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Find Benghazi
« on: June 18, 2014, 01:41:39 PM »
WaPo article on Benghazi now that we capture one of the perps.  (Hiding in plain sight, giving interviews, not very smart, but I digress).

Drag the pin to where you think Benghazi is on the map.  


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/can-you-find-benghazi/

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You were 21 miles away. You’re a geography wizard.

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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2014, 01:56:20 PM »
255miles :(
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2014, 01:59:10 PM »
Quote from: brimic on June 18, 2014, 01:56:20 PM
255miles :(

476 miles.
At the scale of that map it like playing pin the tail on the donkey with lawn darts from 100 yards.
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2014, 01:59:51 PM »
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You were 25 miles away. You’re a geography wizard.

Some of that error is monitor resolution on my end, I should have zoomed in closer.
I kind of have sort of almost but not quite been there, sort of. Visual targeting range, anyway.
We spent most of a month keeping very close tabs on a Libyan, former Soviet, Victor class submarine way back in the long ago and were back and forth across "The line of death" so many time I lost count.
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2014, 02:22:53 PM »
236 miles.  Meh, could be worse.
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2014, 02:30:10 PM »
300 miles. In other words: I knew where Libya was, and I knew it was a coastal city. I wonder how hard it would be for me to pick my hometown from a blank map of the world and a small interface.

I didn't cheat or zoom.
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2014, 02:50:27 PM »
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300 miles. In other worlds. I knew where Libya was, and I knew it was a coastal city.
That's what I did too.
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2014, 02:59:35 PM »
357.  Goofed and ended up about 50 miles off the coast because I didn't zoom in.

I almost ended up in Morocco, the pin was jumping around as I dragged it.
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2014, 03:10:35 PM »
Quote from: RevDisk on June 18, 2014, 02:30:10 PM
300 miles. In other worlds. I knew where Libya was, and I knew it was a coastal city. I wonder how hard it would be for me to pick my hometown from a blank map of the world and a small interface.

I didn't cheat or zoom.

Ditto for me. I knew it was the eastern side of Libya and near the coast. I messed up on where the border with Egypt was.
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2014, 03:20:00 PM »
593. That's terrible.
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2014, 03:27:40 PM »
Quote from: Monkeyleg on June 18, 2014, 03:20:00 PM
593. That's terrible.

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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2014, 03:30:20 PM »
91 miles :cool:
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2014, 03:43:45 PM »
I am just glad inside the country of Libya.  If I knew it was on the coast, I would have done better than 269 miles.
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2014, 03:46:16 PM »
13 miles  [tinfoil]
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #14 on: June 18, 2014, 04:48:42 PM »
"You were 29 miles away. You’re a geography wizard."

I knew where Egypt was, and just kind of guessed how far west to go along the Mediterranean.
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #15 on: June 18, 2014, 05:00:16 PM »
Quote from: onions! on June 18, 2014, 01:59:10 PM
476 miles.

About the same here. For some reason I was thinking it was inland and south of Tripoli, instead of east along the coast.  :facepalm:
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #16 on: June 18, 2014, 05:02:11 PM »
64 miles away.  i'm claiming "good enough" as I did not have my reading glasses on.

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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #17 on: June 18, 2014, 05:05:10 PM »
20,840 miles.
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #18 on: June 18, 2014, 05:06:48 PM »
200 and change.  Had it on the south/southeast part of the gulf.
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #19 on: June 18, 2014, 05:10:28 PM »
105 here
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #20 on: June 18, 2014, 05:18:59 PM »
Quote from: Ben on June 18, 2014, 05:05:10 PM
20,840 miles.

How did you do that?
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #21 on: June 18, 2014, 05:28:35 PM »
Quote from: zxcvbob on June 18, 2014, 05:18:59 PM
How did you do that?

The earth is a ball. :)
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #22 on: June 18, 2014, 05:34:07 PM »
Quote from: Ben on June 18, 2014, 05:28:35 PM
The earth is a ball. :)

Yes, but it's not *that* big of a ball...
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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #23 on: June 18, 2014, 05:36:39 PM »
Quote from: lupinus on June 18, 2014, 03:46:16 PM
13 miles  [tinfoil]

Me too. I was a tiny bit south. I can pretty much pick out where Tripoli, Tobruk and Benghazi is.

I can draw the line of death across the Gulf of Sidra without any problems also.   =|

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Re: Find Benghazi
« Reply #24 on: June 18, 2014, 05:40:32 PM »
Quote from: zxcvbob on June 18, 2014, 05:34:07 PM
Yes, but it's not *that* big of a ball...

21,137-297=20,840. I took the long way around.
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