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Vega as ballistic missile?
Pat Flannery writes:
As far as pointless things (otherwise known as exciting tourist destinations) there's this, off to my northwest: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11486 Well, Balta ND appearently also has a claim. Using MapQuest and zooming out a bit, I feel they might be right. Next trip out west I'll take photos using my GPS to find the actual spot.... http://tinyurl.com/yf7xk9a Where one can feel very safe from tsunamis. And of course, our buffalo's hated competitor in New Salem: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2716 I'll have to add this to the list to go with my photos of Paul and Babe... Note the exciting Native American insight: The younger of whom was later contracted by the corrugated box mfg. trade association and paid a handsome licensing fee to determine proper labeling technique and retired to a semi-private beach wigwam on the pacific ocean.... ;-) Dave |
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David Spain wrote:
Pat Flannery writes: As far as pointless things (otherwise known as exciting tourist destinations) there's this, off to my northwest: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11486 Well, Balta ND appearently also has a claim. Using MapQuest and zooming out a bit, I feel they might be right. Next trip out west I'll take photos using my GPS to find the actual spot.... It would be really trick to find the center because you would have to measure the distance from the north to south shores and east to west shores across the whole continent and see where the two meandering half-point lines crossed. A small bay on one coast moves the center point at that latitude or longitude half its depth toward the other coast. Also, where does North America end on its south end? The Panama Canal? Pat |
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message dakotatelephone... Also, where does North America end on its south end? The Panama Canal? Here's a question for you. What's the definition of an island? Is it something less than a continent surrounded by water? Only natural, or what? I mean is Cape Cod really Island Cod because of the Cap Code Canal? That's all sea-level. What about the DelMarVar peninsula? What about everything east of Mississippi/Chicago River/St. Lawrence Seaway? If you limit it to "must be at the same water level" does that knock out the island at the top of Niagara Falls? -- Greg Moore Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC. |
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Vega as ballistic missile?
Pat Flannery wrote:
David Spain wrote: Pat Flannery writes: As far as pointless things (otherwise known as exciting tourist destinations) there's this, off to my northwest: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11486 Well, Balta ND appearently also has a claim. Using MapQuest and zooming out a bit, I feel they might be right. Next trip out west I'll take photos using my GPS to find the actual spot.... It would be really trick to find the center because you would have to measure the distance from the north to south shores and east to west shores across the whole continent and see where the two meandering half-point lines crossed. A small bay on one coast moves the center point at that latitude or longitude half its depth toward the other coast. Also, where does North America end on its south end? The Panama Canal? The Panama Canal is a potential delimiter only if divide the Americas into North and South without having Central America. The way I was taught it (I'm not sure how to which point this is universally accepted) North America is Canada, the US and most of Mexico, the part of Mexico east of the isthmus of Tehuantepec (that is the thinnest part of Mexico) is in Central America. Even if you do accept the above as the definition of the southern limit of North America finding the exact centre of North America is a daunting task. There are some of the shores of the arctic which are poorly mapped and for which it is not obvious what would really be land and what is merely dirty ice that doesn't quite melt in the summer. Alain Fournier |
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Alain Fournier wrote:
The Panama Canal is a potential delimiter only if divide the Americas into North and South without having Central America. The way I was taught it (I'm not sure how to which point this is universally accepted) North America is Canada, the US and most of Mexico, the part of Mexico east of the isthmus of Tehuantepec (that is the thinnest part of Mexico) is in Central America. Yeah, but that's a artificial boundary that was put in as a arbitrary division, like that between Europe and Asia. Before the Suez canal, the same held true for Asia and Africa. I don't consider a land mass you can walk to from another landmass to be a true separate continent. Which means that back in the ice age when Asia and North America were joined by the land bridge, the Earth only had three true continents: Australia, Antarctica, and this monster that was everything else. Even if you do accept the above as the definition of the southern limit of North America finding the exact centre of North America is a daunting task. There are some of the shores of the arctic which are poorly mapped and for which it is not obvious what would really be land and what is merely dirty ice that doesn't quite melt in the summer. You could figure that out in detail via seismic explorations using blasting and reflected shockwaves from under the ice (in fact, I'll bet it's already been done). The question as to whether ice that doesn't melt on its shoreline is considered part of a continental landmass is a good one. I wouldn't think it would be as long as it was floating and didn't go all the way to the seabed. If it did go all the way down to the seabed though, like a glacier that terminated in the ocean, you could make a good argument that it was indeed part of the continental landmass, as ice is technically a mineral: http://www.galleries.com/Minerals/OXIDES/ice/ice.htm Pat |
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