Imagine you're suddenly gifted with the ability to instantly teleport to random coordinates anywhere on Earth's surface. Just think; anytime you experience boredom, flex your will and you find yourself someplace else--faster than you can blink. This ability would be even handier whenever you find yourself in grave danger; with a thought, you could vanish instantly and appear somewhere else, leaving disaster behind.
The drawback, though, is obvious; statistically, you're likely to wind up in a body of water 70% of the time--and even that might be better than blinking back into existence at the edge of a cliff, at the South Pole, or into the caldera of an active volcano. Of course, if you react quickly enough, you can teleport somewhere else, presumably someplace safer.
Using this random generator of geographic coordinates, I ran ten trials of this power. Here's where I landed:
1. Almost 12 km west of Tacuaritas, Argentina; a swamp
2. A little over 297 km west of Gambier, French Polynesia; the Pacific Ocean
3. 400 km south southwest of Ball’s Pyramid, New South Wales, Australia; the Pacific Ocean
4. 685 km south southeast of Christmas Island, Australia; the Indian Ocean
5. 301 km east of Woolgooolga, New South Wales, Australia; the Pacific Ocean
6. 126 km north of Cefalu, Sicily, Italy; the Tyrrhenian Sea
7. 1, 201 km north northwest of Cabo Verde; the Atlantic Ocean
8. 15 km north northwest of Avia Terai, Argentina; farmland
9. 81 km west of Oroek, Russia; tundra
10. 883 km south of St Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha; the Atlantic Ocean
3 comments:
This is fascinating! I love it. I will use it to generate places for me to visit in Microsoft Flight Simulator. I very much enjoy flying in the virtual skies above places I've read about.
Sahara desert, middle, sand plains near the central mountains
Ocean, 500km S of Tasmania
Ocean, halfway between Borneo and Viet Nam
Ocean, 300 km E of Jamestown, St. Helena, halfway between Brazil & Namibia
Ocean, halfway between Rapa and Raivavai, Micronesia
Ocean, 1000km E of New Zealand
Ocean, off the coast of Baja California, San Filipe
Ocean, 100 KM W of Novaya Zemlya, 10 degrees south of the North Pole
Ocean, 200 KM E of Stuge Island, just north of Antarctica
Russian tundra, halfway between Kransoyarsk and Yakutsk
Jamestown might be really interesting. It's a dot in the ocean, but millions of years ago when the continents were more Pangaeaic, a very large meteor made out of black diamond smashed into the Earth there. The only way to make black diamond is in a fusion blast, typically when a star explodes in a supernova. Over time, fragments from the meteor have travelled through ocean currents to Brazil and up anddown the coast of Africa and Western Europe. Likely, the motherlode still exists somewhere in the ocean off of St. Helena.
Rapa (and Nui) are gorgeous and tropical. They are represented well in MSFS.
I hadn't considered visiting your teleport locations virtually via MFS--awesome! And I didn't know about black diamond. Very cool!
You can enter co-ordinates on the MSFS map either as standard or GPS numbers, and the game takes you there. You can start aloft or on the ground. Or in my case, on the water.
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