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