very interesting
thanx
& no need to be afraid so long as you dont blow reality too far out
of proportion
& even then no problem really either
since even a revoked poetic license can easily be restored
indeed the following q&a just came on line from multidimensional
reality
for today only
so here it is again for posterity too
as follows
is it reality
or is it not reality
a l l
things are reality
even if only one is imagining it
it is a reality in that the thought has been offered
& someone who has the ability to translate that vibration will
perceive it
it must be fair to say that anything that can be perceived must be
reality because as creators your reality depends upon what you are
willing to imagine & allow
end quote
so maybe i was being little hard on those of you i asked to get real
the other day
it is just that for me
the only reality worth trying for here is the multidimensional one
& tho multipointing was the original focus of bp
it is true that anything goes here now
& anything at all lovely is indeed well appreciated
now
back to the nitty gritty reality
i was drawn to a particular quadricounty point probability here in
nebraska yesterday
namely butler polk seward york aka buposeyo
situated just northeast of gresham
because it looked like a near miss in my 17dollar delorme nebraska
atlas
& i was curious to see just how close of a near miss it was
this atlas however has since then repeatedly demonstrated its
complete inadequacy
so luckily i stopped at a library & checked this megapoint out at
topozone too before barging ahead
& lo & behold
usgs shows it not as a near miss at all but as a perfect road
centerline cross
er
not to get too excited yet either tho
since the usgs has long since demonstrated its inadequacy too
but what was most interesting in the event was that each of the 4
corners of this simple road intersection proved to have been
signposted with its own pair of street names
& the 8 names thus produced for these 2 humble dirt roads were all
different
yikes
quite a scene
this 4 signpost situation
which is not unique
for i have previously encountered it at several other midwestern
megapoints
finally impressed me this time as being quite significant
& nearly sufficient proof for confirming a centerline intersection
quadripoint
as distinct from some pair of very near miss tripoints
& it occurs to me that the only higher level of proof might be to
find official roadmaps of all 4 counties agreeing to this point
still a final difficulty may be encountered if you try to actually
touch or mark the megaconjunction with your big toe there in the dust
for then you see that the 4 convergent roads wiggle about quite a
bit not only in terms of their bearings but also their widths
& to such a degree that the square inch you thought you nailed with
your toe
might better be expressed as a square foot
or even a square yard
not that this is really a problem
for i suppose the actual governing principle is that the convergent
counties all maintain a half share of each road
wherever & however it wiggles
so the location of the truest available quadripoint can probably be
more accurately determined than i actually did by eyeballing it
say
by halving the empirical width of the road beds diagonally across
the intersection
or by employing some other still more definitive test if possible
& having resolved that nagging issue to my most complete
satisfaction ever
i am off next to one of my favorite points
namely cone on cone
or the northeast corner of colorado
on the colorado nebraska state line
there is some interesting bp history on this point which i will try
to dig up on my next computer session
after posting this much now
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> I'm afraid that Iowa's claim to have cornered the non-Chinese
market on loessial
> hills is quite a provincially myopic overstatement!
>
> Loess is a light brown to buff-colored eolian (wind-deposited)
soil. It covers
> the western two-thirds of Illinois; eastern, southern, and western
Iowa;
> southeastern Minnesota; northwestern Missouri; the southeastern
half of
> Nebraska; north-central, northwestern, and southwestern Kansas;
far eastern
> Colorado, the Oklahoma panhandle; and much of the Texas
panhandle. A notable
> band of loess 20 to 40 miles wide also extends southward from
Illinois through
> Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and slightly into Louisiana
along the east
> sides of the Mississippi River and Yazoo River valleys. There are
other
> loessial deposits in southeastern Washington and neighboring areas
of Idaho and
> Oregon.
>
> Most of these loessial areas are relatively flat, so loessial
hills are indeed
> rarer than loess. However, practically all of the bluffs along
the Mississippi
> River are loessial hills, including the famed bluffs of Memphis,
Vicksburg, and
> Natchez. The Palouse region in the State of Washington, etc. is
also an
> important area of loessial hills.
>
> The thing that makes loess form such impressive hills and bluffs
(where it's not
> flat) is a near vertical angle of repose. This means that a very
steep slope,
> bluff or cliff will be stable. In fact, an artificially cut slope
will
> naturally erode to vertical. This is why you will see that
highway and railway
> cuts in loess country are made vertical from the beginning.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 1:07 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] sidney ia
>
>
> >
> >
> > have just been decompressing from all the recent loony eclipse
fun
> > etc in st louis
> > by dead reckoning toward the greater iamone area here on back
roads
> > which means mainly the lettered highways in missouri
> >
> > these offer a rare opportunity
> > equalled i think only by the byways of wisconsin
> > for trying to create words as you go
> >
> > it isnt as easy as it sounds
> >
> > rather like playing scrabble with an impossibly bad hand
> > plus
> > not being allowed to rearrange your tiles
> >
> > so far my longest word has been keno
> >
> > i know thats not too impressive yet
> > but at least it is the name of something else you can play if you
> > prefer
> >
> > i would like to try for a full sentence next
> >
> > but make that next time around
> > as i have just emerged into iowa
> > where this rare literary opportunity no longer exists
> >
> > what they do have around here is a loess hills scenic byway
> > for back roading between riverton & i think akron
> >
> > & this has caught my fancy too
> > so long as the incredibly hard south wind seems to be blowing me
> > that way anyway
> >
> > if i got the story right
> > this long strip of western iowa has the only loess hills of any
> > significance anywhere outside of central asia
> >
> > i think the loess must be the smooth milk chocolaty stuff under
all
> > this corn
> >
> > for more details & examples of the prevailing dreamscape
> > http://www.byways.org/browse/byways/2187
> >
> > the only question is
> > will i blunder into any of the 34 tertiary megapoints of iowa by
> > going this way
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >