<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <font face="Comic Sans MS">This IS geyser related - just figuring out the length of the runoff channel (c:)<br> <br> Udo Freund<br> </font><br> Ruth & Leslie Quinn wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid002a01c4dcf0$02794420$fe370543@oemcomputer"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2523" name="GENERATOR"> <style></style> <div><font face="Times New Roman">A message from Leslie Quinn <a href="mailto:ruthleslie@ispwest.com">ruthleslie@ispwest.com</a></font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Times New Roman">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...</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Times New Roman">Weren't we supposed to talk about geysers here?</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Times New Roman">Just one of the rabble,</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman">Leslie</font></div> <div> </div> <pre wrap=""> <hr width="90%" size="4"> _______________________________________________ Geysers mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Geysers@wwc.edu">Geysers@wwc.edu</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mailman.wwc.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers">https://mailman.wwc.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>