Mike,
There is often more of both work and play than the time available for each.
Therefore, time of both sorts must needs be used as productively as possible.
I had anticipated that the pending matters at LATXUS probably involved more than
the jetties and might include the question of wrap-around.
Just off the top of my head, I would lean rather strongly against any
wrap-around on the historic theory that sovereign territorial seas were
generated by the range of cannon fire from land. If one sovereignty had
longer-range cannon than its neighbor, that would still not give it the right to
fire across the neighbor's sovereign waters to reach any waters beyond. Thus,
no wrap-arounds! I could be wrong.
I will look forward to researching the issue as it relates to LATXUS.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 3:35 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Finding MENHUS
ok i dont see how you can use your time better than by enjoying it
tho i do appreciate you are oriented toward work & productivity
even if our multipointing itself is oriented toward pure play
so i will try in future to spare you from as much otherwise useless
enjoyment as possible
& to begin with please be aware that our crazy bp search engine has
perked up considerably in recent days
so for any newcomer or oldtimer to be sure of exhausting any search
term
like menhus or latxus or whatever
before proceeding further
now requires fewer than a dozen pumps of our crazy search engine
but anyway about latxus
this as you probably know is at or near one of the 5 points where the
3nm & 9nm regimes meet
4 of which involve federal waters tripoints
previously
for the one convergency which produces no tripoint
namely in the dry tortugas
you have indicated how there is no overlapping or wraparound of the
smaller terminal arc by the larger one
but that the 2 regimes separate crisply at right angles to each other
& we have also previously found an apparent proof in the bible that a
1953 alfl compact prevents the terminal florida arc from wrapping
around the terminal alabama arc by specifying a peculiar but
evidently effective terminal alfl loxodrome
running 1 minute west of due south into the gulf of mexico to the
seaward limit of each respective state
& the problems of prusvin & prusvis are largely confined to figuring
out how to balance the effects of the 9nm regime of puerto rico with
those of the 3nm regime of the virgin islands
probably by first giving the 3nm full effect
& then wrapping the 9nm around it as much as possible
tho i could imagine giving them a proportional effect too
&or even cutting a clean meridional division between them
or some other solution
but i assume this remains undone & so is only putative in any case
& therefore maybe not so pressing or problematic as the others
the most problematic of the 5 points however appears to be latxus
not only because there doesnt seem to be any provision in place for
preventing texas from wrapping around louisiana
but also because the right bank of the sabine extends so much farther
out to sea than does the left bank that the arc overlap if any wont
be merely threefold but maybe about tenfold in its effect
& could potentially wrap texas waters way more than just an extra 6nm
around louisiana waters
& thus project latxus far to the east of the sabine pass
& since you have already shown a map that has the louisiana 3nm arcs
so nicely filled in all the way to the sabine pass
determining latxus now seems to me to be just a matter of figuring
out exactly what stops the swing of the easternmost texas 9nm arc
& exactly where it does so
& if you can figure that one out
then please do proceed by all means directly to prusvin & prusvis
to pin down the entire ensemble