Re: mapping the world

[Wright Frazier <khelek@ns1.cioe.com>]

oh my god, that is just disgustingly small...  How can after a thousand
years of people expanding and traveling can there be ANYTHING left
to discover?

The land surface area is:(using 5% land)
	11500^2 * 3.14 = 415,265,000 * .05 = 20,763,250 square mets or
	4356^2	* 3.14 = 64,514,102.4* .05 = 3,225,705.12 square miles
The surface area is:(using 10% land)
	41,526,500 square mets
	6,451,410  square mets.

So either a bloack of land 1250 mi on a side or 2500 mi on a side.
that is pretty damn small for hundreds of years of exploration and
expansion, and considering a sizeable part of that is random
sandbars and islands.

also, just a note, earth is 200 million square miles in size(assuming
a perfect sphere, as do all my calculations), and has a land surface
area of about 50,240,000 square miles.

While this is doable, it is just increadibly small.  The population
on Jaern must just be TINY for surface dwelling races.

Also note that Geleia is only about 340,000 square miles.  So yeah
if we suspend disbeleif, we can still have the exploration thing,
but honestly, there would be NOTHING left to explore after so long
and boat distances being so short.

Bleh, math sucks, I much prefered it when I didn't have a definate
set of numbers for the land mass of Jaern.

Wright


> 
> My AQ manual gives a bunch of interesting clues.
> 
> The planet has a diameter of 11,500 mets.
> 
> Lojem is on the 70 degree lattitude line (wonder why they didn't
> claim zero since they were here first?)
> 
> Lojem is about 3000 mets (apx 30% north longitude) north of
> equator.
> 
> So... we have Lojem (30% north longitude, 70 degrees latitude).
> 
> The Sylvan isles are on the opposite side of the world at:
> 30% south longitude, 250 degrees lattitude (does lattitude
> go from 0-360 or 0-180 and have east/west?).
> 
> Centralia is also opposite Lojem (similar reasoning) but 
> further north: 60% north longitute, 250 degrees lattitude.
> 
> at the equator, 1 degree is approximately 100.3 mets. So if we
> assume that the world is a perfect sphere (*grin*) We see that
> from Lojem to the Sylvan isles is half a circumference or about
> 18063.625 mets. Since a met is 2000 feet, that is 6842.28 miles.
> Most Jaernian ships go from 10-15 mets/hour... so it'd be
> about 50-75  days going 24 hours/day no stops. A Jaernian month
> is 30 days so... reality says there will be a stop or two and
> that a direct path might not be possible. so on a fast boat
> 2 months is about max... three closer to average.
> 
> Since Centralia is straight north of Galeia the math is
> pretty easy there as well. Again assuming a sphere we
> draw an equatorial line from Galia to Centralia. Since we
> have already determined that one degree along such a line
> is about 100.3 mets we get 90 degrees times 100.3 or
> 9027 mets... about half the distance from Lojem to Galeia, so
> half the boat time. Pretty straight forward. Centralia is also
> the same distance to Lojem if you go over the pole. Closer if
> you take a straight line. Centralia to Lojoem is about a
> month and a half.
> 
> Jeff TP created an island called Southern Judas that exists about
> a month southwest of Centralia... about a half month northeast
> of Lojem... its a small, small world.
> 
> It also means that no place on the planet is more than a 4 month
> boat trip. Since most of the land mass is little tiny islands
> , and coasts are easier to map than interior, its probably a
> safe assumptiont hat most of the world has been mapped and the
> only exploration that could be done is the interior of islands
> too big to just see across :)
> 
> Given the above I'm going to put coordinates to the Rhine
> Archipelago (where Centralia is) and mark out that region
> as the Centralia Setting.
> 					-Steve
>