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ST Travel Poll -- What is the farthest you've traveled North, South, East and West?

Posted by znufrii Dec 9 '09, 07:24

North: Stuttgart
South: Tijuana
East: Munich
West: Eureka, CA

Responses:

North: Edmonton, AB; East: Peggy's Cove, NS; South: Las Vegas, NV, West: Vancouver Island, BC -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 9, 08:14
Yes. -- nm - mafic SI Dec 9, 07:55
above the arctic circle, Perth, been around the world and... - ceregon Dec 9, 07:47 1
- nice! -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:57
How is it possible to answer the east/west part of this poll? Something is always east and west of something. -- nm - con_carne Dec 9, 07:47 3
- pick a point of reference. your current location, Greenwich Meridian, doesn't really matter to me. -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:48 2
  - also, see the discussion below. -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:50 1
    - No. :) But, I do know that I'd hate to be ty97 during this poll. -- nm - con_carne Dec 9, 07:57
West: Hawaii. South: Cuba. East, Bratislava. North, probably north of Quebec city where I lived -- nm - Guigue Dec 9, 07:46
North - Kirkenes (Norway), South & East - Hong Kong, West - Vancouver -- nm - Rest of the World Dec 9, 07:44
north: Kittery ME, south: Jacksonville FL, west: Disneyland, east: somewhere on Cape Cod, I guess. -- nm - kelly Dec 9, 07:38
Newfoundland, Cuba, Nova Scotia, Zurich. -- nm - Shaun Dec 9, 07:36 5
- I'm pretty sure NF is further east than NS. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:36 4
  - maybe we should tell you the places we've been and then you can submit our answers. -- nm - CQ Dec 9, 07:38 3
    - Apparently this is the only true correct answer to the poll. -- nm - Shaun Dec 9, 07:43
    - Tangent: I love the "Places I've Been" facebook app for this. -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:39
    - don't bully me. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:39
North: Thorhild, Alberta. West: Ucluelet, BC. East: Thorhild, AB (although Las Vegas and Tulum might be further east). South: Tulum, Mexico. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 07:33
a little north of grise fiord, tierra del fuego, fiji, kauai. -- nm - mafic Dec 9, 07:31 1
- I was waiting for your answer on this. heh -- nm - CQ Dec 9, 07:33
Lanse aux Meadows NF, Jamaica, St John's NF, Toronto -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 07:30
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north: boston, south: aruba, east: puerto rico (?), west: california -- nm - decline Dec 9, 07:29
West, California. East, probably when I was in Boston. South, Miami. North, North Dakota. - JaxSean Dec 9, 07:29
Whitehorse, Dubai, Honolulul, Dubai. -- nm - Reagen Dec 9, 07:29
North: Whitehorse, YK. South: San Andres Colombia. West: Vanc Island. East: Austria? -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 9, 07:29
London, Tasmania, and (E/W from current location), Istanbul, Darwin -- nm - Roger More Dec 9, 07:29 1
- E/W from Greenwich, it would be Auckland and Samoa -- nm - Roger More Dec 9, 07:38
North: Looks like Germany. East: Italy. West: California. South: Caribbean -- nm - oblique Dec 9, 07:27
North: Stockholm. South: South Africa. West: Macau. East: India -- nm - adventy97 Dec 9, 07:27 9
- bzzzt. Macau is further east than India. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:28 8
  - Not if he flew west to Macau and east to India....huh? Yeah, thought so..... -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 9, 07:29 7
    - nope, direction traveled doesn't count. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:29 6
      - nope, just your point of reference. -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:31 5
        
        And travelling from Chicago, Dehli is closer travelling east than west -- nm - Roger More Dec 9, 07:33 4
        
        At those distances you're more likely to go North anyway. -- nm - Ender Dec 9, 07:34 3
        
        Oh sure. But relative to Chicago, Delhi is still east -- nm - Roger More Dec 9, 07:35 1
        
