Quotes About Coordinates

Knowledge of GPS coordinates allowed tanks and mechanized infantry to move quickly, cutting down on the risk of accidents and friendly fire, especially during the first forty-eight hours of the war, when bad weather caused visibility to drop to as little as five meters.

I'd lost the mark on the psychic map that says You Are Here. Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships. We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them.

The essential point is that, although coordinates are a powerful, and sometimes essential, tool in many calculations, the fundamental laws of physics can be expressed without the aid of coordinates; and, indeed, their coordinate-free expressions are generally elegant and exceedingly powerful.

S. Latitude 34° 21?, W. Longitude 152° 17?

Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to be a danger to oneself and others. Too much thinking turns you into that fool Hamlet.

between 7th and 8th Streets, and then the location of the

just longitude and latitude. Thirty-seven degrees, fifty-six minutes north by one hundred seven degrees, forty-nine minutes west.

There's a whole culture now where you meet travellers who don't give you a scrap of paper with their address on it, they give their GPS coordinates. 'I've seen this amazing place in Malawi you've got to go to! I'll give you the coordinates!'

This is it, the geographical limit of how far I'll go for Ossie. We are learning longitude and latitude in school, and it makes my face burn that I can graph the coordinates of my own love and courage with such damning precision.

what wonderful power there is in the real numbers, since one is in a position to determine uniquely, with a single coordinate, the elements of an n-dimensional continuous space.

They sit roughly 900 miles north and east of the Bahamas; roughly 600 miles east of Virginia; and about 3,500 miles south and west of London.

Fig. 148. Cartesian Equation of the Cone Mid-point of base as Origin. The distance (d) between two points (P1 and P2) in 3-dimensional space (Fig. 147) is given by: d2 = (x2 ? x1)2 + (y2 ? y1)2 + (z2 ? z1)2 It is sometimes easier to obtain the Cartesian equation of a figure by first defining it in cylindrical co-ordinates and substituting: y = r sin A; x = r cos A Figs. 148 and 149 disclose the genesis of Cartesian equations which describe the cone and the sphere:

eight miles to the southwest.

Cuando el portal se activa,es que las coordenadas no son incorrectas

I don't need protection." Not that she minded, of course. She always protected. It's what she did every moment of the day, and that small span of time when he'd protected her had been, well like a present. "Don't need it, no." He gave her the coordinates, and she got moving. "Deservie it, yes.

spit of sand is in 52 degrees latitude, 521?2 longitude, and from the spit of sand to the other part

Why does the egocentric system feel so much easier and more natural to handle? Simply because we always know where 'in front of' us is and where 'behind' and 'left' and 'right' are. We don't need a map or a compass to work this out, we don't need to look at the sun or the North Star, we just feel it, because the egocentric system of coordinates is based directly on our own body and our immediate visual field.

The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again.

The general laws of nature are to be expressed by equations that hold true for all systems of coordinates, that is they are covariant with respect to any substitutions whatever.

32°46? latitude, 171°91? longitude

For the mind of man (and here at last is the great thesis of Kant) is not passive wax upon which experience and sensation write their absolute and yet whimsical will; nor is it a mere abstract name for the series or group of mental states; it is an active organ which moulds and coördinates sensations into ideas, an organ which transforms the chaotic multiplicity of experience into the ordered unity of thought.

Or, we may use Cartesian co-ordinate systems from the outset:

The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory.

The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions. It is the one true and perfect symbol of the universe. And it is the one most accurate symbol of you . Spread your arms in an embrace, throw your head back, and prepare to receive and send coordinates of being . For, at last you know —you are the navigator, the captain, and the ship.