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Claudio González
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August 6, 2005
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Still no supervision in the French and Spanish forums?

  • August 6, 2005
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I forgot that threads are extremely short lived in this forum, and the discussion that really began within an unrelated thread, here

Pierre Courtejoie, "Shouldn't these links be removed as soon as possible?" #8, 27 Feb 2005 1:21 pm

has already gone to the Archives, where it is in danger of going to the limbus in the near future.

I still think that this is an important issue, and still wait to see any improvement in those forums showing that the messages by Pierre and myself on the subject have not fallen in a void. Although we both value and thank Neil Keller for his attempts to get some reaction in higher quarters, his attempts have unfortunately been a failure.

It is pathetic to see pages in the forums in Spanish with templates that are written in a mixture of English and a very bad Spanish. It is even more pathetic that JC stopped more than a year ago feeling authorized to introduce any non trivial change to improve this situation. The worst part is however to feel that there is no one listening, or at least willing to admit that there might be problems in those forums.

I feel very disappointed.
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    Jacob Bugge
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    January 15, 2007
    Long time no see, Pierre.
    PECourtejoie
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    January 15, 2007
    Hello, indeed!
    Claudio González
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    January 3, 2007
    Well, in the particular case of Chile, which is a very narrow and long country, during the day we have the Andes to orient ourselves...
    Jacob Bugge
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    January 3, 2007
    Claudio,

    Especially during the day you will still have to know the positions at different times.

    By the way, did you know that the trees follow the sun, so much so that they twist slightly? The safest way to determine whether timber comes from the north or from the south.
    Claudio González
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    January 3, 2007
    Jacob, I don't know about the northern hemisphere, but I do know a number of people around here who can orient themselves using the stars -myself included. Of course, we are unlucky in not having the equivalent of the North Star. But things are changing rapidly since the advent of GPS, so I am afraid we are talking of a dying science/art. Except perhaps for those fishermen who still go out in oar propelled boats, of which we have a non negligible number in Chile. And a few others like them.
    Jacob Bugge
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    January 3, 2007
    Claudio, I take it that in the north you have not needed to find your way through forests and over mountains and plains by the sun, the moon, and the stars.
    Claudio González
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    January 3, 2007
    Well, I would never had guessed you were talking about that kind of reversal. As a matter of fact, I have never noticed it while in the Northern hemisphere. Although I have noticed thay our North looking windows become South looking over there. :-)
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    January 3, 2007
    My mind has just boggled! :o
    Jacob Bugge
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    January 3, 2007
    Claudio,

    >The sun and the moon rise from the East and set in the West, same as there.

    I know, but up here the midday sun is in the south, as is the moon at its highest; so when we face it, it moves from the left where it rises to the right where it sets.
    Claudio González
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    January 3, 2007
    Jacob, they don't. The sun and the moon rise from the East and set in the West, same as there. You do get a completely different view of the stars, though: Orion looks upside down, and you can see the Southern Cross almost all night long, whereas it is hardly seen in the Northern hemisphere.