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Posted by RichD on March 6, 2011, 5:19 pm
> >>The east end of the Panama Canal is on which ocean?
> > The Canal doesn't run east to west.
> The "east" end is in the Pacific, and
> the "west" end is in the Atlantic.
> 'scuse me - the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Panama:

> http://www.orwelltoday.com/panamacanal.jpg

In the days before airplanes, how did they locate
the narrowest width and path across Panama?


--
Rich

Posted by Androcles on March 6, 2011, 5:39 pm

| > >>The east end of the Panama Canal is on which ocean?
| >
| > > The Canal doesn't run east to west.
| >
| > The "east" end is in the Pacific, and
| > the "west" end is in the Atlantic.
| > 'scuse me - the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Panama:
|
| > http://www.orwelltoday.com/panamacanal.jpg
|
| In the days before airplanes, how did they locate
| the narrowest width and path across Panama?

Ever heard of a map?

In the days before bicycles, how did the Romans build
straight roads across Europe 2000 years ago?





Posted by Don Stockbauer on March 6, 2011, 8:44 pm
wrote:
> | > >>The east end of the Panama Canal is on which ocean?
> | > > The Canal doesn't run east to west.
> | > The "east" end is in the Pacific, and
> | > the "west" end is in the Atlantic.
> | > 'scuse me - the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Panama:
> |
> | >http://www.orwelltoday.com/panamacanal.jpg
> |
> | In the days before airplanes, how did they locate
> | the narrowest width and path across Panama?
> Ever heard of a map?
> In the days before bicycles, how did the Romans build
> straight roads across Europe 2000 years ago?

Help from XT's from Beta Lyrae 7???????

Posted by RichD on March 6, 2011, 9:40 pm
> > | > >>The east end of the Panama Canal is on which ocean?
> > | > > The Canal doesn't run east to west.
> > | > The "east" end is in the Pacific, and
> > | > the "west" end is in the Atlantic.
> > | > 'scuse me - the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Panama:
> > |
> > | >http://www.orwelltoday.com/panamacanal.jpg
> > |
> > | In the days before airplanes, how did they locate
> > | the narrowest width and path across Panama?
> > Ever heard of a map?
> > In the days before bicycles, how did the Romans build
> > straight roads across Europe 2000 years ago?
> Help from XT's from Beta Lyrae 7???????

By unrolling the crop circles -

--
Rich


Posted by Mike Dworetsky on March 7, 2011, 2:47 am
RichD wrote:
>>>> The east end of the Panama Canal is on which ocean?
>>> The Canal doesn't run east to west.
>> The "east" end is in the Pacific, and
>> the "west" end is in the Atlantic.
>> 'scuse me - the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Panama:
>> http://www.orwelltoday.com/panamacanal.jpg
> In the days before airplanes, how did they locate
> the narrowest width and path across Panama?

Where's the smiley? They had quite good maps and surveys by c. 1880.

In any event, the builders were looking for the easiest canal route to dig,
with the fewest changes of elevation (fewer expensive locks to build, etc)
and the greatest amount of length already consisting of navigable inland
rivers and lakes. A viable alternative route crossed Nicaragua, making use
of a large lake, but Panama was chosen, in part for political reasons.

--
Mike Dworetsky

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