To: Ichneumon
200,000 Cubic feet per second? Holy Shiite, that is a LOT of water!!
450 posted on
08/16/2003 8:51:58 PM PDT by
Aric2000
(If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance god)
To: Aric2000
Some whitewater (notice the lower case initial w) enthusiasts that I know (he and his wife just did some rafting in Tibet in his 70s) did the Grand Canyon in 1986 (or 85 or 87). They told me that the estimate flow was 90,000cfs. (I think normal is 30,000cfs.) The penstocks on the Hoover dam were opened for the first time since they were tested right after construction. Each penstock carries more water than Niagara (but didn't have Jean Peters and Joseph Cotton.)
465 posted on
08/16/2003 10:29:42 PM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Aric2000
I-was-offline-for-the-weekend-and-have-a-lot-to-catch-up-on placemarker.
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