jollygreengiant
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 08:44 AM |
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Where in the world is your birthday
Ok so its might be a bit of fun and others might think 'what the .....?'
So here is the premise, it is possible to write your birth date down as a latitude and longitude with a bit of thought, I will use mine as an
example.
DOB = 11 07 1959
So take the day and month as the first part and this becomes 11 07 00 (six digits for each require), then the year becomes 19 59 00. The only problem
that you might have is IF any of the paired numbers exceeds 60 (only likely on the final year pairing, but this then changes only a little as you take
60 off of the second pair and add 1 to the first pair. ie my wifes year is 1962 so this becomes 20 02.)
You then these numbers and input them into google earth and get a rough location.
So my birthdate gets entered into google earth as
11 07 00 19 59 00.
Hit enter and see where in the world this takes you to. Then put this up here as a rough loaction relative to any towns or other notable locations. No
need to put up your birthday as I ONLY use mine as an example.
I will put up my results in my next post just for clarity.
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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jollygreengiant
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 08:48 AM |
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My location
Central Africa
21 miles North West of Am Timan and 31.5 miles North East of Zakouma National Park.
My Wife is
Central Africa
5.8 miles West South West of Atetel and 6.1 miles East North East of Dzaroura.
Any other takers.
Son - 28.4 miles South South East of Sangba and 105.3 miles North West of Aguida
Daughter - middle of the libyan desert, 479.9 miles South of Benghazi and 707.9 miles South West of Alexandria.
[Edited on 16/10/11 by jollygreengiant]
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 09:06 AM |
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I'm in the Democratic Republic of Congo, just north of Busu-Mouli.
Bleak looking place...
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AndyW
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 09:07 AM |
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12km north west of Koropo, Central African Republic.
Not anywhere near Huntingdon
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owelly
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 10:52 AM |
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Just north west of Zakouma National Park located between Sarh and Am Timan,in the south of Chad.
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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tomgregory2000
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 11:53 AM |
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i am not from this world as my birthday dont work 
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jollygreengiant
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 12:21 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by tomgregory2000
i am not from this world as my birthday dont work
Trust me it will work, for the most part people seem to be somewhere in Africa (hope we don't catch something nasty). I think the only way
paople will be somewhere else is if the use the american date format. No just tried that still end up in Africa. So perhaps I should have made the
title, 'where in Africa is your birth date'
Still a bit of fun.
Remember to enter it as 'DD MM 00 CC YY 00' where CC is the Century and YY is the year, IF YY is bigger than 60 then Subtract 60 and add 1
to the century. so 1993 would be entered as 20 33.
[Edited on 16/10/11 by jollygreengiant]
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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NigeEss
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 01:02 PM |
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Middle of a desert in Libya near Al Jawf.
Can I claim my oil field 
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.................Douglas Adams.
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Liam
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 01:33 PM |
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I was born in the wierdest looking bit of terrain on earth in northern Chad. My childhood consisted of mostly washing sand out of my arse-crack in
Lake Yoa. Good times.
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 03:01 PM |
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3Km SSW of Bir el Rhala, In Chad.
Not the most salubrious address I've ever had.
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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iank
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 03:11 PM |
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In the desert about 100km North West of Al Jazirah in Libya
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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wombat
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 03:43 PM |
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Wife in middle of Lybian Desert, not the best place in the world right now, but she has no internet connection and cant see what parts I bought today
on EBay
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Stuart_B
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 04:24 PM |
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i am near the centre of libya , not quite right.lol
stu
black mk indy, 1.6pinto on cbr600 bike carb's.
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Liam
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 05:46 PM |
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Thinking about it more, every single one of us will have been born in a thin strip of Africa either in DRC, Central Africa, Chad or Libya. Hmmmm
wonder if we can modify the game to give more interesting results?
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 06:03 PM |
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Mine came up with several places across the US, I don't think just entering the numbers works
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Liam
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 06:14 PM |
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Assuming you're not doing it wrong, maybe if Google Earth finds a more interesting match for your numbers than interpreting them as North and
East latitude and longitude (like a US zip code?) it may take you there rather than the middle of nowhere in Africa? Based on just that grid ref
format we're definately all in a thin strip of Africa - 19 or 20 degrees East and anywhere from 1 to 31 degrees North.
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 06:38 PM |
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Liam, what was your Mum's name???
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MakeEverything
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 06:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve Hignett
What was your mums name?
ET? or Mumm Ra?
Mine comes out in Northern Germany, up near Copenhagen.
[Edited on 16-10-11 by MakeEverything]
Kindest Regards,
Richard.
...You can make it foolProof, but youll never make it Idiot Proof!...
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Liam
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 07:38 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve Hignett
Liam, what was your Mum's name???
Well since you ask, my dear mother is called Sister Teresa Obugu, wife of a Nigerian businessman who passed away recently in a plane crash.
She's actually looking for somebody trustworthy to help her transfer 25,000,000 (25 Million) USD of dad's money out of Chad. Would you be
interested in helping? Some money in it for ya.
Cheers,
Mr Liam Obugu
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 08:09 PM |
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I can verify that. She lives next door to me.
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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ChrisL
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 09:25 PM |
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Right in the middle of the Chadian desert, no pub and miles from the shops :-(
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SteveWalker
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 10:09 PM |
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Another for somewhere in the Libyan desert. Pity it's not nearer the coast, then I could say that I've actually been there!
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steve m
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| posted on 17/10/11 at 07:57 AM |
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"Mine comes out in Northern Germany, up near Copenhagen. "
mine is in germany as well, and as every one else's was in Africa, i thought i had cocked up somewhere!
steve
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adithorp
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| posted on 17/10/11 at 08:41 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by steve m
"Mine comes out in Northern Germany, up near Copenhagen. "
mine is in germany as well, and as every one else's was in Africa, i thought i had cocked up somewhere!
steve
Just depends how late in the month you were born. As said it results in us all being "from" a relatively thin strip of the earth. It does
vary if you specify N or S and E or W. Mine come out as... Somewhere in the jungles of Benin with N/E or the jungle of Angola with S/E. Both N/W and
S/W are in the Atlantic
"A witty saying proves nothing" Voltaire
http://jpsc.org.uk/forum/
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donny
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| posted on 17/10/11 at 09:54 AM |
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'Palais des Congres de Paris'!
Ooh la la
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