Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] caus straight or irregular
Date: May 03, 2001 @ 17:37
Author: David Mark (David Mark <dmark@...>)
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On Thu, 3 May 2001, michael donner wrote:
> 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
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> >
> >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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