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From: jbrown@jplpub1.jpl.nasa.gov (Jordan Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Your Brainwave Is Flat
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Date: 14 Jan 88 12:02:18 GMT
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In article <11988787505013001@vms3.macc.wisc.edu> ANDERSON@VMS3.MACC.WISC.EDU (Jess Anderson) writes:
>>Look at any relief map.  Everything east of Denver is flat.
>
>Obviously you've never been to Brown County, IN.  I should have
>thought an ignorant ego the size of yours would have sought that
>place out, since it carries your august name!

Never been to Jordan, either.  Nor Brownsville, TX.  I mean, after they
name a city, county, country, river, whatever after me it would just be
flaunting it to visit.

My map doesn't show any terrain of interest in Indiana.  Admittedly,
it is a large-scale map, but it does explicitly say that you can fly
anywhere in the state at 3900 feet and not run into ANYTHING.

The highest thing I can find on the east coast is Mt. Mitchell, NC,
at 6700 feet.  Most of the Appalachian (so-called) Mountains are below
6000 feet.

The map indicates that there's something about 9000 feet tall near the
Colorado-Kansas border, but I can't find a mountain peak indication
or terrain shading, so I suspect that it's just the eastern slope
of the Rockies.

Most of the country east of Denver is less than 4000 feet tall.

By contrast, the country East of Denver has numerous mountains over
14000 feet tall, and numerous^2 mountains over 10,000.

My map shows "Maximum Elevation" for large rectagular areas, approximately
300 x 350 miles.  East of Denver, I can find one 9100 and one 7000, and
they go down from there.  West of Denver, I can find one 11,500 and one
11,900, and they go UP from there.  None of the areas west of Denver does
NOT contain an 11,000 foot mountain.

Looking out my window, I can see one of the relatively small mountains
in the area.  At 4000 feet, it's really only a big hill.  On the other
hand, it's taller than ANYTHING in Indiana.

Maybe you've never seen a mountain?

>                                               (We ought to have
>expected that sort of thing from a *.gov site, I suppose.)

Can't blame jpl; I only read news here (in exchange for occasional help).
Of course, from Wisconsin we get your sort of trash...

I say again, everything east of Denver is flat flat FLAT.

(Well, actually, I have relatively little experience with East Coast
women.  What I've seen, though, pretty well agrees with the terrain :-)