bloooops
for i find i must recall the medals again & fire the judges
or at least ask the winning lobes to stand by for another possible
reversal of the judgment
while i continue to evaluate & admire them too btw
for i confess my visual sense of balance stands amazed that the
judgment could ever have fallen in favor of the afroeuropean lobe
& i confess too that i never properly scoped out the actual great
circle route for the waistline but only guessed at it
& tens of thousands of ksk could still shift either way just in the
process of tightening up that loose end alone
so i think the technical dead heat i was trying to break with my
careful computations must again be considered fully in effect
& the judgments must be qualified as
premature
if not downright incorrect
for in fact these stunningly beautiful lobes are still too close to
call
so thanx for your patience
afroeurasians especially
but how lucky you all are too
to even learn you have a waistline at all
yes i realize it is no isthmus of panama
but it is still something you may be justly proud of
at last a true & even fairly exact continental divide
even the isthmus of panama cant make that claim
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak"
<aletheiak@y...> wrote:
>
> aletheiak &al
>
> > searching the entire afroeurasian continent with fresh eyes
for
> > the necks of the greatest apparent protrusions of all
> > i am immediately struck by a previously unnoticed but
veritable
> > waistline
> > rather than any mere neckline
> > running between the white sea & persian gulf
> > which appears to divide the entire land mass roughly equally
> into
> > 2 such huge & so nearly balanced protrusions that it is hard
to
> > tell which is the land mass & which the protrusion
> >
> > call them the asiatic peninsula on the right & the
afroeuropean
> > peninsula on the left & dont mind that these names are only
> > approximately exact & that most of the middle east is
> > afroeuropean in this scheme
> > rather than asiatic as you might expect
> > but just behold them as apparent protrusions so primary &
> basic
> > that they might rather & quite fairly be called
> > the left & right lobes
> > of afroeurasia
> >
> > & it would be to these lobes that i would award the gold &
silver
> > tho i am not yet sure which lobe is larger & thus would win
gold
>
> & while i find i am not equipped to make a definitive judgment
of
> the comparative land areas of these 2 peninsular lobes
> i do have enough data at my disposal to at least perform a
crude
> trial balance
> in thousands of square kilometers anyway
> which may or may not be sufficient to distinguish the clear
> winner
> as follows
>
>
> left side of scale in ksk
> all africa 30065
> plus
> all europe 9938 less a tenth of russia 1700 leaving 8238
> plus
> the following 13 countries fully transferred from asia
> saudi arabia 1961
> yemen 528
> oman 212
> uae 83
> qatar 11
> kuwait 18
> iraq 432
> jordan 92
> israel 20
> lebanon 10
> syria 184
> armenia 28
> georgia 70
> plus
> 3 estimated fractional countries also added by the waistline
> turkey 771 less 5 percent already european 39 leaving 732
> azerbaijan 86 less a quarter 22 leaving 64
> iran 1636 less 85 percent or 1391 leaving 245
> totaling 42993 ksk
>
> & on right side of the scale in ksk
> all asia 44579 less 16 deductions above 4690 leaving 39889
> plus a tenth of russia 1700
> totaling 41589 ksk
>
>
> hmm
> so the balance does appear to fall to the afroeuropean lobe
> & tho this 1400 ksk edge is still not quite a 51 to 49 margin
> all land area has been fully accounted for down to within a
> minuscule margin of 10 ksk
> & tho i could have made a mistake somewhere
> i doubt anyone will ever care enough to try to improved on this
>
> so unless the crowd objects or has anything to add or subtract
> it is gold for the afroeuropean & silver for the asiatic
> & we keep the bronze for ourselves