RE: Northern Jane

Duncan!
I have no interest in what you two are discussing, but reading your
posts is incredibly entertaining!  This is why I always read Sib-stuff,
whether they are on topic or not.  There's always something to catch
one's eye, ya know? 
Thanks guys, you made a less-than-fun morning bearable!
Ben

>>> "Duncan MacKenzie" <[email protected]> 02/04/2005 5:02:23 AM
>>>
Thanks, Woj, but my evidence is compelling.

Obviously, the tilt has a direct bearing on this "ocean stream current"
of
yours. A gulf cause, to use another, really rather poor, sporting
reference.
As with all streams, if there was no slope, then it simply would not
flow.
Instead, there would be a slowly expanding pond, spreading gradually
outwards from the great saltwater spring beneath the earth's crust. If
the
water didn't run off in one direction or another, we'd all eventually
drown.

Look at any Map of the World. You'll notice that by far the biggest
country
on the planet is Greenland. However, when viewed from certain angles
from
outer space, as you circle down to see what you can see, it looks
smaller
than it really is. Now, because all that mass is squeezed into a much
smaller space, it makes Greenland very very dense, and that plays havoc
with
the world's gravity. The world is, in effect, too heavy at its top.

That's what makes the world go all bendy in mid-Atlantic. The planet
tips
over, and causes the water to run downhill from left to right. That's
your
stream. It also explains why, about half way across the Atlantic,
directly
in line with Greenland's centre of gravity, magnets momentarily stop
working, and global winds rush past you shouting "This is happiness".
Greenland was never fully colonised by the Vikings because their
compasses
didn't work beyond the mountain tops, past the far-flung icefloes and
the
outlying tundra. They could never find their way back South to where
they'd
parked the longships.

Greenland's gravitational anomaly also explains why, in places far far
away
from it, if you were to take a quick fling to the global edge that
spans the
vast expanse, to where the mountains meet like relay-runners, to where
the
snow-caps die and the snow-fleurs try (the Falkland Islands, or New
Zealand's North Island for example), you'd notice that water spirals
the
other way out of the sink. All because the pull of Greenland is less
profound.

All together now...

Da da... da da da... da da dadadadadada

Duncan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf
> Of bisontentacle
> Sent: 03 February 2005 21:24
> To: [email protected] 
> Subject: Re: Northern Jane
>
>
> one time at band camp, Duncan MacKenzie ([email protected])
said:
>
> >My understanding of geography is that the world tilts to the
> right somehere
> >over the Atlantic, causing the whole planet to lean over as it
> spins, in a
> >bendy sort of way. This creates all sorts of interesting things,
such as
> >variations in hair colour, regional accents, aural foreshortening,
and an
> >imbalance in the weather. It may explain why I'm sitting here in
> >Staffordshire (that's in Engl... oh, forget it), verily several
hundred
> >miles North of even the Northernmost outlying logging cabin of
Timmins
> >itself (a very cold place indeed), wondering if that's a wandering
deer I
> >spy out of my window (nnnnnn...nope, it's next door's cat),
> anticipating the
> >subtle, seamless morphing of the cold damp drizzle of the British
Winter
> >into the cold damp drizzle of the British Summer.
>
> methinks you are confusing the tilt of the earth's axis with the
> gulf stream ocean current! ;)
>
> woj