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Where in the world is your birthday
jollygreengiant - 16/10/11 at 08:44 AM

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.

jollygreengiant - 16/10/11 at 08:48 AM

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]

David Jenkins - 16/10/11 at 09:06 AM

I'm in the Democratic Republic of Congo, just north of Busu-Mouli.

Bleak looking place...

AndyW - 16/10/11 at 09:07 AM

12km north west of Koropo, Central African Republic.

Not anywhere near Huntingdon

owelly - 16/10/11 at 10:52 AM

Just north west of Zakouma National Park located between Sarh and Am Timan,in the south of Chad.

tomgregory2000 - 16/10/11 at 11:53 AM

i am not from this world as my birthday dont work

jollygreengiant - 16/10/11 at 12:21 PM

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]

NigeEss - 16/10/11 at 01:02 PM

Middle of a desert in Libya near Al Jawf.

Can I claim my oil field

Liam - 16/10/11 at 01:33 PM

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.

Confused but excited. - 16/10/11 at 03:01 PM

3Km SSW of Bir el Rhala, In Chad.

Not the most salubrious address I've ever had.

iank - 16/10/11 at 03:11 PM

In the desert about 100km North West of Al Jazirah in Libya

wombat - 16/10/11 at 03:43 PM

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

Stuart_B - 16/10/11 at 04:24 PM

i am near the centre of libya , not quite right.lol

stu

Liam - 16/10/11 at 05:46 PM

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?

Ninehigh - 16/10/11 at 06:03 PM

Mine came up with several places across the US, I don't think just entering the numbers works

Liam - 16/10/11 at 06:14 PM

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.

Steve Hignett - 16/10/11 at 06:38 PM

MakeEverything - 16/10/11 at 06:43 PM

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]

Liam - 16/10/11 at 07:38 PM

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

Confused but excited. - 16/10/11 at 08:09 PM

I can verify that. She lives next door to me.

ChrisL - 16/10/11 at 09:25 PM

Right in the middle of the Chadian desert, no pub and miles from the shops :-(

SteveWalker - 16/10/11 at 10:09 PM

Another for somewhere in the Libyan desert. Pity it's not nearer the coast, then I could say that I've actually been there!

steve m - 17/10/11 at 07:57 AM

"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

adithorp - 17/10/11 at 08:41 AM

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

donny - 17/10/11 at 09:54 AM

'Palais des Congres de Paris'!

Ooh la la

Liam - 17/10/11 at 03:01 PM

Not sure what you're entering to end up in Germany, but congratulations - it's a damn lot nicer than where I was born in Chad!

adithorp - 17/10/11 at 03:18 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Liam
Not sure what you're entering to end up in Germany, but congratulations - it's a damn lot nicer than where I was born in Chad!


Actually I'd be curious to know which date you're entering. Northern germany is 50ish degrees north. so what month has that many days?

MikeFellows - 17/10/11 at 03:38 PM

dont forget you can put a minus infront too

as your only ever going to get northern hemisphere locations without using minus

jossey - 17/10/11 at 03:56 PM

im near libya too.

bit sandy if you ask me

Steve Hignett - 19/10/11 at 12:28 AM

The pics reminded me of this other pic...