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Date: 2007-03-01 01:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] armb.livejournal.com
There's an ongoing dispute over what constitutes a circumnavigation (http://www.velovision.co.uk/cgi-bin/show_comments.pl?storynum=856) that linked to the Wikipedia one, but I hadn't seen the interactive one.
(There are groups part way around human powered circumnavigations that include antipodal points who are miffed that another group who kept entirely to the Northern hemisphere are claiming to have already been the first to do one.)

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Date: 2007-03-01 02:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tienelle.livejournal.com
Given an only moderately tricky trip to one pole or another, I could do a human-powered circumnavigation in the second sense in mere seconds. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's already been done.

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Date: 2007-03-01 07:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] armb.livejournal.com
> I could do a human-powered circumnavigation in the second sense in mere seconds.

They were using a "at least the length of the Tropic of Cancer" definition intended to allow aircraft to use jetstreams all the way around (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumnavigation#Aviation), so not quite that simple.

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Date: 2007-03-01 01:22 pm (UTC)
simont: A picture of me in 2016 (Default)
From: [personal profile] simont
a more web 2.0 version of the same idea

By which you mean, presumably, that it's packed full of whizzy technology showing client and server in seamless cooperation, but mysteriously turns out to be harder to get to tell you what you wanted to know than the good old-fashioned static image in the first link?

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Date: 2007-03-01 02:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com
Shut up and look at the SHINY buttons

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Date: 2007-03-01 06:34 pm (UTC)
ext_8707: Taken in front of Carnegie Hall (cotopaxi)
From: [identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com
"A ver, Miguelito, ¿nuestras antípodas son... ?"
"¿Los japonésidos?"
"¡CERO, ESTÚPIDO!"
"¡ANTIPÁTIDA!"

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Date: 2007-03-03 01:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com
Err, this is so obviously incorrect. I mean, China is not the other side from any US nuclear stations!

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Date: 2007-03-03 09:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nassus.livejournal.com
Ah so this is why we are referred to as antipodeans. Its a bit of a stretch but without the technology its nearly the direct opposite *Grin*

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