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WitP and Geography - 4/23/2008 10:39:29 PM   
Knavey

 

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I bet most people who read this article have NO idea where any of these locations are...except maybe Hawaii.

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RE: WitP and Geography - 4/23/2008 10:50:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		It's way out there. I was surfing around last night, and found a site dedicated to some lunatic HAM radio guys who transmitted for a while from Kingman Reef.

http://www.qsl.net/krpdxg/krpics.html

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RE: WitP and Geography - 4/24/2008 2:38:00 AM   
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"A threeeee hour tour... a threeeee hour tour..."

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RE: WitP and Geography - 4/24/2008 2:42:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		I keep hearing various bases/islands being named in movies I watch.
For example, I was watching the cheesy remake of King Kong(1976 version) on AMC and Surabaya was to be radioed to get the Chloroform air dropped to put Kong to sleep and Singapore was where Dwan was headed when they found her on that little boat.
Drives me nuts ever since I started playing WitP.

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RE: WitP and Geography - 4/24/2008 3:51:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		Funny regarding WW II and geography. I was always a WW II nut. In junior high I took a geography class and completely amazed the teacher that I knew off the top of my head every country in Europe and where it was located. All the other students just sort of sat there perplexed when the teacher asked us to name the countries he was pointing to.

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RE: WitP and Geography - 4/24/2008 6:25:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		I had a similar experience in 6th grade, Gary. My teacher would do a weekly geography quiz by calling out a student's name and then a location for him to locate on the world map. She quickly learned that she had to come up with more difficult ones for me. The average student might get "Spain" or "Moscow". For me it would be places like Odessa (do you mean Texas or the Ukraine, Ms Robinson?) or Sumatra...

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RE: WitP and Geography - 4/24/2008 6:49:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		My father called me "a storehouse of useless knowledge."  I suspect nearly all of us WitP players share that - we just like some unusual stuff like knowing where Ceram is, appreciating the irony in Lt. Gen. Buckner dying for the "Union," and knowing by sight a host of obscure aircraft.  But, hey, you dudes that get Feinder's "what ship is this?" in 20 seconds based upon the length of the foremast radio antenna are freaking weird....

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RE: WitP and Geography - 4/24/2008 7:14:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		WitP has helped me get all those little places in the Pacific. I even know what island some of those football players in Hawaii come from when they show it (Pago Pago was the last one I remember). 

However, except for the north and south parts of Africa, I have troubles with many of the smaller countries on the west coast.  When I do get their names, they have a regime change and then they change the names.

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RE: WitP and Geography - 4/24/2008 1:41:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		Someone needs to instruct Google Earth on where Wake Island and Midway are; if you type either of those names into their search engine, the program takes you to Palmyra!

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RE: WitP and Geography - 4/25/2008 1:26:44 AM   
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ORIGINAL: witpqs

They have to wait for paperwork to be rescued!!!


Obviously there wasn't another aircraft available with the range to go and get them. Getting another aircraft modified to do the job and approved by the FAA in a timely manner would have been no mean achievement!!!

And yes the paperwork still needs to be done and standards maintained. Can you imagine the repercussions if all these people disappeared into the ocean on the 1000 mile trip back due to a backyard unapproved modification....


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RE: WitP and Geography - 4/25/2008 5:55:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		You'd have really blown your teachers mind if you proceeded to tell him where such locations as Kolomangara and Vella Gulf could be found (nothing as easy as where Guadalcanal or Midway are located)
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ORIGINAL: Gary Childress

Funny regarding WW II and geography. I was always a WW II nut. In junior high I took a geography class and completely amazed the teacher that I knew off the top of my head every country in Europe and where it was located. All the other students just sort of sat there perplexed when the teacher asked us to name the countries he was pointing to.



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RE: WitP and Geography - 4/25/2008 8:46:24 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Reg

Can you imagine the repercussions if all these people disappeared into the ocean on the 1000 mile trip back due to a backyard unapproved modification....


Well fed sharks and crabs?

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RE: WitP and Geography - 4/25/2008 8:18:02 PM   
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ORIGINAL: witpqs

They have to wait for paperwork to be rescued!!!

"A threeeee hour tour... a threeeee hour tour..."

Should have called Jimmy Buffett and had him hang a couple of drop tanks under the wings of his SA-16 pre-approved.

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RE: WitP and Geography - 4/25/2008 9:19:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wargaming as a kid taught me so much geography that I went on to college and majored in it. Becoming a geography professor has been a good career choice, but I was always asked what I was going to do with a geography major, so I also got a degree in (petroleum) geology. All of my friends that went into geology "where the money was" have had to deal with a lifetime of boom-bust cycles, whereas geography has been lucrative and steadily growing over time (GPS, GIS, etc.).

For enjoyment, I now teach a class on military geography (e.g., the role of physical and cultural geography in military operations) and give a map exercise where students have to locate some basic geographic features that we discuss in class (Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Luzon, etc.). Many students believe it is one of the most tedious exercises possible because finding places on Google Earth and then trying to relocate them on a paper map takes a lot of time. A few of the bright ones sometimes find a military history atlas and complete the task much quicker. Nevertheless, it is shocking how ignorant most college students are of basic geography (e.g., China, Japan, Vietnam), much less the geography of Oceania.

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RE: WitP and Geography - 4/25/2008 9:32:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		My wife enjoys watching Survivor and I often watch it with her. Many of these have taken place on Pacific islands. I think the first was on Borneo and to it's, oh yeah, those Islands I had to defend with the Dutch Brewster Buffaloes, Hudsons, and funny looking Seaplane torpedo bombers.

The current series just had a reward challenge where the winner got to attend a feast on Yap. My wife's amazed that I can pick up the globe and in an instance point out Yap on a map.

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