excellent points david
especially the dramatic conclusion that
at least at the end of the z axis
all points are really one
yes a single omnipoint
fortunately for try pointers tho it is the face of the earth where all geographic points are primarily referenced & based & centered
otherwise among other inconveniences we wouldnt know whether to try pointing upwards or downwards or sideways
now at coksok when the cover is perfectly in place on the crypt & thus also more or less flat on the ground
the center of the cover plate does indeed hold & mark the tripoint just as you say
but when the cover is not in place on the top of the crypt
& the ground level thus drops into the bottom of the crypt
then the center of the usgs copper plate at the bottom of the crypt marks the tripoint just as i say
your biggest problem is that the cover wont necessarily stay put in one place so unless you know where it is at any given time you wont know for sure where the tripoint is
& in fact you wont be able to say with any confidence that the center of the top plate is just as much at the tristate point as anything could be
as for which of the 2 plates top or bottom contains the tripoint itself in the sense of the truest &or most reliable & authoritative tripoint mark
a question you may also want to entertain
i would say the center dimple of the permanently fixed plate in the bottom of the crypt rather than of the removable top plate holds & fixes the tripoint itself
of course with a jackhammer the true mark too could be displaced
but that isnt the same as simply removing an already loose plate
m
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., David Mark <dmark@g...> wrote:
> given that we were talking about three-dimensions earlier, if the CO-KS-OK
> tri-state "point" is really an infinitly-long vertical straight line
> running from the center of the earth, out beyond the edge of the universe,
> then the center of the crypt cover is just as much at the tri-state
> "point" as anything could be-- so why is something below the cover
> considered to be "the coksok point itself"?
>
> also note that this draws attention the mathematical existence of the
> ultimate super mega universal multipoint at the exact center of the earth,
> where all the tri-state and tri-national "points" coincide...
>
> david
>
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, michael donner wrote:
>
> > the attached pic by jc shows a recent pilgrim resealing the coksok crypt
> > after paying a rare call on the coksok point itself enshrined on a copper
> > disk about a yard vertically below the centerpoint of the diagrammatic
> > cover plate he is holding & an extra inch or 2 beneath the compressed
> > dustfall & mold of several to many years
> > indeed this absolute recovery & revisit may well have been the first of its
> > kind since the crypt was created & plated in 1990
> > a second pic with the camera peering down into vertical space is so
> > horrible it seems to have escaped or resisted this first attachment test
> > but for the correct answer to the question please see messages 2563 & 2565
> > m