Nobody to mention that the property of Mercator projection is that it preserves angles?
Meaning that the points are not on the shortest path, but are close to being at the same azimuth one to another?
Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?
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Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?
#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
For what it's worth (not much), the line can be extended with similar error bars to include: - St Michael's Church in Bengaluru, India - Gereja Katolik Santo Mikael in Surabaya, Indonesia - St Michael's Catholic Church in Kilcoy, Australia - St Michael's Church in Auckland, New Zealand Perhaps the real data challenge here is to find the straight line with the most St Michael'ses globally.
Sounds like the real challenge is to circle the world without getting too close to anything named after some Michael
Those two things do depend on each other, don't they? Like Ying and Yang?
Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?
#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
The extra interesting wrinkle here is that each of the Burger Kings in the straight line are associated with an appearance of the Burger King himself explicitly asking for a shrine in the location, while the others are mostly random franchises stuck up by someone who decided they would like a fast food restaurant here and it might as well be a Burger King. (i. e. Mont Saint Michele the bishop who saw St. Michael orig…
> an appearance of the Burger King himself explicitly asking for a shrine in the location Is this canonically BK lore?
Not _yet_
Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?
#214I live very close to the one in Italy (close to Turin). It's SO impressive. The early cathedral was built around the year ~800AD. And it was not "built" in the sense that they placed bricks one over the other. Instead, what they did was "cut" the stone of the mountain to shape it as a cathedral.
The steps of the stairs are just cut and shaped stone, the walls are just stone. It can be summer and 90degrees in Turin, and inside the cathedral is 30 degrees and so chill.
If you ever find yourself close, go visit it, it's a very humbling experience.
Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?
#215Nobody to mention that the property of Mercator projection is that it preserves angles? Meaning that the points are not on the shortest path, but are close to being at the same azimuth one to another?
the article mentions it
Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?
#216Nobody to mention that the property of Mercator projection is that it preserves angles? Meaning that the points are not on the shortest path, but are close to being at the same azimuth one to another?
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Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?
#217I live very close to the one in Italy (close to Turin). It's SO impressive. The early cathedral was built around the year ~800AD. And it was not "built" in the sense that they placed bricks one over the other. Instead, what they did was "cut" the stone of the mountain to shape it as a cathedral. The steps of the stairs are just cut and shaped stone, the walls are just stone. It can be summer and 90degrees in Turin, a…
> It can be summer and 90degrees in Turin, and inside the cathedral is 30 degrees and so chill.
Which temperature scale are you using here?
Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?
#218Matt Parker ("Stand up Maths" channel on YouTube) gave a very informative and entertaining lecture in 2010 titled "Clutching at Random Straws" [0], which, among other things, covered something similar. From the subtitle of the video: "Did aliens help prehistoric Britons find the ancient Woolworths civilisation?" The answer is "no". Given enough data points, you can find all sorts of patterns. 0: https://www.youtube.c…
He also covered this in a more recent talk [1] which has some better audio and a direct feed of the slides. It also comes with an entirely different set of interesting stories for anyone inclined to listen :)
Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?
#219I live very close to the one in Italy (close to Turin). It's SO impressive. The early cathedral was built around the year ~800AD. And it was not "built" in the sense that they placed bricks one over the other. Instead, what they did was "cut" the stone of the mountain to shape it as a cathedral. The steps of the stairs are just cut and shaped stone, the walls are just stone. It can be summer and 90degrees in Turin, a…
> It can be summer and 90degrees in Turin, and inside the cathedral is 30 degrees and so chill. Which temperature scale are you using here?
Probably not Kelvin.
Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?
#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
Okay, GPT4 said there a just 189 non-overlapping 50km bands (horizontal, vertical, and diagnoal) in Europe and then continued to calculate the chance to land those 7 points in any of the 189 bands and gave a result in the order of 10^-12.
You could have two points in 2 of your non overlapping bands that are less than a band's width apart. Also, the probability of the first 2 points will always be 100% because they define the line. Also, it's not 7 random points, it's 7 of thousands of random points.
> Also, it's not 7 random points, it's 7 of thousands of random points.
Ah - I missed this one.