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Four ships at the ocean with the same distance
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Four ships are located at the ocean, such that the distance between all four ships is the same.
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Place them on the globe at the vertices of a (large) regular tetrahedron.
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They could all be distance 0 apart, i.e. touching each other. For example, three small ships in a triangular formation (all touching each other) on board a larger shipping vessel.
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At the end of the day, this is probably the one that has actually occurred.
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There is also the possibilty, that on ship is is positioned on a high wave building a tetrahedron with the other three ships.
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@ThomasL that'd be quite the wave, but you could be right
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If we take your phrasing very literally, "the ocean" shouldn't mean more than one ocean. My understanding of geography tells me ships on the surface of any single ocean could not be equidistant. But you never said they were floating on the surface. As @JonMarkPerry suggested, ships should be at the points of a regular tetrahedron, but I would position two ships floating on the ocean surface and two sunken on the floor. That way they don't have to be too far apart.
Inspired by @Jafe's answer... The Starship Enterprise is floating in the ocean, and inside the holodeck there is a blimp airship. Inside the balloon part of the airship there is typical sailboat, and inside the hold of the sailboat there is a "ship-in-a-bottle".
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They could all be distance 0 apart, i.e. touching each other. For example, three small ships in a triangular formation (all touching each other) on board a larger shipping vessel.
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At the end of the day, this is probably the one that has actually occurred.
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There is also the possibilty, that on ship is is positioned on a high wave building a tetrahedron with the other three ships.
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@ThomasL that'd be quite the wave, but you could be right
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– Dark Thunder
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There is also the possibilty, that on ship is is positioned on a high wave building a tetrahedron with the other three ships.
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– ThomasL
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@ThomasL that'd be quite the wave, but you could be right
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There is also the possibilty, that on ship is is positioned on a high wave building a tetrahedron with the other three ships.
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@ThomasL that'd be quite the wave, but you could be right
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At the end of the day, this is probably the one that has actually occurred.
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There is also the possibilty, that on ship is is positioned on a high wave building a tetrahedron with the other three ships.
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– ThomasL
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@ThomasL that'd be quite the wave, but you could be right
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At the end of the day, this is probably the one that has actually occurred.
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At the end of the day, this is probably the one that has actually occurred.
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– Dark Thunder
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There is also the possibilty, that on ship is is positioned on a high wave building a tetrahedron with the other three ships.
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– ThomasL
8 hours ago
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There is also the possibilty, that on ship is is positioned on a high wave building a tetrahedron with the other three ships.
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– ThomasL
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@ThomasL that'd be quite the wave, but you could be right
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If we take your phrasing very literally, "the ocean" shouldn't mean more than one ocean. My understanding of geography tells me ships on the surface of any single ocean could not be equidistant. But you never said they were floating on the surface. As @JonMarkPerry suggested, ships should be at the points of a regular tetrahedron, but I would position two ships floating on the ocean surface and two sunken on the floor. That way they don't have to be too far apart.
Inspired by @Jafe's answer... The Starship Enterprise is floating in the ocean, and inside the holodeck there is a blimp airship. Inside the balloon part of the airship there is typical sailboat, and inside the hold of the sailboat there is a "ship-in-a-bottle".
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If we take your phrasing very literally, "the ocean" shouldn't mean more than one ocean. My understanding of geography tells me ships on the surface of any single ocean could not be equidistant. But you never said they were floating on the surface. As @JonMarkPerry suggested, ships should be at the points of a regular tetrahedron, but I would position two ships floating on the ocean surface and two sunken on the floor. That way they don't have to be too far apart.
Inspired by @Jafe's answer... The Starship Enterprise is floating in the ocean, and inside the holodeck there is a blimp airship. Inside the balloon part of the airship there is typical sailboat, and inside the hold of the sailboat there is a "ship-in-a-bottle".
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If we take your phrasing very literally, "the ocean" shouldn't mean more than one ocean. My understanding of geography tells me ships on the surface of any single ocean could not be equidistant. But you never said they were floating on the surface. As @JonMarkPerry suggested, ships should be at the points of a regular tetrahedron, but I would position two ships floating on the ocean surface and two sunken on the floor. That way they don't have to be too far apart.
Inspired by @Jafe's answer... The Starship Enterprise is floating in the ocean, and inside the holodeck there is a blimp airship. Inside the balloon part of the airship there is typical sailboat, and inside the hold of the sailboat there is a "ship-in-a-bottle".
answered 9 hours ago
Dark ThunderDark Thunder
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If we take your phrasing very literally, "the ocean" shouldn't mean more than one ocean. My understanding of geography tells me ships on the surface of any single ocean could not be equidistant. But you never said they were floating on the surface. As @JonMarkPerry suggested, ships should be at the points of a regular tetrahedron, but I would position two ships floating on the ocean surface and two sunken on the floor. That way they don't have to be too far apart.
Inspired by @Jafe's answer... The Starship Enterprise is floating in the ocean, and inside the holodeck there is a blimp airship. Inside the balloon part of the airship there is typical sailboat, and inside the hold of the sailboat there is a "ship-in-a-bottle".
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