Thread: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2
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Originally Posted by M. Krass View Post
Can someone point out again from where you've all decided these coordinates land on a lamp post?

Google Maps suggests there's something there, but upon viewing pictures of the area on Flickr and other aerial photography from local.live.com, I think what we're seeing are some unfortunate people that don't even realize the amount of time and effort people are spending trying to figure out what they have in common with a FIRST game.
Madison makes an excellent point. We should not assume that any precision, short of the best possible from the given data, will be 'close enough' to correctly interpret this clue. In all likelihood this clue comes from the mind of a person who is concerned with the precise location (to the nearest centimeter or so) of an 8'L x 5'W x 5'H machine that is currently about 55 million miles from Earth -- and most of the time it is not that close! Angles measured to the millionth a degree are just dry routine for a person like that.
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