[Geysers] Long rivers...

[Udo Freund]

This IS geyser related - just figuring out the length of the runoff 
channel (c:)

Udo Freund

Ruth & Leslie Quinn wrote:

> A message from Leslie Quinn ruthleslie at ispwest.com 
> <mailto:ruthleslie at ispwest.com>
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> So what would be the length of the 
> Mississippi-Missouri-Yellowstone-Atlantic Creek-Two Ocean Pass-Pacific 
> Creek-Snake River-Columbia River? If memory serves, at "The Parting of 
> the Waters" (just north of Two Ocean Pass and intimately connected 
> with it) it gives the distances as around 1300+ miles to the Pacific 
> and 3700+ to the Atlantic, which would make around 5000 miles, 
> although I might not be remembering correctly. On the other hand, the 
> old saw that a fish could use it to swim from one ocean to the other 
> isn't really true, as the Lower Falls would be a tough one to jump, 
> and if you wanted to travel east the Snake has a few of its own as 
> well. But probably someone having fun with some fractals could throw 
> all the figures on their heads anyway...
>  
> Weren't we supposed to talk about geysers here?
>  
> Just one of the rabble,
> Leslie
>  
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