        (a looooong way east, of course) -- nm - Roger More Dec 9, 07:36
        
        the Polar route? I've always wanted to do that. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:35
Montreal, Costa Rica, Italy, Vegas, baby -- nm - CQ Dec 9, 07:26
North: London, South: Tampa, East: Rome, West, St Louis -- nm - Ender Dec 9, 07:26
North, Glasgow, South, Florida, East, Bosnia, West, Arizona or Vegas, whichever is westier. -- nm - Loyola Dec 9, 07:26
Where I am right now. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:25 45
- Actually you can do North/South because of the polls, but East/West you can't really do. Relative to what? -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:27 39
  - It took me the longest time to realize you meant "poles." -- nm - mara Dec 9, 07:33 1
    - I'm dumb. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:35
  - Relative to where you were born. -- nm - mara Dec 9, 07:31 27
    - Then the furthest west I've been is one step east of where I was born and the furthest east I've been is one step west of where I was born. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:33 26
      - The farthest east or west you can go is halfway around the world. -- nm - mara Dec 9, 07:35 20
        
        If I go east halfway around the world, I can still go east. If I go north to the north *pole* I can't go north any more. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:37 1
        
        But then yuo start getting closer to where you started. The question is where are you the farthest away. -- nm - mara Dec 9, 07:38
        
        well, sort of, but i could walk around the world (well, you know) and be heading west the entire time. -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 9, 07:36 17
        
        Irrelevent. The question has to do to with where you're farthest away from where you started? Once you start getting closer, you're not longer at the - mara Dec 9, 07:37 16
        
        what if someone is born at the South Pole (which has happened)? how do you determine the furthest east/west they ever traveled? -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:40 15
        
        It's just interesting that north/south are absolute constructs, but east/west are relative constructs. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:42 7
        
        but there is still an absolute upper limit on the distance from your starting point, as opposed to "distance travelled", in either direction. -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:45 5
        
        There is no room for interpretation on the question of north/south, but you need more information to answer the question of east/west. - Dano Dec 9, 07:52 4
        
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        Math is philosophy. What is zero? -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 08:00 1
        
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        That's like saying that the mobius strip is unremarkable. :P -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 08:00
        
        that's why we have those two arbitrary meridians. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:43
        
        They can't travel east or west at all, can they? Is this a trick question? -- nm - mara Dec 9, 07:41 5
        
        and the entire point of my original conundrum -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:43 3
        
        Why? Were any of us born that close to a pole? -- nm - mara Dec 9, 07:51 1
        
        You need more info to answer east/west. You need no more info to answer north/south. - Dano Dec 9, 07:56
        
        another oddity is that in antarctica, you can walk a few miles and go very far east or west, whereas at the equator it might take thousands of miles. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:45
        
        of course it's a trick question! -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:42
        
        I hereby exempt such persons from having to answer this poll. :) - znufrii Dec 9, 07:41
      - now you're just being difficult :) -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:35 1
        
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      - only if you were born on the date line. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:33 2
        
        (that was my answer based on mara's specific criteria) -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:35
        
        i think people are going from where they are.... -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 9, 07:34
  - I was assuming relative to Greenwich, but you can do relative to your current location as well -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:29 1
    - Yep. The 0 and the 180 meridians. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:30
  - The International Date Line. -- nm - Reagen Dec 9, 07:28 5
    - So if I'm standing on the International Date Line and take one step West, then that's the farthest East I've traveled? -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:30 3
      - that's essentially what I did. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:30 2
        
        East/West is weird. If you keep going north, you'll eventually be going south. If you keep going east, you're always going east. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:32 1
        
        that's because north and south converge on a single point. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:33
    - which is why I put Guam for East and Hawaii for West. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:29
  - To where you normally reside. -- nm - Loyola Dec 9, 07:28
- you've never moved from the precise spot since the day you were born? - znufrii Dec 9, 07:27 4
  - he's lying. I met him in Baltimore and we know he's been to Toronto. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:28
  - but if I keep traveling east, I will eventually wind up here. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:27 2
    - i did it as 'travelled to', so the direction i headed to get there. -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 9, 07:31 1
      - it is kind of fun to see how people interpret the question. :) -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:33
Anchorage, Rwanda, Guam, Hawaii. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:25
North...boston, south, orlando, east, boston, west vegas. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 9, 07:25

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