Subject: Re: left v right lobe was europe v siberia & eupen and malmedy
Date: Mar 01, 2005 @ 18:34
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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>possible
> bloooops
> for i find i must recall the medals again & fire the judges
> or at least ask the winning lobes to stand by for another
> reversal of the judgmentthe
> while i continue to evaluate & admire them too btw
>
> for i confess my visual sense of balance stands amazed that
> judgment could ever have fallen in favor of the afroeuropeanlobe
>equally
> & i confess too that i never properly scoped out the actual great
> circle route for the waistline but only guessed at it
>
> & tens of thousands of ksk could still shift either way just in the
> process of tightening up that loose end alone
>
> so i think the technical dead heat i was trying to break with my
> careful computations must again be considered fully in effect
> & the judgments must be qualified as
> premature
> if not downright incorrect
>
> for in fact these stunningly beautiful lobes are still too close to
> call
>
> so thanx for your patience
> afroeurasians especially
>
> but how lucky you all are too
> to even learn you have a waistline at all
>
> yes i realize it is no isthmus of panama
>
> but it is still something you may be justly proud of
>
> at last a true & even fairly exact continental divide
>
> even the isthmus of panama cant make that claim
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak"
> <aletheiak@y...> wrote:
> >
> > aletheiak &al
> >
> > > searching the entire afroeurasian continent with fresh eyes
> for
> > > the necks of the greatest apparent protrusions of all
> > > i am immediately struck by a previously unnoticed but
> veritable
> > > waistline
> > > rather than any mere neckline
> > > running between the white sea & persian gulf
> > > which appears to divide the entire land mass roughly
> > intohard
> > > 2 such huge & so nearly balanced protrusions that it is
> toonly
> > > tell which is the land mass & which the protrusion
> > >
> > > call them the asiatic peninsula on the right & the
> afroeuropean
> > > peninsula on the left & dont mind that these names are
> > > approximately exact & that most of the middle east isjudgment
> > > afroeuropean in this scheme
> > > rather than asiatic as you might expect
> > > but just behold them as apparent protrusions so primary &
> > basic
> > > that they might rather & quite fairly be called
> > > the left & right lobes
> > > of afroeurasia
> > >
> > > & it would be to these lobes that i would award the gold &
> silver
> > > tho i am not yet sure which lobe is larger & thus would win
> gold
> >
> > & while i find i am not equipped to make a definitive
> ofthis
> > the comparative land areas of these 2 peninsular lobes
> > i do have enough data at my disposal to at least perform a
> crude
> > trial balance
> > in thousands of square kilometers anyway
> > which may or may not be sufficient to distinguish the clear
> > winner
> > as follows
> >
> >
> > left side of scale in ksk
> > all africa 30065
> > plus
> > all europe 9938 less a tenth of russia 1700 leaving 8238
> > plus
> > the following 13 countries fully transferred from asia
> > saudi arabia 1961
> > yemen 528
> > oman 212
> > uae 83
> > qatar 11
> > kuwait 18
> > iraq 432
> > jordan 92
> > israel 20
> > lebanon 10
> > syria 184
> > armenia 28
> > georgia 70
> > plus
> > 3 estimated fractional countries also added by the waistline
> > turkey 771 less 5 percent already european 39 leaving 732
> > azerbaijan 86 less a quarter 22 leaving 64
> > iran 1636 less 85 percent or 1391 leaving 245
> > totaling 42993 ksk
> >
> > & on right side of the scale in ksk
> > all asia 44579 less 16 deductions above 4690 leaving 39889
> > plus a tenth of russia 1700
> > totaling 41589 ksk
> >
> >
> > hmm
> > so the balance does appear to fall to the afroeuropean lobe
> > & tho this 1400 ksk edge is still not quite a 51 to 49 margin
> > all land area has been fully accounted for down to within a
> > minuscule margin of 10 ksk
> > & tho i could have made a mistake somewhere
> > i doubt anyone will ever care enough to try to improved on
> >subtract
> > so unless the crowd objects or has anything to add or
> > it is gold for the afroeuropean & silver for the asiatic
> > & we keep the bronze for ourselves