Thursday, February 16, 2006
Glitch in Roseau?
After Paul posted the picture of his house, I decided to go there for myself and look around. Just a little north of town the river does something odd, it looks like the hi res section doesn't exactly line up with the low res section. Perhaps Paul should go over there and see what's going on.
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It's one of our best kept secrets. One of the after-effects of the flood was a rift in the space-time continuum. When you enter this area from the northeast you pass into a parallel universe. The best theory available right now for the total disappearance of moose in the area is that they are attracted to these things, enter in, and disappear forever. I was appalled last summer - I rode my bike into the thing and it totally disappeared. Of course, insurance companies don't cover losses due to rifts in space-time continuums.
That's one theory. My theory is that it is mathematically impossible to put a round globe on a flat space and so somewhere in the world there needed to be a spot that wouldn't quite line up. They put it in the one spot best defined as "the middle of nowhere".
By the way I've been doing some mapquest stuff for the trip to Alaska this summer and found two mistakes in their program.
1. When I tried to find directions from Tok AK to Dawson YT Mapquest said it could find no way to do it.
2. Mapquest said the travel time for the 150 miles from Anchorage to Kenai was 6 1/2 hours. There's no way it's that long, unless perhaps in the middle of a snowstorm in the mountains.
In the summertime, when the when the 63 year old tourists are driving their "road barns" down the highway, and they don't notice that there are 17 other cars and more 'road barns' lined up behind them, and they won't pull off the road to let folks pass, then it does take 6.5 hours. (When 5 folks are following you in Alaska you are supposed to pull off and let them pass.)
Really the highway is quite nice now with more passing lanes in the mountains and some pull-offs and extra lanes by the ocean also. The dangerous part is now the Cooper Landing area by Kenai Lake, lots of curves, most of it is 35mph. It is still a very beautiful drive, and we usually take 3.5 hours to drive from Anchorage to Nikiski which is 170 miles.
Yahoo has a pretty good map program also.
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