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Author here — I agree the image is misleading (and added a caveat to be clearer, though I could have made the arrow smaller). I don't think the question requir
by finm 2y ago
Author here — I agree the image is misleading (and added a caveat to be clearer, though I could have made the arrow smaller).
I don't think the question requires the reader to ignore what ‘east’ means, however. There is unambiguously one direction at Seattle (tangent to the Earth's surface) which is facing due east.
I also didn't mean to take a patronising/arrogant tone to the reader and I'm sorry if that was the impression I gave.
- enoch_r 2y agoFWIW I did not get that impression at all, and I'm bewildered by all of the combative comments here. It's a cool thought experiment!
- bagels 2y agoThe article and title have changed in response to the comments.
- kuhewa 2y agoI read it after your caveat was added, but I didn't find it intentionally misleading, from the very strong response (which is doing what it accuses the post of doing by claiming it reads 'travel due east') I get the feeling someone may be a bit peeved they didn't 'get it's and instead thought the answer would be some embassy that happens to be directly east of Seattle.
- defrost 2y ago> There is unambiguously one direction at Seattle (tangent to the Earth's surface) and that tangent is the straight line, at least it is within the R^3 spatial universe I live within. There's confusion here as the article presumes humans to be bound to an S^2 manifold and to consider a Great Circle to be a "straight line" which it certainly is not unless one lives within an S^2 Flatland.
- RaftPeople 2y agoMy immediate guess was England or maybe a bit lower and France, but then I saw the arrow and thought "DOH! Canada"
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