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dementia@cheshire.oxy.edu (Daniel Steven Reinker) writes:

>Here is something I've been trying to figure out lately. I'm not
>sure if there is actually an answer, but there must be.

>Say I live in Hawaii and go to Los Angeles for college. While
>I am in Los Angeles, I discover that I have the ability to fly
>at a fast speed. Now, I decide that since I can fly, I should
>be able to fly back home to Hawaii. Consider that I am a college
>student with about $50 in cash and a library at my disposal. How
>can I navigate my way to make sure that I arrive in Hawaii?

>Hiz Lord Dementia
>-- 
>"You can't help that. We're all mad here."-The cheshire cat, Alice in WL

>"A mass hysteria/a megalomania/reveal Dementia/reveal"-Metallica

You could follow a commercial airliner, if you can keep up.  Just go
to the airport and wait for a departing flight.

Assuming you aren't up to such speeds...

Get an AM radio.  Find the frequency for some radio station in Hawaii.
It would as probably be helpful to find the approximate direction to
Hawaii, so you know which direction to start.  Go in your initial
direction until you can recieve the radio station.  Determine in which
direction your radio is most sensitive by tuning an LA station as you
leave and note which direction you must point your radio for best
reception.  When you are in the vicinity of Hawaii (within several
hundred miles at night), you should be able to follow the signal in.
As you get closer, the signal may be strong in all directions, so you
may have to switch to a low-power station so you can determine
direction more accurately.  Hopefully, this should get you close
enough to follow city lights in at night, or perhaps sea traffic
during the day.

This is just one idea. I could probably come up with several others if
I thought about it.  One problem is that the AM radio can not tell you
if you are moving towards or away from the transmitter, so you may
have to backtrack if you discover you are getting farther away and the
reception becomes worse.  Send me a postcard when you get there.

Robert Brunner
brunner@uirvld.csl.uiuc.edu