Why Nobody Knows the World-s Longest River
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Date: 2023-12-14
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reallifelore
1: 34 OOFDAH.
That pronunciation hurt my soul.
I love -Itasca- (pronounced - EYE-Taska)
I used to go there almost every summer to camp. I remember it being super beautiful and having nice long biking/hiking trails, you can walk right along the river up to where the Mississippi River begins (called the Mississippi Headwaters)
The river is crazy calm to begine with. that you can let tiny children walk in the middle of the Mississippi River(at the Headwaters)
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1: 34 OOFDAH.
That pronunciation hurt my soul.
I love -Itasca- (pronounced - EYE-Taska)
I used to go there almost every summer to camp. I remember it being super beautiful and having nice long biking/hiking trails, you can walk right along the river up to where the Mississippi River begins (called the Mississippi Headwaters)
The river is crazy calm to begine with. that you can let tiny children walk in the middle of the Mississippi River(at the Headwaters)
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-mystikmind2005
Simple, put a satellite tag on a jet ski and have it run up the river as far as it can go, and bingo, that's your river length.
Any natural barrier that stops the jet ski going further, well that's the river length finished right there as far as i am concerned. (Man made barriers would have to be traversed with the tag off)
Based on the above which would be the longest river in the world?
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Simple, put a satellite tag on a jet ski and have it run up the river as far as it can go, and bingo, that's your river length.
Any natural barrier that stops the jet ski going further, well that's the river length finished right there as far as i am concerned. (Man made barriers would have to be traversed with the tag off)
Based on the above which would be the longest river in the world?
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-dio4296
And even after all this math there's still more to take into account. They are measuring the river in a 2D plane (point A to B) but to be more accurate they would need to measure it in 3D. For example any uneven ground would add more length to the river (slopes, waterfalls etc) which are not taken into account.
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And even after all this math there's still more to take into account. They are measuring the river in a 2D plane (point A to B) but to be more accurate they would need to measure it in 3D. For example any uneven ground would add more length to the river (slopes, waterfalls etc) which are not taken into account.
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-Unmannedair
Using Zeno to measure the length of a river is not accurate since each smaller unit results in a decreasing change in length. Thus you're interested in the limit of that which is a finite length.
Usually in physics if you get infinity as the result of your calculation, it's because you made a mistake.
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Using Zeno to measure the length of a river is not accurate since each smaller unit results in a decreasing change in length. Thus you're interested in the limit of that which is a finite length.
Usually in physics if you get infinity as the result of your calculation, it's because you made a mistake.
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reallifelore
Here's how I would do it:
1 kilometer increments from the point of land on the furthest distributary, including the longest splits, when in lakes, drawing a direct line from one side to the other or bending around lake peninsulas at lowest water level, all the way up the tiniest year round stream.
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Here's how I would do it:
1 kilometer increments from the point of land on the furthest distributary, including the longest splits, when in lakes, drawing a direct line from one side to the other or bending around lake peninsulas at lowest water level, all the way up the tiniest year round stream.
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-davidmedlin8562
We should use an ai to determine the fastest route a say 1 cm sphere of water could travel from the source to the mouth, would basically mean measuring the middle of the river and then the straightest point between each bend and such bet the Amazon would win its more curvy
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We should use an ai to determine the fastest route a say 1 cm sphere of water could travel from the source to the mouth, would basically mean measuring the middle of the river and then the straightest point between each bend and such bet the Amazon would win its more curvy
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-Mikebumpful
All this mixing of kilometers and imperial miles is muddying the waters (no pun intended. Can't the US just get on with switching to metric already? The process is already underway and will not stop, but the pace with which it currently proceeds is painfully slow-
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All this mixing of kilometers and imperial miles is muddying the waters (no pun intended. Can't the US just get on with switching to metric already? The process is already underway and will not stop, but the pace with which it currently proceeds is painfully slow-
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reallifelore
So if i piss in my yard, and it flows downhill to the swamp, and under the road, and into drywood creek, then to the yellow river, then into the chippewa river, then into the Mississippi, how long is my actual piss stream?
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So if i piss in my yard, and it flows downhill to the swamp, and under the road, and into drywood creek, then to the yellow river, then into the chippewa river, then into the Mississippi, how long is my actual piss stream?
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-doh-nc8ku
Not even gonna start the video but I know the answer is debated among geographers and hydrologists because the elevation changes and sub rivers of the Amazon if that-s taken into account it becomes longer than the Nile.
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Not even gonna start the video but I know the answer is debated among geographers and hydrologists because the elevation changes and sub rivers of the Amazon if that-s taken into account it becomes longer than the Nile.
