Subject: Re: Fiat boundaries<br/>
Date: May 03, 2001 @ 08:07<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1326570897">I wonder, since those boundaries were never defined, whether the <br/>
states that were adjacent to the lake when it was still a lake and <br/>
not a puddle, now want their boundaries prolonged to the pitiful <br/>
little pond that is still there, or that they adhere to the already <br/>
roughly drawn boundaries. It looks like what&#39;s left of Lake Chad is <br/>
at the southern end of it. Will, say, Niger demand access to it? <br/>
After all, this was important in the past, too (giving Cameroon its <br/>
form, resembling a pie slice).<br/>
<br/>
BTW: A fiat boundary... Could it be a boundary that is set by driving <br/>
along it in an italian car? ;-))<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., michael donner &lt;m@d...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; peter mentioned<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt;--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., michael donner &lt;m@d...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; &gt;&gt; & jesper<br/>
&gt; &gt;&gt; of these 5 or 3 singular fiat boundaries we have found<br/>
&gt; &gt;&gt; your chad nigeria line is probably the truest & purest in the <br/>
world<br/>
&gt; &gt;&gt; by virtue of being totally wet as well as probably unmarked<br/>
&gt; &gt;&gt; & therefore almost certainly absolutely undeflected by so much <br/>
as a<br/>
&gt; &gt;single<br/>
&gt; &gt;&gt; subatomic particle<br/>
&gt; &gt;&gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt;&gt; m<br/>
&gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt;Not deflected, but Lake Chad being a very salty one with <br/>
fluctuating<br/>
&gt; &gt;amounts of water (+salt) in it, there are possibly (also <br/>
fluctuating)<br/>
&gt; &gt;amounts of land that are cut by the boundary.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; actually it is now a completely dry line<br/>
&gt; as recent photos clearly show  in<br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.afrol.com/Categories/Environment/env062_lake_chad.htm">http://www.afrol.com/Categories/Environment/env062_lake_chad.htm</a><br/>
&gt; if you can mentally supply where the border is<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; still  being legal  but indefinite  it remains the most pristine of <br/>
all the<br/>
&gt; singular fiats<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; btw i also just noticed that the iraq jordan boundary<br/>
&gt;   1 of the 2 other best claimants of singular fiathood<br/>
&gt; has recently lapsed into a rather messy de facto zigzag<br/>
&gt; vaguely suggestive of the egypt sudan administrative line<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; so it may well have bitten the dust for any playful purposes<br/>
&gt; & we could now be looking at a world class set with only 2 members<br/>
&gt; both dry<br/>
&gt; one marked<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt;&gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt;&gt; still cresting on my brendan waves<br/>
&gt; &gt;&gt; & so wishing for the perfect moment point of happy landing<br/>
&gt; &gt;&gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt;Yes I know what you mean. The viscosity of these waves is huge, I<br/>
&gt; &gt;think. What substance is this? No salt water...<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; i think it must be aurora australis concentrate<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; responds shimmeringly to your every thought<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; still dancing across the empyrian on it here too<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; excelsior<br/>
&gt; m </span></blockquote></div>