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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Sep 16 13:36:29 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: snark!cowan@vfl.paramax.com (John Cowan)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 12:10:39 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <9309160603.AA22694@codex.com> from "Captain Krankor" at Sep 16, 9
3 01:53:06 am
Captain Krankor writes:
> Perhaps I am dealing from ignorance, but
> isn't the "mark" in "course 111 mark 14" the same as a decimal
> point? A decimal point lets us do a vast wealth of fractions.
No, not at all. "111 mark 14" reflects a three-dimensional heading.
It means 111 degrees east of Galactic North (an arbitrary direction),
and 14 degrees up from the galactic plane. The numbers are azimuth
and altitude respectively. This was established way back in >The Making
Of Star Trek<.
> Extra credit (10 points): Identify course 111.14.
In the nature of things, this cannot have an absolute meaning; course
111 mark 14 takes you along a given direction, and the destination can be
known only if the origin is known. But in fact I suppose that on one
occasion someone ordered some ship on this heading: who, what, and whither
(and whence), I don't remember.
--
John Cowan cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!lock60!snark!cowan
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