SUSpilot,
Your ipads, yours, Matt's and Steve Jobs', they're worthless. Get a ruler, a sharp pencil, a protractor, and some eye glasses for God sake. Take that ipad back to the Apple Store and tell Stevie you'd like your money back because it didn't save the dumb astronauts.
You can do this in your head dude. NASA says Tranquility Base is at longitude 23 26' 00" east correct? NASA says that on their LAM 2 Map Tranquility Base is located at longitude line 7.52 correct? The map as marked at the top indicates 23 30' 00" is at LAM 2 map longitude line 7.6 or 7.7 , correct? To make this as favorable for your interpretation as possible, I'll use 7.7, even though 7.6 looks to be a better estimate.
So according to NASA's own map, which they labeled and scaled themselves, Tranquility Base is at east coordinate 23 26' 00" and this is longitude line 7.52 on the LAM 2 map. According to NASA's map as marked, 0.18 map units to the east of 7.52 we have 7.7 which they have clearly marked as longitude line 23 30' 00" correct? But to go from 23 26' 00" to 23 30' 00" is a distance of 4 minutes of arc. According to this map, each longitude line, numbered 1 through 27 across the bottom of the page covers roughly 1.95 minutes of arc. So if 7.52 really were 23 26' 00" east, then given this map's scale, 23 30' 00" would be located 4 minutes of arc divided by 1.95 minutes of arc per LAM 2 longitude line or 2.05 longitude lines to the east of 7.52. That is at LAM 2 Map longitude line 9.57.
But NASA has already labeled LAM 2 map longitude line 7.7 as 23 30' 00" east. According to the LAM 2 map as labeled, longitude line 9.57 then MUST BE 23 33' 39" and very much not 23 30' 00". It cannot have two numbers associated with it. The map would be worthless in that case. It is worthless anyway in a sense, but that is an altogether different story.
So if NASA or anyone else wants to claim that Tranquility Base is located on the LAM 2 Map at longitude line 7.52 which must also be 23 26' 00", the radian measure east coordinate of Tranquility Base, then the map as labeled
shows longitude line 9.57 as BOTH 23 30' 00" AND 23 33' 39". AND EVERY OTHER POINT ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE ON THE ENTIRE MAP WILL LIKEWISE HAVE NOT ONE UNIQUE, BUT RATHER INSTEAD, TWO LONGITUDE VALUES.
Of course this is nonsense. The map as originally labeled shows LAM 2 longitude line 7.6 or 7.7 to be 23 30' 00". Look at the top of the map for yourself SUSpilot. SEE IT THERE IN FRONT OF YOUR EYEBALLS! Skewing the numbers as much to favor a best result for you, I'll use 7.7 . 7.52 is 0.18 map units to the west 0f 7.7 . Each of the 27 map longitude lines, 1 through 27 as numbered and scaled by NASA, are separated one from the other by roughly 1.95 minutes of arc. 1.95 X 0.18 gives 0.351 minutes of arc or 21 seconds.
So if NASA wants to label their map with 23 30' 00" at LAM 2 longitude line 7.7 and scale it with each small box roughly 1.95 minutes of arc on a side AS THEY CLEARLY HAVE, then LAM 2 longitude line 7.52 MUST BE 23 29' 49" and NOT NOT NOT 23 26' 00". NASA cannot have it both ways, a phony map and real astronauts. We see if they correct the map to make it real, so each longitude line is associated with a UNIQUE number and each latitude line the same, then in that case, the astronauts POOOF! become phony themselves.
Diagnosis; Worthless ipads
Treatment; SUSpilot, meet Matt out in front of the Apple store. Give your ipads to homeless guys panhandling out in front. They can sell them to the next wave of way way way off base pro Apollo researchers for lunch money and use the meal money balance to party tonight.
