* Wilbur Hubbard wrote, On 3/12/2007 11:34 AM:


No contradiction. Only misconceptions in your mind. Let me explain one
more time. This time please get your head out of your ass.

1) Astronomers plotted celestial bodies and made tables telling where
these bodies would be in the sky and when.

ok ...


2) a sextant and tables of celestial body positions can be used to tell
you your geographical position on the face of the Earth.

you need a bit more than that in general


3) the TABLES don't work without accurate time because the angles change
as time changes. A second of time matters. This is because the Earth
rotates.

ok


4) The lat/lon grid system is an arbitrary one. It is based on the
properties of a sphere and has NOTHING to do with time.

Absolute nonsense. The choice of the equator was certainly not
arbitrary.

Time could stop
but the grid system would remain exactly the same. Picture actual lines
painted on the Earth's surface. These lines remain even if time stops.
Time has NOTHING to do with the grid system

complete nonsense.


5) Time IS USED to reference the exact angle of a celestial body as it
appears from a given GP on the face of the sphere which GP is defined by
the lat/lon grid.

In other words, the objects appear to move with time? That's deep.


Longitude is NOT based upon a revolving Earth.

Are you actually claiming we would have the same lat/lon system even
if the Earth didn't rotate? You aren't very smart, are you?

Longitude lines exist as
an artificial series of lines space on the Earth's surface by geometric
parameters. Time is not involved one iota. The Earth could stop rotating
yet the Meridians of Longitude would still exist.

Total nonsense. The basic unit of time is the "day" which represents
the Earth's rotation on it's axis. The meridians in affect measure
that rotation. Don't you think its more than a coincidence that the
time zones are defined primarily by longitude?

Wilbur Hubbard, grade school dropout.