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"Gordon" wrote in message
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This is from the Brian Toss rigging book so if you want to cheat, you
can look it up.

If I string a line around the equator (disregarding natural
obstacles) and then decide I want that line 1 foot above the equator
all the way around, how much longer must that line be? Call the earth's
diameter an even 8000 miles.
G

8000 miles? I take it this is a miniature Earth?


Oh, never mind. I was thinking circumference.

I looked it up. I was waayyyyy off. lol


Ha ha! A classic example why women make lousy sailors. Women never evolved a
brain that understands physical size and geographical and spatial
relationships. That's one reason women tend to get lost all the time and
seem so proud and happy that it be known they need to ask directions.

Men who evolved as hunters and explorers roamed the globe widely and
developed advanced spatial relationship skills. Over the thousands of years
men's brains evolved to understand distances and relationship between points
on a globe. Women who stayed close to the cave or camp and took care of the
brats and did some nearby gathering of fire wood, berries, roots, herbs,
etc. never developed the areas of the brain that handle spatial relationship
problems.

I hope this helps.

Wilbur Hubbard