  This formation on 2 June 2012 seems to qualify that and offer a more accurate location.  Rounding to the nearest degree and minute would give us the numbers we have been working with already.

The date seems to corroborate: 2/6/12.  2x3=6, 6x2=12 giving the 32.  If we represent 2 and 6 on a clock they become 10 minutes and 30 minutes.  Add these together and to the 12 gives 52.  The 10 and the 30 give the 40' as well.  That is convenient.  But if we represent the 12 as 60 then that makes a total of 100 minutes.  52°40'45" + 100 minutes is 54°0'45".  That is way off the mark.

If one adds 52+45+40+0+32+10 the result is 179.  2 June 2012 + 179 days is 28 November 2012.  That fits.

All that said, this crop formation makes me uneasy as to date it has been quite clear that 53N and 0 32/33W are the coordinates.  Perhaps it was for ease as they lend themselves more to geometric shapes and only at the last minute do we get precise coordinates.  The date is 2/6/12: 12 is 6+6... That's three 6s, which isn't a good sign.

Another formation from this year seems to explain the difference in coordinates:
If the tramlines represent one degree, then each circle represents 10 minutes.  The upwards tentacles span exactly a tramline width.  Each tentacle downwards represents a minute because 1/60 as a percentage is 1.67.  The lower tentacles stretch across one tramline and then two thirds of a tramline.  This image appears to represent 33 minutes.  The lower ‘diamond’ is amongst the tentacles west of the other: 33 minutes west.

So, that seems to reconcile the difference in the coordinates: there are actually two safety zones, it seems, or one safety zone and these are the extremities.  Personally I prefer the latter.



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