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From: Karel Thoenissen <thoenissen@hello.nl>
Subject: Re: Geography (was: JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co)
Date: 2000/02/02
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Ted Dennison schreef:

> In article <38972EA0.D8BE3932@hello.nl>,
>   Karel Thoenissen <thoenissen@hello.nl> wrote:
> > Ted Dennison schreef:
> > > > Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com> a �crit dans le message :

> > > > The Ariane5 launch pad is on the east side of south-america, and
> > > > since rockets are always fired eastbound, there was really no risk
> > >
> > > Hoboy, you stepped in it this time. Now you're going to get all
> > > sorts of flames from Falkland Islanders...
> >
> > Buy a map.
>
> No need to. When someone such as yourself needs correcting, there are
> web-based maps such as MapQuest I can point them to. For example, this
> nifty one I just generated shows the Falkland Islands:

No amount of weblinks can mask your ignorance. The Falklands are about 6300
km to the south of Kourou, Guayana, France (!). I mean 'south' when I write
'south', not 'south-east', not even 'south-south-east'.

Kourou:     5.09 N   52.39 W
Falklands: 51.45 S   59.00 W

> I'm not sure how long the link stays good. But if you see it, note the
> large body of land just to the West. That's South America. In case the
> source of your confusion was actually the meaning of the term "eastbound",
> I don't need to buy a dictionary either, as I can point you to the webster
> definition at:

> http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster?isindex=eastbound&method=
> exact which states:
>    eastbound adj : moving toward the east; "eastbound trains" [syn:
> {eastward}]

Thanks for pointing this out. It saves me from explaining what southbound
means.

Perhaps Latin-America is larger than you thought (-8

--

Groeten, Karel Th�nissen