Subject: Re: PLh
Date: Dec 14, 2002 @ 15:20
Author: acroorca2002 <orc@orcoast.com> ("acroorca2002 <orc@...>" <orc@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Karolis B.
<kbajoraz@y...>" <kbajoraz@y...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002
<orc@o...>"
> <orc@o...> wrote:
> > thanx harry
> > good show
> > & i wish you would do something about that naked nle
extremity
> > just to run the whole table or gamut
> >
> > but i find the change in nll owing to human activity most
peculiar
> > because i know highpointers at least wont usually consider
> > artificial constructions but only the natural surface of the earth
> >
> > so i can imagine them at least either objecting or not
objecting to
> > this new nll
> > depending on what mood they are in
> >
> > my own opinion is that the human actions that create the
bounds
> > & areas of countries & those that create construction are all
> > perfectly natural alike
> > so i would agree wholeheartedly with your call & your change
in
> > nll
> >
> > but then by the same token why would the highest
skyscraper in
> > amsterdam not qualify for nlh
> >
> > yes i know we have been here before
> > but perhaps it is considerations like these that make
compiling
> > reliable vertical extremity rosters so difficult
>
>
> coming from this, Jan, do you know what's the altitude of the
very
> top of Vilnius TV tower? something like 500 m? (construction
height =
> 310 or smthg and ground altitide ~200 is it?) And does anyone
know
> Lithuania's lowest point (LTL)?
> BTW, talking about that TV tower... do any of GBBE participants
> bungee-jump? How about a 280m jump? (That's by the
way,that's jumping
> from higher than LT's highest point:) I will personally award the
> jumper with a case of Lithuanian Svyturio beer. Doug?;)
>
> (Bill, Mike, I know this off border-topic, but I'd lie if I said I
> was sorry, so just exuse me;)

karolis i imagine i can safely say for both of us
thanxx for thinking of me

& for the record
i have always enthused & never exused anyone talking about
whatever they like