On 2009/03/13, at 4:09 AM, Bill Hooper wrote:On Mar 12 , at 6:34 AM,
Pat Naughtin wrote:
The kilometre high club.
The city of Denver, Colorado states that it is "the mile high city.
On the other hand, the city of Boone, NC (home of Appalachian State
University) is the "kilometre high city".
Unfortunately, Denver makes greater use of its nickname than Boone
does with its.
Bill Hooper
1810 mm tall
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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P.S. a note abut precision:
Boone's altitude is given as "995.5 m", but surely that's close
enough. In the mountains of North Carolina there must be enough
variation in elevation so that SOME place (or PLACES) must be
exactly at 1000 m. I believe the University has claimed that their
campus is at one kilometre.
Similarly in Denver, the "mile high point" is marked on a
particular step of the capital building, indicating that there are
other places in Denver that are not precisely at 5280 ft. either.
We don't need to quibble about precision.
Dear Bill,
I think it was Robert Bushnell who told me that Boulder CO has a
distinct metric example in that a cubic metre of air in Boulder has a
mass very close to one kilogram. For those of us down here at sea
level air density is nearer to 1.2 kilograms per cubic metre.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Geelong, Australia
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