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Did you know that, even though the prairies seems pretty flat, they're not. The North America continental plate has an higher elevation from West to East. For example, Calgary lowest point would be one of the highest one in the Okanagan. Here's a graph to illustrate:
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During World War II when blood supplies were running low, doctors discovered that the liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
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oneh2obabe wrote:During World War II when blood supplies were running low, doctors discovered that the liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
How interesting! I wonder if the coconut smell travels through blood like onion or garlic.
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Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula".
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French Castanut wrote:Did you know that, even though the prairies seems pretty flat, they're not. The North America continental plate has an higher elevation from West to East.
The praires are still quite flat. What your little graph doesn't show is that in between Kelowna and Calgary you rise and fall at least a half dozen times. In contrast, it's pretty flat from Calgary to Medicine Hat.
Interesting fact: There' s flat land in BC too...
Dawson Creek (Peace River area)
Riske Creek (Chilcotin Plateau)
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"Glacier"Interesting fact: There' s flat land in BC too...
Dawson Creek (Peace River area)
Riske Creek (Chilcotin Plateau)
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Ken7 wrote:You can watch your dog run away for three days when living in Saskatchewan.
Only if your dog is running 0.07 km/h. The furthest you can see is only 5 km away on a flat horizon, but here in BC I could see my mom's house from the school some 6 km away. So in actual fact, you can see your dog run away for a lot longer in BC than you can in Saskatchewan.
Here is a quick sketch of the OP's original graph...
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Glacier wrote:Here is a quick sketch of the OP's original graph...
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Captain Awesome wrote:[quote="Glacier"Here is a quick sketch of the OP's original graph...
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I know you go up & down a lot of time in the rockies. thanks for updating it. I just didn't had the time to enter 50 different locations between kelowna & calgary.
but my main point is still valid. even if from medicine hat to calgary it seems pretty flat, you're actually gaining about 1 meter of elevation every km you drive. (about 300m in 300km).
And from Calgary to Winnipeg, you're going down about 1km lower. Pretty scary when you think it's a drop as twice as high as the CN Tower.
In Toronto, on a clear day, you can see Niagara Falls, 100km away across the lake, from the top of the CN Tower (on a clear & smog free day).
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