Seen on the side of my new water bottle.

[james_davis_nicoll]

Comments

[brooksmoses]

So that'll be the front of the Cambridge Bay Youth Recreation Complex, then....

[brooksmoses]

It looks like this.

[maruad]

It is sad but I don't know how to find that location on the internet. I could use my old world atlas if I could remember where I put it. I am guessing Cambridge Bay.

[bunsen_h]

It's possible to enter those coordinates into Google Maps, exactly as they're written on that bottle. The '°' symbol can be copy/pasted from a document or a character map utility, or entered via a keyboard combo if your OS and keyboard support it.

[heron61]

For a brief while, I assumed this was your location and you had a water bottle with a display screen and a GPS link, which oddly seems far from impossible these days.

[maruad]

Thanks. I didn't know that... I still miss having a high quality paper atlas but I am old fashioned that way.

[rydra_wong]

Quick, patent that idea and make a fortune!

[scott_sanford]

There are people who would buy that, too.

[bwross]

Or you could just convert the mixed radix numbers to straight decimal.

[keith_morrison]

Well, no, as of 20 minutes or so ago (10:40 AM MDT, 29 Dec 2017) it looks like this:

[ba_munronoe]

I momentarily thought you were getting a message from the Cthulhu cult.

[brooksmoses]

Ah, indeed! Distinctly more snow involved, I see. And the sun much lower in the sky.

[keith_morrison]

What sun? I haven't seen the sun in three weeks.

[brooksmoses]

Oh, is that just twilight, then, that's making the sky blue-ish? I forgot you were north of the Arctic circle.

[roseembolism]

I can see it now: The casing for the screen, GPS and batteries takes up 400cc of the liter bottle, and it's impossible to clean properly, but yeah, it would probably sell.

[graydon]

Or just type the space-separated numbers with the N and W and google will figure it out.

I'm curious as to _why_ James' water bottle has this particular degree of locative specificity.

[keith_morrison]

The scene in the image is significantly brighter thanks to the camera on my phone than it was in reality. And yes, twilight.

[james_davis_nicoll]

My nephew and his family live there.

[nelc]

I just worked out that an arc-second of latitude is around 30 metres. At that latitude I guess it's about 12 metres (eyeballing it) of longitude? So I guess it could be the building across the street from the recreation centre.

[graydon]

A simple and compelling explanation!

Thank you!

[maruad]

Well... if it is cold in the spaces between the stars then maybe Cthulhu worshipers would favour places that are extremely cold... Hmmm... maybe that explains the architecture of the Manitoba Legislative building.

[brooksmoses]

Heh -- I'd worked it out by the expedient of incrementing the number in the google-maps search. It's a wide street, and an arc-second further north is just on the other side of the street.

[brooksmoses]

That explains it. Cameras are tricky that way -- I've taken long-exposure photos late at night that look almost indistinguishable from daylight except for stars in the blue sky.

[elusis]

Sounds like a winning Kickstarter.

[keith_morrison]

The Helen Magsagak building. It's primarily Government of Nunavut offices.

[keith_morrison]

It's not me, by the by.

[graydon]

While that would be an interesting exercise in conclusion jumping, I had already lept to incompatible conclusions about relative ages.