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[Ranger D]

Using an angle generator I found here, and I was able to slap together a rough estimate of where the Stephenville omphalos points to.

This is a six degree angle (or 84 degrees from north) and I used google maps so we don't have to deal with curving arcs and all that. The distance of 3788km should put that somewhere in Wales.

[thebruce]

no the problem though is that one navigating by the omphalos won't have a flat map of the earth. If they're in Stephenville, they can face 24 degrees off scorpio, and continue in that direction for 3788km. Thus ending up near Stuartfield.
I say near because we're not sure the excact number to use, and positioning of the source/destination is key. a couple kilometers could be a different town/city.

But the connection to Stuartfield is just too uncanny...

[ariock]

I Sent an email to Ariadne suggesting that there might be something to see in Arbroath. Specifically at the Sport Centre that looks to be near the intersection of the circle from Stephenville and 110 km from Stuartsfield. This was her response:

[FMG]

[ariock]

[Ranger D]

Ariadne emailed me about the site:

[Tenchizard]

Ok, so I've spent another hour trying to discover where is the omphalos at stephenville trying to take us, and I have two theories:

1- The Scorpio 24 angle is to be taken on a flat map, leading us towards the UK, like many people have stated before

2- The Scorpio 24 angle is to be taken on a true globe, doing heavy math and using true navigation methods. In that case, it takes us right into the ocean, more or less this coordinates: 41.12N 10.49W

If anyone else wants to try his hand at this, here are the tools I've been using for theory 2:
with this you can find a point given an origin, a course (the angle) and a distance
with this you can draw a line from one point to other and get a googlemap automatically

and now, I'm out of ideas...

[xnbomb]

Loxodromes vs. Great Circles

[Weezel]

[Mogeee]

Where E X A C T L Y is Ariadne? Maybe that could help.

[Weezel]

Just had an idea of why some are red and some are green. Perhaps they are sequential. For example, the omph at Stuartville cannot encompass the one at Dongying. There will have to be points in between. Just like traveling from point A - B - C, we need to activate them in the order. So since we have 1, we're looking to activate 2.

.W.

[danteIL]

Still unidentified is the red dot around Denmark.

However, I had two very distinct red dots at approximately the same location. What's up with that?? I am attaching a screencap with them circled -- you'll have to trust me that these are around Denmark -- it's hard to tell without the full globe movement.

EDIT: No one is probably still reading this, but I wanted to add a bit of screencap showing the same phenomenon -- two distinct red dots -- at the India location (again, trust me!).

[aliendial]

I tried a bunch of Danish cities at about the same level of zoom that Stephenville shows up at. But with an english keyboard. So either I missed the city or I need the keyboard. (Or both. ) Need a way to copy/paste onto the command line.

[Weezel]

[FlatCat]

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