To: NCBraveheart
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2584239/posts?page=23#23
Somehow, I fail to see how the opening facing southwest points to Mecca unless one circumnavigates the globe over and over again until the angles of deflection eventually hit it. In the above post, I linked the PDF that includes the site plans with North pointing straight up (verified by Google Earth). Mecca is about 22 degrees south of due east.
8 posted on
09/12/2010 9:46:52 AM PDT by
mazda77
(Rubio - US Senate, West FL22nd, Scott/Carroll - FL Gov/LtGov, Miller-AK US Senate)
To: mazda77
Somehow, I fail to see how the opening facing southwest points to Mecca unless one circumnavigates the globe over and over again until the angles of deflection eventually hit it. In the above post, I linked the PDF that includes the site plans with North pointing straight up (verified by Google Earth). Mecca is about 22 degrees south of due east.
You need the Great Circle route. This gives an initial heading of 55 degrees - closer to NE.
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=2G9-QCA
23 posted on
09/12/2010 11:15:45 AM PDT by
az_gila
(AZ - one Governor down... we don't want her back...)
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