Lonelygirl15

[SharpI]

Okay folks, listen up. Look at this exchange from the "Proving Longitude Wrong" vlog posts:

[abcdefg]

hey guys.... i've been lurking here for months and i finally have something (possibly) interesting to add.

okay, i don't know if it's really signficant to the plot or not, but about the clocks:

the book she's reading actually tells of one man's quest to make a "clock" which will accurately measure time, and therefore longitude.

from amazon.com:

The scientific establishment of Europe--from Galileo to Sir Issac Newton--had mapped the heavens in both hemispheres in its certain pursuit of a celestial answer. In stark contrast, one man, John Harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solution--a clock that would keep percise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is a dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.

here's another interesting review of the book as well (which also mentions the knowing where you are and where you're going bit):
http://www.curledup.com/longitud.htm

so in a way Harrison was really proving science wrong with the invention of his clock (his winning clock is also currently on display at the royal observatory in greenwich).

[house]

Has anyone checked this week's issue of TIME to see what's on pages 7, and 10-12? Just curious... the table of contents, on the web, looks like alot of religious stuff.

These numbers remind me of the cookie baking/rating vlog. But, we're dealing with the same numbers: 10 and 12. The 7 is the oddity. But, I suppose you'd have to pick some hour (even if it was just random) when you're using clocks. My husband proposed that, if you fall back an hour (as we're supposed to do tonight), the time would actually be 6:10 and 6:12. So, that could tie in the year 06'. Leaving 12-10-06 as the pertinant date. Furthermore, if you use the gestational calender: a child conceived on 12-10-06, the due date would be America's Labor Day. (Don't ask how I know that...just random facts, again)

[Morgan]

[abcdefg]

also, has anyone else figured out a way to check if 7:10 and 7:12 (where exactly did we get 7:12 from though?? i missed that...) are latitude and longitude coordinates?

looking at mapquest, 7 degrees, 10 minutes, 0 seconds latitude / 7 degrees, 12 minutes, 0 seconds longitude is smack in the middle of Nigeria.

not quite sure how that's relevant though, so maybe i'm way off here...

[minsky]

Hmm Daniel points to England, Clock set to 7:10 Time in London at the moment 7:34 am (how long ago was this vid posted). In the other video Daniel was packing. Could we be looking at a road trip to London to see Gemma?

[house]

http://www.billheidrick.com/tlc1990/tlc1190.htm

This site is interesting. I googled "Time 7:10 Thelema" and this was the first hit. It's a calendar/schedule regarding a November Gnostic Mass, in 1990. The time 7:10 represents an astrological chart of some sort:
12/8 ZID ( 7:10 to 9:10 PM
This poem/song is also related:

[deagol]

This is getting really interesting, even eerie... to me at least.

Yes, a way to measure longitude is to keep good time!

[pcbbc]

I'm not sure he is pointing at England. The UK is the purple thing to the left and above where he is pointing.
To me it seems he is pointing more towards central France or Switzerland. Switzerland would seem more appropriate, given the clock references.
Also latitude 7 deg 10 min, 7 deg 12 min run through Switzerland - but, as the video is about longitude, that doesn't seem right.

But I've concluded what he is actually pointing at is Bree.... in France

[deagol]

Ok, LA is usually 8 hours earlier than London.

But not right now... if I post this within 10 minutes.

See, daylight savings ended in London at 2 AM local time today, almost 8 hours ago, but it's still in effect in Los Angeles until 2 AM local time (PDT), still a few minutes away.

So, for the last 8 hours, the time difference has been 7 hours... Maybe they just spent 10-12 minutes thinking about it, thus 7:10.

[edit to fix calculations]

[quikstrike98]

I can't grok the significance of 7:10, but as posted earlier, the invention of an accurate timepiece was (ahem) instrumental in determining longitude during navigation at sea.
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[deagol]

Similarly, New Zeland time is usually 13 hours later than London time.

But not for the last 29 days, it's been only 12 hours difference (convenient as you just swap the AM for PM either way). Since October 1st, 2 am local NZ time NZ started daylight savings, and today at 2 am London ended daylight savings, making it 13 hours more once again. An hour and 10 minutes later, London standard time was 2:10 am when it was 7:10 pm PDT in LA, the time in Bree's clock.

Ok now I just need to untwist my brain.

[edit to fix calculations]

[essie]

Back to the story being more upbeat and happy. Yet does anyone think her story she told about longitude seems to be a clue?

2 girls survivors.. ( Bree and Gemma )
man with emerald ring that gets murdered for it ( Daniel? )

I really would hate it with Daniel got killed of the series.


Just my two cents.

[lonelygirl]

[TheFatLady]