UCLA geographer Thomas Gillespie has mapped out the most probable location of Osama bin Laden, using techniques used to locate endangered species (like bin Laden?). Dr. Gillespie even has pinpointed the likely compound that is the bin Laden headquarters. Thoughts?
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The referenced article features a view of the earth with circles of supposed equal probabilities of Bin Laden’s being there superimposed. The spacing between these circles looked logarithmic and some rather inelegant measurements using the image on my computer screen verified my observation. But the image doesn’t quite extend to the diameter of the earth. The antipode of the red dot showing this location would be the zero probability point (in the South Pacific Ocean) I suspect that from the antipode to the hemisphere which is shown in the article would be one log cycle (0 to 10%) and the second log cycle, which I think ought to begin exactly at the edge of the image shown, rather than as shown, for the 10 to 100% probabilities. The geometry of imposing a lineal projection of a log cycle onto a spherical surface is too much for my brain. Anyway I’ll bet Gillespie had fun writing the piece.
Bin Laden was last heard of on VHF radio in December of 2001 in the Khost Province of Afghanistan that the apostate nations had failed him, and that he gave everyone around him his blessings to surrender to american troops except himself. Just ask Dalton Fury.