rafry@ozemail.com.au wrote: >Yeah, but once again, what's height above sea level? If I go from Mir to the South Pole, sea level is a different distance from the center of the planet. Since the world is *not* a perfect sphere, again, what do you call sea level when you've moved to a different latitude? How do I tell that (for example) the mountains of Amotrall are 10,000 units tall while those of Mir are 10,005? You can't use Trigonometry to measure height if you don't have an identical base to measure /from/! > > > How do we know that Celandra's not a perfect sphere? In any event, I can't see as it really matters. The Cedonians are more concerned about relative than absolute measurements anyway. When they try to determine elevations, it's usually for the purpose of planning the route of an aqueduct, where the important thing is the difference in elevation between two points, not the actual elevation. Andrew >Andrew Janssen wrote: > > >>rafry@ozemail.com.au wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>Regarding elevation, that can be hard to measure. What are you measuring? Mean sea level is 15 miles further from the center of the Earth at the Equator than at the poles (I may be off by a factor of two here, in the case of Earth), and depending on geometry, that could be well under water at high tide. I'm assuming Celandra knows the world to be round, but that's probably not even universal. (And given magick, it may not even be universally true!) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>In Cedonia's case, an early Emperor decreed the sea-level mark by fiat. >>He pointed to a spot on the beach and said, measure everything relative >>to that spot. Ahh, the good old days. ;) >> >> >> >> >>>If you measure by air pressure, then things like the height of mountains changes depending on weather and time of day. Has Celandra had its Euclid? If not, using triangles to measure the height of any feature is not guaranteed to be known. >>> >>> >>> > >This message was sent through MyMail http://www.mymail.com.au > > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net.
