Re: [GZG] Shipping sheep

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think the revived Battlestar Galactica uses a similar nomenclature, with
the term "keram" (sp?) denoting elevation: "Bogie bearing one four two
keram twenty."

Ken

Doug Evans <devans@nebraska.edu> wrote: I think eventually they decided
something like that, though if you look at
the Franz Joseph stuff, it's incremented 400, not 360 degrees....

Actually, I'm not sure that was the point being discussed at the time; I
can't find any of my copies of the book. Don't ask how I ended up with
several. Packrat-itis.

The_Beast

Ryan wrote on 05/21/2008 01:05:42 PM:

> At 12:37 PM -0500 5/21/08, Doug Evans wrote:
> >I know JMZ seemed to cherish the challenges by the fan base, still,
on
> >listservs, I was reminded of a section from David Gerrold's World of
Star
> >Trek, where he's asking Roddenbery about some arcane fact, probably
the
use
> >of 'mark' when giving courses, and the Great Bird says something like
'it
> >sounded military'.
>
> I thought the coordinate system was degrees on a sphere. After mark
> being the elevation.

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