RE: [PHP] Re: Google Maps Distance Between UK Postcodes

> -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:news@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Colin Guthrie > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 3:15 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Re: Google Maps Distance Between UK Postcodes > > Boyd, Todd M. wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: tedd > > >> Considering that my other profession is Geophysicist, I'm kind of up > >> on those sort of things. The Earth is an oblate spheroid and the > >> computation to include the curvature of the earth would be a bit > more > >> involved. > > > > ---8<--- snip > > > > But it's also NOT an oblate spheroid! :) > > > > > > http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/08/ten-things- > you > > -dont-know-about-the-earth/ > > Todd Vs. Tedd: A deathmatch separated only by one vowel! FIIIIIIGHT!!! Willing to bet I've lost this one already, seeing as how I've never been (and likely never will be) a geophysicist. :) I took an Astronomy class a few years ago, but I couldn't tell you what the Chandrasekhar Limit is now if my life depended on it. I just thought it was pretty neat that I'd read that article maybe two days ago, having almost never heard the word "oblate" or "spheroid" (let alone used together in a sentence), and tedd mentions the very same thing soon after. I couldn't resist the rebuttal. Heh... Todd Boyd Web Programmer