Ranger Archive
Thread: How high have you been?
Almagill
Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:41 pm
#14
Ranger_Nizzle wrote:how high? well, there was this one time when--*cough*
/slap silly ranger..
cos I was actually coming in here to do the very same thread.
OK folks, challenge time.
Highest and Lowest points on each planet! Who'll be first to post the complete set of wp's (Do we ask for screenies as proof?)
Temujin23
Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:29 pm
#15
Um...
How is 'sea level' calculated on tat? And don't say in relation to the dune sea because that hardly counts.
al-djinn'i
Master Ranger/TKM
Tarantas
Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:11 am
#17
Can't say I've noticed any geodesists out there in the wilds but I suspect that any elevations will be to a reference ellipsoid rather then sea level which in itself really isn't a very useful global measuring surface, especially on Tat! Maybe one of the future survey devices will be a gravity tool 
Regards
Tar
Regards
Tar
Calculus_Entropy
Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:13 am
#18
Tarantas wrote:
Can't say I've noticed any geodesists out there in the wilds but I suspect that any elevations will be to a reference ellipsoid rather then sea level which in itself really isn't a very useful global measuring surface, especially on Tat! Maybe one of the future survey devices will be a gravity tool
Regards
Tar
I smell a geologist or geographist...
Tarantas
Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:24 am
#19
Calculus_Entropy wrote:
Tarantas wrote:
Can't say I've noticed any geodesists out there in the wilds but I suspect that any elevations will be to a reference ellipsoid rather then sea level which in itself really isn't a very useful global measuring surface, especially on Tat! Maybe one of the future survey devices will be a gravity tool
Regards
Tar
I smell a geologist or geographist...
Please, geologist, or rather ex one. We get to play with the big hammers and yes, after several days in the field can get a bit pongy so you were right about being able to smell one
Calculus_Entropy
Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:32 am
#20
I lost my rock hammer, so they made me move into the office. Now I get to look at well logs and the computer screen instead of rocks! And I honestly assumed you were a geologist, as I couldn't relly see a geographer knowing too much about a gravity survey tool... Wow, this got dorky real quick 
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Wow, this got dorky real quick .
Owen-Lars
Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:32 am
#21
lol good call calc.
Dont you do something to do with geology or something along those lines? Im sure ive heard you talking about it before.
Calculus_Entropy
Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:34 am
#22
I am a nasty, evil, petroleum geologist (though I mostly look for natural gas). I am a part Little Gas and not Big Oil (I work for a consulting firm, not a major company).
Owen-Lars
Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:38 am
#23
Cool, i can remember you saying something about it when you where talking to me and phen about our slacker student ways
"though I mostly look for natural gas"
Nice, i mostly preduce natural gas.
Tarantas
Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:41 am
#24
Calculus_Entropy wrote:I lost my rock hammer, so they made me move into the office. Now I get to look at well logs and the computer screen instead of rocks! And I honestly assumed you were a geologist, as I couldn't relly see a geographer knowing too much about a gravity survey tool...
Ouch, sorry to hear about the hammer loss
I started as a mining geologist, went into remote sensing and am now a business analyst. Strangely, I'm working on a project with some geodesists and to put it mildly am very scared by the whole geodesy thing these days as conversations rapidly spiral way over my head
Calculus_Entropy
Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:56 am
#25
Tarantas wrote:
Calculus_Entropy wrote:
I lost my rock hammer, so they made me move into the office. Now I get to look at well logs and the computer screen instead of rocks! And I honestly assumed you were a geologist, as I couldn't relly see a geographer knowing too much about a gravity survey tool...
Ouch, sorry to hear about the hammer loss
I started as a mining geologist, went into remote sensing and am now a business analyst. Strangely, I'm working on a project with some geodesists and to put it mildly am very scared by the whole geodesy thing these days as conversations rapidly spiral way over my head
Meh, science is all made up anyway.
frightwig
Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:18 am
#26
Tarantas wrote:
Can't say I've noticed any geodesists out there in the wilds but I suspect that any elevations will be to a reference ellipsoid rather then sea level which in itself really isn't a very useful global measuring surface, especially on Tat! Maybe one of the future survey devices will be a gravity tool
Regards
Tar
I don't know about the other planets, but Naboo seems to be 0 (zero) at the top of the cliffs. The ground and coastline below actually sits at least 100m below "0". So we know 0 doesn't mean sea level, at least on naboo.
Has anyone checked 0,0? (center map) Does it say 0, 0, 0 now? Or is the Z coordinate different for all planets? I'd suspect the center of the map represents 0 elevation on the Z coordinate, and that's our "sea level", but I'm too lazy to check for myself.
/sendsOutServantsToCheckForHim