Famous Key West buoy burned after 2 set tree on fire

Washington Times ^ | 1-1-22 | unattributed

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Police are searching for two people who burned a part of Key West’s famous Southernmost Point buoy early New Year’s Day after setting a fire near the landmark tourism icon.

News outlets report two males lit a Christmas tree on fire in front of the buoy around 3:30 a.m. Saturday and the flames charred sections of the colorful, 4-ton cement monument that reads “90 miles to Cuba, Southernmost Point, Continental U.S.A.”

Archival webcam images of the buoy from a marketing company shows two people lighting the tree on fire near the marker, with the flames leaving a large black burn mark on the monument.

[digger48]

That caught me off guard, seeing chickens running around a 4 star hotel

The rum runners down there were addictive

[chickenlips]

Sounds like a guided hunting safari opportunity to me.

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Another directional factoid is that Reno is further west than Los Angeles.

[FatherofFive]

Hawaii Alaska Alaska Alaska

A winner! The Aleutian Islands stretch into the eastern hemisphere

[FatherofFive]

Hawaii, Alaska, Alaska, Hawaii.

Close. Alaska extends to the eastern hemisphere

[FatherofFive]

No one would say that Tokyo is East of Hawaii.

You make some good points, but Alaska is partly in the eastern hemisphere. The rest of the US is in the Western Hemisphere. So yes, Tokyo is farther East than Hawaii, but you do get there by heading west from Honolulu

[FatherofFive]

Close, but parts of Alaska are in the eastern hemisphere

[Reno89519]

I have been there several times. Always surprised it is still above water with sea level rise of anthropological global warming.

[Hot Tabasco]

Sounds like a guided hunting safari opportunity to me.

Go to Youtube and search for "Iguana man" and "Iguana solutions"

They both have tons of videos of hunting and shooting iguanas with air rifles.

Apparently in south Florida they number in the millions with one female able to lay between 30 and 70 eggs. And the destruction they cause to landscaping is incredible.

[Vlad0]

You quoted me and found an error of mine when you said:

“Just because there are Longitude measurements with North and South in them...”

There aren’t. The ones with North and South are measurements of latitude.

Ooops! Good catch, thanks. Here let me fix that:

Just because there are Longitude measurements with the North and South descriptors "East" and "West" in them, doesn't mean that logically Japan is East of Hawaii.

What most others here are saying, that the answer to the question (which I've dubbed the "trick answer"), is the obviously correct one. OK, I'll stipulate that, based on Lat/Long location names everyone is correct.

And if we throw out the lat/long location name, what do we have left to work with? Is there any other logically consistent argument to be made for Maine as the further east location?

And my gut feel, that I'm working through here is that Yeah, there is.

Because when we use the terms North, East, South and West we primarily use them as directions, not location names.

My example is based on direction, not the descriptors in the lat/long cartesian measurement system.

Start here: what I've never thought about much before is how differently the two axis (axis's? axi?) of direction function. Here's a bunch of differences (I thought this up, there might be better regular terms for these things I'm describing).

Feature	Latitude	Longitude
terminus	2 points	semi-circle
terminus to terminus distance	antipode pair, 12,450 miles	Zero (180°E and 180°W are the same)
nature of terminus	natural	arbitrary
continuous travel in direction	bounded, impossible	unbounded, possible
lines of	different lengths	same length
degrees total	180°	360°

Using the coordinate system (lat/long descriptions) then furthest East and West, is the line consisting of all the points on the 180° East/ 180° West Longitude.

But if we use Eastthe direction

? Then the answer to "what is the furthest east (or west) one can go is one's current longitude ± 180° and notmerely the distance to the 180th meridian.

Example: From Amatignak Island (the Aleutian with the Western Most Lat/Long coordinates, what point on Earth is furthest East from there. My claim is using East the direction it would be somewhere near 0°, not the island 100 miles to the West.

The "trick" nature of the question is revealed more obviously in this example. |

I doubt I convinced anyone, but I had fun trying, and sometimes that's enough.

Happy New Year!