American eating challenge

[RainLover]

I guess you have never travelled to the northern hemisphere. The relationship of the Sun's azimuth to East and West is reversed compared to the southern hemisphere.

Galaxiom. I have no idea what you are talking about here. Isn't an Azimuth an angle to something high in the sky or something like that.

No matter what you say, how you say it or who you quote. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west in both north and south hemispheres.

 

[Brianwarnock]

Galaxiom. I have no idea what you are talking about here. Isn't an Azimuth an angle to something high in the sky or something like that.

No matter what you say, how you say it or who you quote. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west in both north and south hemispheres.

Here, across the middle part of the day just to stop you nitpicking, if I stand with my back to the sun West is on my left, down there East is on my left.

Brian

 

[Brianwarnock]

Also nobody says you have to see both events - sun rising and setting - in one place without moving.

You did, and without that criteria it all becomes pointless.

Brian

 

[Libre]

You did, and without that criteria it all becomes pointless.

Brian

Absolutely right Brian.
Without that criterion (not criteria, which is the plural and would then be "those criteria") it all becomes pointless - that criterion being a reasonably intellectually honest person, with whom to debate.
Did you really think that Panama is a quarter of an inch wide, as it appears on a map, and that one could see both coasts from the same position? You do know there are jungles and mountains separating the coasts in Panama? Do you know anything about the building of the canal, how long it really is, that there are locks that raise ships up to a lake in the mountains that they sail across, and locks on the other side of the lake that Lower those ships again - and finally, that Panama is the only country in the world where the sun rises over the Pacific and sets in the Atlantic, as I said, but never said you could see this from a single point. The very idea is absurd. Those teachers you decided were so misinformed might actually have had something to teach you. Maybe you should consider repeating those grades.
No offense - but it really is pointless to continue this debate.
Nighty night.

 

[Galaxiom]

Panama is the only country in the world where the sun rises over the Pacific and sets in the Atlantic, as I said, but never said you could see this from a single point..

Well think again because there is at least one other.

Edit: Make that at least two other countries.

 

[Dick7Access]

I have never been in Panama, but I had a good steak in Costa Rica, is that close enough?

 

[Brianwarnock]

I feel that Libre's posts to me are bordering on the offensive but before he gets too high and mighty he should read what he wrote.

Another thing (slightly unrelated): there is one place on the Earth; one single solitary place - where you can see the sun rise over the Pacific Ocean and set on the Atlantic.
Do you know where this place is (without googling)?
I'm sure that quite a few forum members must know this.
Still, it is rather interesting.
So where the heck is this place?
Anybody...

Oh and I still say it is the Caribbean Sea else I have swam in the Atlantic off the East coast of Spain.

Brian

 

[Brianwarnock]

I have never been in Panama, but I had a good steak in Costa Rica, is that close enough?

LOL did it hang over the plate into both oceans.

Brian

 

[Galaxiom]

LOL did it hang over the plate into both oceans.

Or perhaps across the tectonic plate for the truly ambitious? (Apologies for the platitudes.)

BTW I am up to three countries which include locations able to see the Sun set across the Atlantic and rise across the Pacific.

 

[Libre]

All anybody knows - or think they know - are only things that others have told them. Even if they have verified this knowledge themselves -heard it from a misinformed teacher, or read it in a book, or googled it, or watched the sun rise while holding a compass - they are still relying on assumptions, operating with incomplete information, and standing on a shakey foundation of contradictory ideas and opinions of others.
How do we really know that a compass always points to the north? DOES a compass always point north? WHAT is NORTH? Why, it's the direction of the North Pole - right?
None of us really know Jack Sh!t, now do we?
Brian - don't tweak my nose and then get bent out of shape when I tweak back. That's how wars get started.

 

[GSSDevelopment]

How about those American-sized portions of steak, huh? Crazy!

Do other countries offer all-you-can-eat buffets like the US does? And if so, do people go there and eat until they have to waddle out?

 

[Libre]

Look, we Yanks are big eaters, okay? Got a problem with that?
An English breakfast: 1 egg and a "rasher" of bacon - which is 1 strip.
Wouldn't fill a cavity here.

 

[RainLover]

All anybody knows - or think they know - are only things that others have told them. Even if they have verified this knowledge themselves -heard it from a misinformed teacher, or read it in a book, or googled it, or watched the sun rise while holding a compass - they are still relying on assumptions, operating with incomplete information, and standing on a shakey foundation of contradictory ideas and opinions of others.
How do we really know that a compass always points to the north? DOES a compass always point north? WHAT is NORTH? Why, it's the direction of the North Pole - right?
None of us really know Jack Sh!t, now do we?
Brian - don't tweak my nose and then get bent out of shape when I tweak back. That's how wars get started.

Libre

I don't know what school you went to but I learnt when I was about 10 years old that a compass usually points North but not always. I later learnt that this was magnetic North not true North which is the top of the globe or better known as the North Pole.
If this were not true then I think Planes would be falling out of the sky because they couldn't find their airport.

 

[RainLover]

This seeing the sun rise and then set over different oceans question.

Is the location where one might stand still and merely do a 180 degree turn.

Or is it a place or country like Australia or Hawaii.

 

[Dick7Access]

Libre

I don't know what school you went to but I learnt when I was about 10 years old that a compass usually points North but not always. I later learnt that this was magnetic North not true North which is the top of the globe or better known as the North Pole.
If this were not true then I think Planes would be falling out of the sky because they couldn't find their airport.

Southwest Airlines Plane Lands At Wrong Airport, Almost Careens Off Cliff

http://www.forbes.com/sites/grantma...ds-at-wrong-airport-almost-careens-off-cliff/

 

[RainLover]

Southwest Airlines Plane Lands At Wrong Airport, Almost Careens Off Cliff

http://www.forbes.com/sites/grantma...ds-at-wrong-airport-almost-careens-off-cliff/

Yes

I heard about that on my wireless.

 

[Dick7Access]

How about those American-sized portions of steak, huh? Crazy!

Do other countries offer all-you-can-eat buffets like the US does? And if so, do people go there and eat until they have to waddle out?

Here is the secret about eating AYCE buffets. Take just a little bit of three or four kinds of food. If needed or desired go back for a second plate, again only a little bit of three or four kinds of food.

Ps. In theory this works????
In ME, I don't want to talk about it!!!!

 

[Dick7Access]

Look, we Yanks are big eaters, okay? Got a problem with that?
An English breakfast: 1 egg and a "rasher" of bacon - which is 1 strip.
Wouldn't fill a cavity here.

Libre,
That's "awful" big brush your using. I am as "Yank" as you can get, I eat too much and don't work.
On that note, does anybody know what an "Awful Awful" is?
I will bet Pat Hartman does.

 

[Libre]

This seeing the sun rise and then set over different oceans question.

Is the location where one might stand still and merely do a 180 degree turn.

Or is it a place or country like Australia or Hawaii.

Rain - I don't know if you've been following this thread, but the stated answer on the sites I've looked at is Panama. It is not about turning 180 degrees because it is not related to the observer's orientation. It is due to the unusual shape of the Isthmus of Panama, and it's easier to see what I'm talking about if you google Panama and look at how it sits in the ocean.
Further, a compass should point at magnetic north, rather than true north, but a compass can get out of calibration for a variety of reasons and wind up pointing in any direction at all. Bought a compass for my car (before GPS) and the "noise" from the car's mass - or electronics - or something, made the needle spin like the Wheel of Fortune. So you can't always trust a compass.
Lastly - I've come to the conclusion that I will try in the future to refrain from defending any particular point of view, since neither I nor anyone else on the planet can be reasonbly certain about ANYTHING. My motto from now on is, the Best conviction is NO conviction. (That goes for defendants on trial as well as everyone else).

 

[Brianwarnock]

Libre, how did I tweak your nose? I admitted that I had not read your first post properly and asked for the location of the one and only place as you put it, after that you took the hump, got personal and only talked vaguely, not even given any references to back your changing criteria.

Brian