And yet I heard somewhere (I can find easily but no time at the moment) that there is a weather buoy stationed there.
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
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Re: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
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Re: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
It would appear you're right:dhkendall wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:14 amAnd yet I heard somewhere (I can find easily but no time at the moment) that there is a weather buoy stationed there.
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=13010
And it shows up on PIRATA's map:
https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/gtmba/pirata-array-map
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Re: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
Cool! So how do they keep it there? Is it attached to a cable that's anchored in the ocean floor?alietr wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:20 amIt would appear you're right:
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=13010
And it shows up on PIRATA's map:
https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/gtmba/pirata-array-map
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Re: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
Yup. They're anchored.opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:49 amCool! So how do they keep it there? Is it attached to a cable that's anchored in the ocean floor?alietr wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:20 amIt would appear you're right:
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=13010
And it shows up on PIRATA's map:
https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/gtmba/pirata-array-map
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Apparently that video is bunk - the Coriolis effect works on a large scale, but is negligible on a small scale, compared to how much, say, that divider that he sticks into the water affects the way the water drains.dhkendall wrote: ↑Wed Apr 25, 2018 11:37 amProbably where this video/trickery was taped.Bamaman wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 5:56 pm One place claiming to be the equator doesn’t make sense to me. I said the source of the Nile.
I have a friend who was a missionary in Uganda. She posted a picture of her on Facebook with her and an Ugandan gentleman standing on the equator. There was this structure of a circle with a line through the middle and they were on opposite sides.
https://thepointsguy.com/2017/07/travel ... rds/water/
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26,600 Coryat
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FJ:
I figured that the equator was the only thing that the final could have been - a geographic "designation" sort of suggested that it wasn't any particular landmark or border. I actually thought about "center of Africa" but figured that was a bit too obscure, and the Prime Meridian doesn't go over the eastern half of Africa.
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I figured that the equator was the only thing that the final could have been - a geographic "designation" sort of suggested that it wasn't any particular landmark or border. I actually thought about "center of Africa" but figured that was a bit too obscure, and the Prime Meridian doesn't go over the eastern half of Africa.
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went with great rift valley for final jeopardy
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but aren't pumpkins native to north america and aren't they also fruit?teapot37 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:15 amThe pawpaw is the largest fruit that is native to North America. (That was a question at a trivia night I went to a while ago and I've never forgotten it.)bbird wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 10:56 pm I'm a lifelong Ohioan and couldn't think of any official state fruit, although I knew our state beverage was tomato juice... and that picture surely wasn't a tomato! Apparently in 2009 the tomato did in fact become our state fruit, while the pawpaw became the state "native fruit." I didn't even know such a thing grew here; I'd only ever heard pawpaw as another name for the papaya. It appears to be more of a southeast Ohio thing.
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35 right.
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My first thought was the center of Africa, but I remembered seeing photos of several equator markers. Despite not being sure exactly what part of Africa the line goes through, it felt like a good guess.
Twin Peeks (1), World Leaders (4), Consumables (1), Movie Titles (3), Good Things (1), "N" (3)
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My first thought was the center of Africa, but I remembered seeing photos of several equator markers. Despite not being sure exactly what part of Africa the line goes through, it felt like a good guess.