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Old Tue Jan 08, 2013, 02:36pm
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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn View Post
At 41.6 degrees latitude, you've moving at 74.77980905% of that - or 775.87 mph, just around the center of the earth.
Cool. Did you use your slide rule to figure out the cosine of 41.6 degrees? That would be ubercool.
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