Subject: kearney ne Re: sidney ia
Date: Oct 30, 2004 @ 17:23
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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>out
> very interesting
> thanx
> & no need to be afraid so long as you dont blow reality too far
> of proportionreal
> & 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
> the other daydust
>
> 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
>with
> 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
> your toeconvergent
> 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
> counties all maintain a half share of each roadbe
> wherever & however it wiggles
> so the location of the truest available quadripoint can probably
> more accurately determined than i actually did by eyeballing ittry
>
> 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
> to dig up on my next computer sessionwestern
> 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
> Iowa;are
> > 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
> otherareas
> > loessial deposits in southeastern Washington and neighboring
> of Idaho andvery
> > 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
> steep slope,slope
> > bluff or cliff will be stable. In fact, an artificially cut
> willyou
> > 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
> > > preferme
> > >
> > > 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
> > > that way anywayunder
> > >
> > > 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
> allby
> > > 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
> > > going this way
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > >
> > >
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