Hello Michael.

09 Jan 05 22:55, you wrote to me:

 MD> Hello Roy,

 MD> Saturday January 08 2005, Roy Witt wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

 DC>>>>> You would almost have to have a program that was able to
 DC>>>>> change the north and south referance points:)
 DC>>>>> or superimpose two maps in a way that your two points were
 DC>>>>> in line north to south or south to north.

 GL>>>> That would be an interesting exercise, if for nothing else,
 GL>>>> seeing how it looked like. :)

 GL>>>> You could translate and rotate all the land masses on the globe.
 GL>>>> Just need the data in digital format.

 MD>>> If you happen to do so please don't place Europe near equator. I
 MD>>> hate the heat there.

 RW>> Maybe there's enough room to get it all within the arctic
 RW>> circle...that'd be cool, eh?

 MD> That would be really cool. In both senses. BTW the coldest place is
 MD> not in the pole but in the Oimyakon region in the north east of
 MD> Russia. Though it is inside the arctic circle it is not the extreme
 MD> north, but somewhere near latitude 70ønorth. The average January
 MD> temperature there is -50øC (-58øF) and the minimum temperature was in
 MD> the year 1926 as low as -71.2øC (-96.2øF). It would be interesting to
 MD> visit the place. In January.

I'll stay near the 30th parallel, thanks. I've already had my fill of cold
tempuratures.




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