>>4360752>prove latitude/longitude argumentOkay, simple as fuck math
The area of a circle is defined as A = πr^2, where π is the pi constant and r is the radius of the circle in question. As r increases in size, area increases exponentially, meaning that the distance between two points further down in a circle will become unlinearly larger and larger depending on the angle of the two points latitude and longitude wise. On a globe, this problem is solved because both latitude and longitude are exponentially increasing relative to a pole until it reaches it's furthest point at the equator, by then which going any further has it decrease again.
Right Ascension and Declination are literally the same as this but on a z-axis, so they too fail for the circle for the same rease latitude/longitude does.
>logisticsUh huh, Antartica is guarded.
Really now.
Let's say you have the patrol line for boats on the Southern sea roughly 16,500 km, only 300 km away from the tip of Argentina. And we want each boat to have an equally distant spaced patrol area of, oh... 10 km for each boat along the line. Assuming modern equipment destroyers so that it has good detection, and relatively low cost for stopping civilian vessels.
Let's plug this in to find how many boats we need.
Circumference = 2πr
C = 2π(16,500)
C = 33000π
C = 104,000 km
# of boats = 104,000/10
# of boats = 10,400 destroyers
This is a stupidly large fucking fleet of ships, of which literally no seaport has the viable resources nor setting to build even considering a possible conjunction between every NATO member for 40 years to build without rousing severe suspicion.
This also doesn't account for the amount of people necessary to crew those ships, maintain them, as well as the resources needed to stay fueled and feed the sailors on said vessels.
>sun orbitSun somehow has a "lampshade" that can shapeshift to account for equinoxes to keep amount of sunlight on a singular anglular limit.
(PT 1)
