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In article <30lqjg$2g4@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>, claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird) writes:
|> In article <30jevt$cm4@lll-winken.llnl.gov>,
|> William S. Lawson <lawson@pax.llnl.gov> wrote:
|> >
|> >In article <30iv17INN1dgm@sat.ipp-garching.mpg.de>, bds@ipp-garching.mpg.de (Bruce       Scott          TK  ) writes:
|> >|> Sorry, I forgot to add this: sound waves are likely to dissipate before
|> >|> reaching all the way around to the other side (much as blasts such as that
|> >|> from the Krakatau volcano in the 1880s did not reach all the way around the
|> >|> Earth).
|> >
|> >Hmm, I was once told by an applied math professor (Don Cohen) that the shock
|> >wave from Krakatoa knocked down huts at the antipodes seven times.  He
|> >threatened to assign us the problem, but never got around to it.
|> >        -- Bill Lawson
|> 
|> Krakatoa (Krakatau, ...):  6 S latitude, 105 E longitude (approximately)
|> 
|> 6 N, 105 W is a few hundred kilometers west north west of the Galapagos.
|> As far as I know, there is no land closer than tiny Clipperton Island.
|> Is Professor Cohen know for his humor?

Yes, but he didn't seem to be joking.  The antipodes of 6 S 105 E is, however,
6 N 75 W, which is in central Columbia.
       -- Bill Lawson