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-alexpereda3762
If you reduce the length of measurement, you wouldn-t approach infinity. You would eventually get closer and closer to the rivers actual length. You-re approaching a finite limit. This is high school calculus.
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If you reduce the length of measurement, you wouldn-t approach infinity. You would eventually get closer and closer to the rivers actual length. You-re approaching a finite limit. This is high school calculus.
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reallifelore
To measure it, couldn't you just a get a none distorted map to scale, then use a string to follow the river, then once it lines up, cut it and stretch the string and then measure it?
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To measure it, couldn't you just a get a none distorted map to scale, then use a string to follow the river, then once it lines up, cut it and stretch the string and then measure it?
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-binessee
The longest river in the US is the combination of the Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers. It should be called the Allegheny river and never have the name changes along the way.
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The longest river in the US is the combination of the Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers. It should be called the Allegheny river and never have the name changes along the way.
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-Chaosmite
Looks like Amazon is bigger rather you count the tributaries or just the river itself. And if you count one tributary, wouldn-t you count all it-s tributaries for a grand total?
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Looks like Amazon is bigger rather you count the tributaries or just the river itself. And if you count one tributary, wouldn-t you count all it-s tributaries for a grand total?
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-__nog642
I get why coastlines are fractals, but it seems to me that a river is not. A river has actual width, so it's not hard to imagine a smooth curve going through the middle of it.
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I get why coastlines are fractals, but it seems to me that a river is not. A river has actual width, so it's not hard to imagine a smooth curve going through the middle of it.
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-joeljustjazzing
Why tf are we even arguing about what river is longer, its mf rivers there is no reason to be trying to one up eachother. i guess boadting about it and tourism?
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Why tf are we even arguing about what river is longer, its mf rivers there is no reason to be trying to one up eachother. i guess boadting about it and tourism?
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-nikoyochum6974
4: 28, sorry, but your statement here is wrong, fractal's are not irregularly shaped, the entire point of them is that they are infinite self repeating patterns
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4: 28, sorry, but your statement here is wrong, fractal's are not irregularly shaped, the entire point of them is that they are infinite self repeating patterns
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-kannarzoltan7006
The peer-reviewed paper from 2009, that gives the Amazon a length of 6992 km also gives the Nile a length of 7088 kilometers. So the Nile is still longer.
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The peer-reviewed paper from 2009, that gives the Amazon a length of 6992 km also gives the Nile a length of 7088 kilometers. So the Nile is still longer.
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-matteoairaghi790
Saying that the Nile starts on the other side of lake Victoria is like saying that it ends on the other side of the Mediterranean sea. It makes no sense
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Saying that the Nile starts on the other side of lake Victoria is like saying that it ends on the other side of the Mediterranean sea. It makes no sense
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-TheSaltyAdmiral
How about you drop a floating GPS device into the river at the start, pick it up at the end, and voila whatever that says is the length of the river: )
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How about you drop a floating GPS device into the river at the start, pick it up at the end, and voila whatever that says is the length of the river: )
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-xavier1964
What if we measured rivers using time instead of distance? For example, how long it takes to navigate the entire river using a boat going 10 kts
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What if we measured rivers using time instead of distance? For example, how long it takes to navigate the entire river using a boat going 10 kts
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-Y0uEnj0yMyself
The starting point of the Mississippi river starts in the county of I-tas-ca, it-is-ca is a total bastardization of the word.
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The starting point of the Mississippi river starts in the county of I-tas-ca, it-is-ca is a total bastardization of the word.
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-lotz-o-muzic1608
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Amazing quality for the price and charming in the home
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-izzydebouwer5560
I wish this video came out when i was still in school because i would-ve really liked to show my teacher this video -
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I wish this video came out when i was still in school because i would-ve really liked to show my teacher this video -
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-rushiashtikar
Counting smaller curves makes no sense in case of rivers also serves no purpose. start and end point is simple enough
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Counting smaller curves makes no sense in case of rivers also serves no purpose. start and end point is simple enough
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-elijahrunyon3347
We need a universal scientific agreed upon unit of measurement in which to measure things like coastlines & rivers
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We need a universal scientific agreed upon unit of measurement in which to measure things like coastlines & rivers
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-ciscokid3430
ih teh ska minnesota -
sorry, i love your vids but that took me off guard because ive always heard I tah ska -
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ih teh ska minnesota -
sorry, i love your vids but that took me off guard because ive always heard I tah ska -
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-Hello_World418
I think the solution to this problem is to set up a standard unit of measurement which we can all agree with.
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I think the solution to this problem is to set up a standard unit of measurement which we can all agree with.
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reallifelore
hilarious. The Europeans discovered Lakes that the locals already knew of. They didn't discover nothing
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hilarious. The Europeans discovered Lakes that the locals already knew of. They didn't discover nothing
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