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| Eating elephants one bite at a time  |
Somewhere I tripped down this rabit hole and find it an interesting concept. Someone has overlaid a 3M x 3M grid over the world and the assigned each grid three words. The idea is it makes communication of location easier. It is explained here. If you want to figure out your three words, go here. It was good for a unique time killer. Just last week, I found several great ses shells near quantity.subversive.wriggle. Have you been anywhere unique lately? | ||
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How is that easier than lat/long? Lat Long (38.896721, -77.036326) Vs chest.parent.always If I go a block way from this point, I'm at forget.turned.films vs. 38.896315, -77.031788 How the hell would I know which way to go? Whether it was next door or 3 million miles away? Pretty dumb if you ask me. Hedley Lamarr: Wait, wait, wait. I'm unarmed. Bart: Alright, we'll settle this like men, with our fists. Hedley Lamarr: Sorry, I just remembered . . . I am armed. | |||
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Chip away the stone |
I clicked the link and it said I was at "Wyckoff Heights." This some kinda joke?   I can see some value in it in that it's much easier to remember 3 words than lat-long numbers, but I don't expect I'll be using their system. | |||
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| Shit don't mean shit |
I'll stick to Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM). | |||
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| Cruising the Highway to Hell  |
rush.orientation.jumps “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” ― Ronald Reagan Retired old fart | |||
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Unflappable Enginerd |
Fucking.Stupid.Idea?  __________________________________ NRA Benefactor I lost all my weapons in a boating, umm, accident. http://www.aufamily.com/forums/ | |||
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This Space for Rent |
I tried: This.is.stupid You.are.dumb Go.fuck.yourself And got nothing. We will never know world peace, until three people can simultaneously look each other straight in the eye Liberals are like pussycats and Twitter is Trump's laser pointer to keep them busy while he takes care of business - Rey HRH. | |||
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Comic Relief |
whisker.tango.foxtrot is in north-east Russia Easier to remember than TLA (Three Letter Acronyms)? LOL | |||
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A Grateful American |
One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small. Stop taking the pills with bong water. Quit licking windows, stop sniffing glue. However, the paint chips are now safe to eat. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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| In search of baseball, strippers, and guns |
I don’t get it I get three completely different words depending on which part of my house I put the marker in. —————————————————— If the meek will inherit the earth, what will happen to us tigers? | |||
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Info Guru |
It's a 3 meter grid, so that makes sense. However, I still don't get the problem that this solution is trying fix. “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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| Chip away the stone |
The problem they are trying to fix is you have money, and they want some of it | |||
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| Eating elephants one bite at a time |
Lol, somehow I knew this would challenge some. It is okay to look at things from a different angle. I don't see this getting that big, but interesting that Mercedes decided to add it to their nav systems. It is just another tool to have in a toolbox... P E A C E | |||
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W07VH5 |
fondle.my.buttocks pining.for.fjords | |||
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| Eating elephants one bite at a time |
Red tastes best. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
Wyckoff Heights is the default--you have to pan out and scroll over to your part of the world/country/state/city etc. You can pan back in to get more detail when you get to the right area. My house includes at least a couple of dozen blocks with different 3-word codes. I think the original purpose was for Intelligence organizations to have a reference system that was non-numeric and easier to encode. I heard about it on a recent NCIS episode, but didn't realize it really existed. In that episode, the location words were circled in a book using invisible ink. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| sick puppy |
unarmed.beliefs.deny ____________________________ While you may be able to get away with bottom shelf whiskey, stay the hell away from bottom shelf tequila. - FishOn | |||
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| A Grateful American |
You.Are.Here "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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| In search of baseball, strippers, and guns |
Sure, but with longitude and latitude I still have some sense of direction and knowing because I know how numbers ascend and descend So one point in my house will be different than the other, but because I can see how the numbers changed I can understand the relationship of how my position changed That’s not the case with seemingly unrelated nonsensical words
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Political Cynic |
I have 3 words lat, lon, elevation [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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