GR translation: and even closer to true north

[David Morris]

All ot these musings are not "translation," are they?  But they are fun.

David Morris

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Norwich would certainly be a more northerly bearing (from any site) than
> London. Walcheren is south of the Netherlands site we see most of (near the
> Hague), but Staveren (or Stavoren) is north of it. I don't know enough
> about the distribution of all the other launching sites to be sure, but I
> get the same impression you do: the ones picked out here wouldn't pull the
> vector sum of 3000+ operational firings of the A4 north much, if at all.
> (Most of the ~300 test launches *were* north-ish from Peenemunde over the
> Baltic, but that doesn't seem enough either)
>
> More broadly: as many USAans (and some UKers) forget because of parochial
> pop history, Antwerp was hit more than all UK and other targets put
> together. As it's south of almost all the Netherlands and much of northern
> Germany, my gut tells me the vector sum would be so near W or even WSW
>  that *nothing*could get it near 354, let alone 360.
>
> You may have caught TRP in some fudging (conscious or unconscious) to link
> the mathematical resultant to the symbolic North he works up for German
> (and Herero) mythology. Or he may be showing us the Counterforce *fooling
> themselves* to align data with pre-existing beliefs, the way ACHTUNG/White
> Visitation (and most readers) fool themselves about Slothrop's map stars as
> evidence for penile precognition.
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 2:32 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> V707.6-15, P721.7-16   So the conferees at the Gross Suckling Conference
>> here, as it will come to be known, sit around a map with their instruments,
>> cigarettes and speculations. Sneer not. Here is one of the great deductive
>> moments in postwar intelligence. Mexico is holding out for a weighting
>> system to make vector lengths proportional to the actual number of firings
>> along each one. Thomas Gwenhidwy, ever sensitive to events in geographical
>> space, wants to take the 1944 Blizna firings (also eastward) into account,
>> which would pull the arrow northward from 354°—and even closer to true
>> north if the firings at London and Norwich from Walcheren and Staveren are
>> also included.
>>
>> The Blizna firings are eastward, "which would pull the arrow northward
>> from 354°".  But the the firings at London and Norwich from Walcheren and
>> Staveren are westward, so how do they pull the arrow "even closer to true
>> north"?
>>
>> I guess this makes sense if the Blizna firings pulls the arrow too much
>> towards the east, and the westward firings would correct that.  However,
>> the real "resultant" of all these firings should point towards south, while
>> the missing arrow would be the opposite of the resultant.  In that case,
>> the eastward firings would actually pull the missing bearing westward.  Am
>> I getting this all wrong?
>>
>
>
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