Subject: caus straight or irregular
Date: May 03, 2001 @ 17:13
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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actually brian has filed the ultimate dissertation on this topic
but it would take a search or a chase goose to get us back to it

i think one basic point of his tho was that the lines between each pair of
monuments are unique great circles
& thus actually none of them ever aligns perfectly with any other

& this is apart from the slight local irregularities that necessarily occur
everywhere a monument is placed

whether there are more egregious zigzags or offsets than these i dont know

m


>
>Interesting about Iraq-Jordan.
>
>My newest atlas show a straight line, but expedia.com shows a zig zag.
>
>Is the caus border between Point Roberts and Lake Wood 100% straight, or
>are the local irregularities?
>
>Jesper
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "michael donner" <m@...>
>To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 12:38 AM
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Fiat boundaries
>
>
>> 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>
>>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
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