lyremennarekab is in china. whoa.



Beijing: 39° 55' N, 116° 25' E
Boston: 42° 20' N, 71° W

she tells me that every minute you go to bed before midnight counts double. so let's suppose for a minute that she decides to go to bed early. or late. well, whichever. it works out the same way. but anyway, if she goes to bed with her head facing north, she is in a very similar orientation to if she were here in the states and standing up. see visual aid. so she clearly can't be sleeping if she's standing up. and this is just fine because it's about 11:15 pm now, and i say "go to bed, meryl." but as she likely woke up a few hours ago and is standing up and milling about in china having a fantastic time, she is in the proper orientation for sleeping were she here. sleeping while facing north, that is. so everything works out just fine, and hours she is awake before noon count double because they would be hours spent lying in bed before midnight were she in the same absolute orientation and here.

spherical geometry is weird.

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RAOK on
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itsasecret on
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That went completely over my head.  I hope that was your goal.
acronymsical on
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part of it is founded off a bit of an inside joke. but it's curiously awesome for me to think that she's a quarter of the way around the earth, and so when she's standing on it, her sense of UP and DOWN are significantly different than ours here. in fact, if you were to draw an arrow UP (or a stick figure) in china and instantly transport that arrow to the usa without changing its direction, it would be pointing sideways (or the stick figure would be lying down) -- hence the crude drawing.
whispertales on
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Damn, she's tall.
acronymsical on
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well, she's the artist, not me. i can get away with drawing such absurdities.
sarahannchina on
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That's very interesting. Good to know. Now if only we could work on the whole 13-hour difference for communication and that circadian rhythm...
ScarletSapphire on
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My grandmother tells me the same thing--except she says hours instead of minutes.  Nonetheless, it fails to cause me to actually get to sleep on time; I just have way too much homework.
ScarletSapphire on
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Oh, and she doesn't add random mathematical calculations.  (She used to be a gradeschool teacher, so I'd find it more than a little bizarre if she did.)
acronymsical on
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oh, neither does meryl. i do that.

 
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