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To: Doohickey

Yeah, but in the satellite age, where we can map every square centimeter of the ocean floor from a hundred miles up, it seems like missing a mountain when constructing the navigation charts is quite a bit bigger pile of "stuff" than usual.

It makes you wonder, how many other enormous mountains are not shown on Navy navigation charts?


25 posted on 01/28/2005 12:45:21 PM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: mvpel
"we can map every square centimeter of the ocean floor from a hundred miles up,"

Not so.

29 posted on 01/28/2005 12:49:30 PM PST by El Gran Salseron ( The replies by this poster are meant for self-amusement only. Read at your own risk. :-))
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To: mvpel

I don't think we can map the ocean floor to anywhere near the resolution needed for navigation charts.

I think there are dozens, if not hundreds of undersea "features" that have yet found.

It makes me smile to think of the outrage expressed at missing data in navigation charts, when cartographers can't even get street maps right.


30 posted on 01/28/2005 12:53:39 PM PST by Doohickey ("This is a hard and dirty war, but when it's over, nothing will ever be too difficult again.”)
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