Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: New Jersey East
Date: Sep 13, 2000 @ 20:02
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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awesome
thank you for your devotion to truth

that was worth the outage

by the same token
wyo & colo must have their cards as surveyed in microreality
or dont you agree

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>I realized I had a couple more pictures of the NJE shoreline area.
>One faces south and the other faces west. The southward facing photo
>shows some rocks I would estimate to be 150 feet downstream from
>NJNE. The smokestacks of the Yonkers power plant are
>directly in line with them and 3.17 miles distant. The line runs
>2.61 degrees east of south. The photo caught part of the flat
>boulder adjacent to NJNE so I seem to have been leaning against it or
>at least standing very close to it. Doing the trigonometry, we get
>150sin(2.61) or 6.83 feet as the distance east the rocks are from the
>camera position. So if was standing more than 6.83 feet shoreward of
>NJNE then it must be promoted to NJE. If less, then I at least have
>a picture of NJE taken from NJNE. If equal then it's a draw and New
>Jersey must be placed in the same category as Wyoming or Colorado,
>but probably only for this attribute :)
>
>The west-facing photo certainly encompasses Station Rock. I have
>been peering at it until my eyes are sore. I guess it's time to
>break out the scanning electron microscope for a really close look.
>Unfortunately all of the rocks here are part of a diorite formation
>that breaks apart into hexagonal columns that look just like
>monuments.
>
>BJB
>> ahh very neat
>>
>> no tidal bore here
>>
>> i have passed thru the spot & down & up those cliffs in youthful
>bliss &
>> ignorance
>>
>> certainly never saw nor imagined station rock in those days
>> where i now realize the turn point actually is
>> & not there at the shoreline point
>>
>> very neat
>>
>> >Well, I was strongly influenced by the fact that the other
>> >projections are west of the northeast corner of NJ. This is the
>case
>> >according to close measurement on my Topo! CD-ROM and is verified
>in
>> >the field. I think some of the rocks shown on the map are
>submerged
>> >at high tide, which is when I was there evidently. I don't know
>what
>> >the tidal range is here, but maybe a foot.
>> >
>> >By the way, does your voucher imply that you have been to this spot
>> >and, if so, did you have any luck finding Station Rock?
>> >
>> >BJB
>>
>> but hey then what about that unsubmerged car at dry nys
>>
>> just joking of course
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