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- From: rkbg2554@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Robert K. Brunner)
- Subject: Re: flying puzzle
- References: <1993Jan27.235538.27148@cheshire.oxy.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:52:48 GMT
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- dementia@cheshire.oxy.edu (Daniel Steven Reinker) writes:
-
- >Here is something I've been trying to figure out lately. I'm not
- >sure if there is actually an answer, but there must be.
-
- >Say I live in Hawaii and go to Los Angeles for college. While
- >I am in Los Angeles, I discover that I have the ability to fly
- >at a fast speed. Now, I decide that since I can fly, I should
- >be able to fly back home to Hawaii. Consider that I am a college
- >student with about $50 in cash and a library at my disposal. How
- >can I navigate my way to make sure that I arrive in Hawaii?
-
- >Hiz Lord Dementia
- >--
- >"You can't help that. We're all mad here."-The cheshire cat, Alice in WL
-
- >"A mass hysteria/a megalomania/reveal Dementia/reveal"-Metallica
-
- You could follow a commercial airliner, if you can keep up. Just go
- to the airport and wait for a departing flight.
-
- Assuming you aren't up to such speeds...
-
- Get an AM radio. Find the frequency for some radio station in Hawaii.
- It would as probably be helpful to find the approximate direction to
- Hawaii, so you know which direction to start. Go in your initial
- direction until you can recieve the radio station. Determine in which
- direction your radio is most sensitive by tuning an LA station as you
- leave and note which direction you must point your radio for best
- reception. When you are in the vicinity of Hawaii (within several
- hundred miles at night), you should be able to follow the signal in.
- As you get closer, the signal may be strong in all directions, so you
- may have to switch to a low-power station so you can determine
- direction more accurately. Hopefully, this should get you close
- enough to follow city lights in at night, or perhaps sea traffic
- during the day.
-
- This is just one idea. I could probably come up with several others if
- I thought about it. One problem is that the AM radio can not tell you
- if you are moving towards or away from the transmitter, so you may
- have to backtrack if you discover you are getting farther away and the
- reception becomes worse. Send me a postcard when you get there.
-
- Robert Brunner
- brunner@uirvld.csl.uiuc.edu
-