Not too much.
Another often thrown out sciency statistic is map locations - degrees latitude and longitude are readily available across the Net. This is a dangerous game to be, well, positioning yourself in.
Let's say you get the bright idea to report that what happened in Oakland has gematria of 122, which is one of its GPS coordinates.
Yes. I'll grant you that. Expressed as decimal instead of with minutes and seconds any reasonable mathematician would round down and call it 122 degrees.
Very few places can claim to be exactly on a meridian line. Oakland is the same. So right away we're shaving things down to a two or three digit number. How convenient. And as the parallels extend in the four compass directions what cities that are not Oakland did the NIPTUCKs decide to ignore.
The other parallel is even worse. More than one state, the borders of some states are defined by the 37th parallel. Which appears to be important. XXX state is the XX number state to join the US and has that same number. Yep...they do that all the time. And the gematria powers that be really screwed you over with the degrees and minutes there. As a decimal Oakland is located at 37.8. Round up? Shave the .8? Use either and risk objection to either..because Stephen Curry is not going to bail you out by scoring exactly 37.8 points in a game?
And as a side note, what do you do about Kansas City? It's kind of in two different states. Is this the location of the NIPTUCK retirement home, gematria asylum and misfit toys that don't have a specific state to be in?
Naturally when this is quoted in the audio of a YouTube production it is.."xxx is ON..." when you can betcha it's really just an arbitrary "close enough".
The list of science blunders is not limited to just what I've mentioned so far. I have others to discuss in the book and good material for my next Nancy Drool story.
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