Oh that's a great idea

Yeah, it is. Every degree of difference in longitude translates to four minutes difference in the time the sun sets, so assuming that there's no weird cross-time connection here (like DocWolph suggested below) they can pin down her location without too much work. And longitude is the harder part, since it requires accurate timekeeping; latitude can be determined just by the angles of the stars above the horizon.

how many degrees when you add 5km altitude?

Hunh... not sure, that's a bit more complicated to calculate, as it's no longer a linear relationship. For that matter the distance will be latitude-dependant as well since the actual distance between lines of longitude is latitude dependant.

Well, Earth's radius is 6,378km at the equator. 5km is barely anything.

True. This question, unsurprisingly, comes up on photography forums as well. From what I can tell from the discussions, at the equator the difference is roughly one minute per 1.5km/0.9mi. So 5km up is about 3 minutes, or a little under one degree of longitude.

So you're right in that it's nearly 'measurement error' territory, but still more than people might think.

Aww, Lemony seems so sad about being so physically far away from her new friend. This makes me excited to see how happy she'll become when she meets him face to face. Or should I say face to foot?

She going to swim across at some point I bet.

More like run across it, which would be quite the spectacle.

Maybe come out of the sea like Godzilla.

We haven't all forgotten she can run at the speed of sound, right? I know these two are going through a lot right now, but unless I'm missing something this part seems easy enough to put two and two together.

Wait, you're right! Perhaps as soon as they figure out which direction Lemony has to go to meet Dillon physically, she's going to run in his direction at the speed of sound, leading to Dillon panicking that the cute titaness is going to be seen by everyone in his city soon?

Again, I could be missing something here. I assume JollyJack knows what he's doing here.

...Ocean.

Answered above (https://www.furaffinity.net/view/58.....#cid:182310573).

Giant friend is 1000 meters away and closing fast!

I just thought of something.
If Lemony can "shrink" down to see things from his perspective, can he "grow" to see things from Lemony's?
Not something that needs to happen, but would be interesting to see his reaction to such a size shift.

I'm pretty sure this is NOT part of the story, but it feels like they are separate not only by distance but also time. It seems a little unreal that you would have giant monsters, Kaiju, and the human city would not bring up their existence fairly regularly. Especially since the world was/is/will be destroyed by the monsters and fighting them.

Considering Dillon mentions the island he lives in is a artificial one, it's safe to assume the reason humanity is living on said artificial islands is due to the main land being too dangerous to live in. specially since the actual Azores Islands are already pretty far from the continent, with him mentioning they're right off the coast of the actual ones. We also still don't know if the reason the seemingly autonomous robotic creatures humanity was fighting either disappeared, or are on an uneasy truce with humanity (kinda like "we'll let you guys live in those islands if you don't try to mess with us again"). The Titans also seemed to be an Army thing, so of course them being now considered classified infor would make sense;

What really intrigues me is that re-reading the first chapter, I noticed the way Dillon and Lemony communicates is pretty similar to how Excel (another Kaiju) communicated with her human handler, Simon. The only difference is that Simon had to use a massive Pacific Rim-like plug straight in his head, while Dillon obviously don't. Makes me wonder if him starting to see her right after she woke up from what seems to be a cryo-sleep is him somehow unknowingly having a upgrade of this technology linked to him, and accidentally linking up and "activating" her.

An addendum to some of this - we're also still very much in the dark about the context around the autonomous war machines, and what happened in mainland Europe (and going off that one panel near the end of the prologue, possibly a significant proportion of Earth's continental landmass). They seem to have been originally fielded by the Severine as semi-autonomous combatants against the Republic of Enotria (which we still have no idea why those two were at war), but the prologue seems to imply that the Severine either lost control of their own machines, or reprogrammed them to fight entirely autonomously for some reason, with the machines ultimately deploying the Severine military's ultimate strategic WMD, the "Morningstar" device, not just against the Enotrians but again seemingly against most of Mankind.

There's a lot we don't know, given that the present day of the story with Dillon and Lemony takes place a whopping 200 years after the prologue, yet despite that span of time, at the very least the average citizens of the Greater Azores are largely in the dark about what's going on in mainland Europe, not seeming to have even ever heard of the Enotrian Titans, nor the Severine robotics, let alone the fact that said robots seem to still be very much still active and hostile even after 2 centuries.

I'm inclined to believe the theories posited by many others that the Severine robots still being around and seemingly well-entrenched is why so little is known of the mainland even after so long - the government of the Azores is likely covering everything up because how would society react if they knew that most of Europe is dominated by a 200-year-old legion of ancient but still incredibly dangerous war robots?

Wait, if Dillon is on the island of São Miguel, and if Lemony is quite far from that island to the east, that means she is in Europe, more precisely somewhere off the coast of Portugal or Spain, I think, which would be quite interesting if that were to be the case or similar.

I mean didn't Dillon speculate that she was probably somewhere in Europe a few pages back, while she was exploring her surroundings and he realized she was on the mainland continent?

Where EXACTLY she is, we obviously don't know, but we can infer a few things from the prologue and everything else we've seen:

- Lemony was presumably manufactured by the Republic of Enotria like all the other Titans, which we don't know what real-world geographic location their territory would correspond to in the comic's alternate history, but it seems a safe bet to surmise SOMEWHERE near Spain/at least in some part of southwestern Europe.

- Somewhat further reinforcing this, the aggressors in the prologue, the Severine, seem to hail from somewhere further north, possibly in the Alps at least, given the cold and mountainous geography of the Severine base seen on page 2023-07-11.

"I mean didn't Dillon speculate that she was probably somewhere in Europe a few pages back, while she was exploring her surroundings and he realized she was on the mainland continent?"

I vaguely remember, but what I said in my comment was based on what is shown in the last two panels on this page (at the bottom), plus what Dillon said on this page, regardless of what he said before; also, I never said it as a certainty, by the way.

I sense a journey is about to be undertaken

Question, are they in a relationship?

They are two halves of the same whole.

Ah

Smart.

That is something that you could be linked together like that and still feel so distant from each other.

Dude is going to use old school longitude calculation methods to find her! I'm here for that. I want to see him learn to use a sextant.