Jim Penniston's Binary Code Coordinates

[pickinduck]

The binary code coordinates that Jim Penniston received from touching the UFO in the Rendlesham Forest can't be the locations they are reporting because aliens might use our equator and latitude but they almost certainly would not use our prime meridian and longitude. It's very arbitrary and we are selves have even changed it. Think about it, what would we use to set up a grid pattern on an alien world? There are several thing we could use. If it spins on an axis we would find the equator for latitude but what would we use as a prime meridian for longitude? I heard it said on a TV show that the pyramids are located at the exact center of all the land masses of Earth. Seems like a good place to start from and try to see where they line up with that.

[pickinduck]

What did we designate for establishing a prime meridian for the Earths Moon and Mars. Since the Moon has a light and dark side (or more correctly put, a side that always faces Earth) that junction was probably it? What did they use for Mars?
An alien race that encounters many planets you would think would have a standard operating procedure for establishing a grid patterns for planets.
Jim Penniston said he thinks the craft was from us in the future. Even if it is everything I said holds true.

[pickinduck]

Maybe I should have said the line of demarcation from light to dark side when it exists at a certain point?

[sherlew99]

Nov 30, 2013 8:23:38 GMT -6 pickinduck said:

What did we designate for establishing a prime meridian for the Earths Moon and Mars. Since the Moon has a light and dark side (or more correctly put, a side that always faces Earth) that junction was probably it? What did they use for Mars?
An alien race that encounters many planets you would think would have a standard operating procedure for establishing a grid patterns for planets.
Jim Penniston said he thinks the craft was from us in the future. Even if it is everything I said holds true.

According to Wikispaces: "On Earth this prime meridian passes through a point in Greenwich, England. On the Moon, the origin of the coordinate system passes through the point that is most nearly, on average, pointed towards the center of the Earth."

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On Mars it's a crater named "Airy-0"

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[pickinduck]

The moon one is better then what I came up with.
For Mars it is base on an historical point.
Does it look like we haven't established a standard operating procedure for locating the prime meridian on other planets?

[sherlew99]

Here we go, I found the prime meridians for Venus and the Sun. Finding it on the gas giants are said to be difficult.

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Ah, here's the one for Mercury.

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[pickinduck]

So if it's an orbiting body that doesn't rotate we find the center of the inward face. We could use that for both P.M. and equator.
We still need to come up with a standardized way of establishing a P.M. for rotating orbiting bodied and what about asteroids and comets?
If humanity is really to become space travelers we need a S.O.P. for doing this.

[pickinduck]

As viewed from space coming towards a non rotating orbiting body wouldn't it be easier to use something other then the center of the inward face for establishing a P.M. or equator?

[sherlew99]

I don't know. It's a possibility that someone may come up with something different that works better.

[pickinduck]

Why can't that someone be us?

[sherlew99]

Well, you can give it a go if you like.

[pickinduck]

I was starting to draw a picture of you and a cat in a spaceship approaching a planet that we could use as a visual aid in trying to figure things out.

[sherlew99]

LOL well that will be fun. Just a spaceship would work as well.

[pickinduck]

I was just wondering about the pyramids being located at the exact center of all the worlds land masses. How did they figure that out?
Did they look back to when all the land masses were connected like Pangea?

[sherlew99]

I doubt it. Wikipedia kind of explains it. It's getting late and I should take a crack at this later.

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