Where is Barbados?





What: Via Wikipedia, Sagan pointed out that
"all of human history has happened
on that tiny pixel (shown here inside a blue circle),
which is our only home" (speech at Cornell University, October 13, 1994.)



As the crow files. Assuming, of-course, that you are a crow

(or any other bird capable of sustained flight), or, that you

are able to travel via a flying machine of some sort.





What: Pale Red Dot showing Barbados
(with apologies to Pale Blue Dot) via GeoHack - Barbados.



Barbados is an island in the Caribbean. It is not Jamaica.

The Caribbean is a region of land and sea located on the

Planet Earth (around Lat 13 deg N and Long 59 deg W).



Before you go, have you ever thought about how difficult

it is to locate something? Think about it for a second.



If a house guest asks where your bathroom is,

you simply tell him/her (down the hall, first

door on your left or right, whatever).



Easy, right? Deceptively so.



In order for you to give those directions, you had

to know where the hall was to begin with (seeing as

how it's your house, you already knew, but still...)



Put another way, in order for us to locate

something (e.g., Item A) in time and space,

it seems as though we always have to know

the location of an Item B.



But in order for us to locate Item B, we have

to know, once again, where another thing is: Item C.



Boggles the mind, yes? I mean, this sort of thing

could go on forever (but I won't).







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