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Scientists: Mt. Everest Only 29,017 Feet
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| 10/9/05
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Posted on 10/09/2005 10:31:05 AM PDT by wagglebee
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To: SaveTheChief
Some would probably attribute it to the global impact of Viagra and Cialis manufacturing. I just knew there had to be a drawback to Viagra!
No doubt there is an abundance of stiff competition out their to rebutt my claim however.
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posted on
10/09/2005 11:18:20 AM PDT
by
EGPWS
To: wagglebee
Their measurements were taken before the earthquake. They might need to run up there and do a remeasure.
42
posted on
10/09/2005 11:18:52 AM PDT
by
PeteB570
(MSM, news with an agenda)
To: wagglebee
It's Harriet Mier's fault.
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posted on
10/09/2005 11:23:33 AM PDT
by
balch3
To: wagglebee
Bradford Washburn's 1999 measurement was accepted by U.S. and Chinese scientists and cartographers and National Geographic before becoming legitimate.
This new one appears not to have been accepted by anyone but the Chinese and the MSM at this juncture.
So the verdict is not in.
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posted on
10/09/2005 11:26:41 AM PDT
by
angkor
To: wagglebee
Maybe they should have used an American GPS unit, instead of a good-good Chinese discount unit returned from Wal-Mart.
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posted on
10/09/2005 11:35:13 AM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Mohamophages of the world, unite!)
To: wagglebee
Irritating-to-some-and-therefore-obligatory "Bushes Fault".
To: wagglebee
And guided missile technology only cost them a paltry $500,000 to the 'toon's re-election campaign via Loral.
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posted on
10/09/2005 11:58:36 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: wagglebee
Mount Everest, is 12 feet shorter than previously thought
Well, now we know where to stack up those empty oxygen cannisters.
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posted on
10/09/2005 11:59:25 AM PDT
by
ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
To: wagglebee
12 feet shorter than previously thought No doubt, cold weather induced shrinkage.
To: wagglebee
Mount Everest is 12 feet shorter than previously thought Probably because global warming melted 12 feet of ice from the peak. Paging Al Gore...
50
posted on
10/09/2005 1:07:45 PM PDT
by
NCjim
(The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
To: wagglebee
Bradford Washburn hauled a bunch of expensive and heavy GPS equipment up there to get the 29,035 foot figure.
Although I'm sure that Chinese technology is progressing nicely, I'm sticking with Washburn's figure till I see good reason to do otherwise.
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posted on
10/09/2005 1:21:47 PM PDT
by
jeffers
To: Living Free in NH
No doubt, cold weather induced shrinkage.Where's George Costanza when you need him?
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posted on
10/09/2005 3:13:07 PM PDT
by
Rockitz
(After all these years, it's still rocket science.)
To: Rockitz
Where's George Costanza when you need him?
"Here I am."
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posted on
10/09/2005 3:46:53 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(Serving fresh wit everyday, for 36 years.)
To: Larry Lucido
But... by only 12 feet?
We could do better....
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:24:58 PM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Fleet Week = Red Bulls, White Uniforms. and Blue Angels,)
To: GSlob
"a congressional panel better be put together!" Good idea. Appoint a fact finding commission. Put all the more objectionable types on it (hillary, kennedy, frank, rangel,- you get the drift)Uuhhhh..., they're Senators.
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posted on
04/20/2006 8:21:32 PM PDT
by
mountn man
(Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.)
To: mountn man
"Uuhhhh..., they're Senators."
Uuhhhh... at the time I last checked, the Senate was one of the Congress' chambers, thus a part of Congress. Things might have changed since, though. And frank and rangel are representatives, aren't they? Thus the suggestion was to form a proper, combined, bicameral congressional commission.
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posted on
04/20/2006 8:28:14 PM PDT
by
GSlob
To: wagglebee
The world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, is 12 feet shorter than previously thought No. They measured it right the first time.
It's getting shorter because the Earth sucks.
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posted on
04/20/2006 8:29:39 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(I can't complain...but sometimes I still do.)
To: wagglebee
Maybe Mt. Everest needs a push up bra?
Paging Dolly Parton, please pick up line #1 at the courtesy desk.
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posted on
04/20/2006 8:32:28 PM PDT
by
TheForceOfOne
(El Chupacabra spotted near U.S./Mexican border feeding on illegal immigrants. Pass it on..)
To: wagglebee
Damn, all the available jokes have been told!
Any chance we can connect Helen to this?
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posted on
04/20/2006 8:34:49 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: wagglebee
Now everybody will be climbing Everest,(probably even Sir Hillary Clinton) it's no more than a cotton pickin mole hill.
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posted on
04/20/2006 8:35:44 PM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(The tree never falls far from the apple.)
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