"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"
--> For the fractal people: A road bed is just as
fractal as a stream bed or shoreline.
--- aletheiak <
aletheiak@...> wrote:
>
> 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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