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A newly discovered player in our planet's true history.

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From the article... "glaciofluvial sediment" Now there's a term you don't hear too often at dinner parties. :)

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mpm

You go to the wrong kind of dinner party.

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I saw an IQ test in Omni magazine once that was geared to measuring very hi gh IQs. I managed to answer a small number of questions and drew a blank o n most. One in particular rattled around in my brain for some time and one day I was watching a TV show with a recurring use of the word "riparian" a nd a possible answer came to me.

Littoral is to water as what is to snow?

I think the answer was Glacial.

Extra points if you know the TV show.

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gnuarm.deletethisbit

If that was the actual answer maybe the analogy makes sense to a high IQ person but makes little to me.

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bitrex

y high IQs. I managed to answer a small number of questions and drew a bla nk on most. One in particular rattled around in my brain for some time and one day I was watching a TV show with a recurring use of the word "riparia n" and a possible answer came to me.

A glacier is a river of snow.

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snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news:01f9309b-3abc-451d-afda- snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Wrong. A glacier is a plate of broken ice, which has portions migrating in a river-like manner, only slower.

The ice may have come from snowfall, but the only snow on a glacier is that which has most recently fallen upon it.

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

high IQs. I managed to answer a small number of questions and drew a blank on most. One in particular rattled around in my brain for some time and o ne day I was watching a TV show with a recurring use of the word "riparian" and a possible answer came to me.

Littoral refers to land ocean interface. So the best I can find is snow lin e. Littoral is to water as snow line is to snow.

Glacial makes no sense.

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bloggs.fredbloggs.fred

What's a true history?

Here is a true genius who predicted the discovery of Chicxulub crater in Mexico before it was even found.

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bloggs.fredbloggs.fred

Spoken like an engineer.

Congrats!

BTW, rivers and streams also freeze and they are still rivers and streams and littoral still applies.

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y high IQs. I managed to answer a small number of questions and drew a bla nk on most. One in particular rattled around in my brain for some time and one day I was watching a TV show with a recurring use of the word "riparia n" and a possible answer came to me.

ine. Littoral is to water as snow line is to snow.

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Obviously that definition is not universal.

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gnuarm.deletethisbit

arguably ice, not snow.

Littoral is not related to rivers, that would be riperian.

"slope side" seems a better fit, but it's meaning seems too specialised

"snow line" is perhaps the answer.

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Jasen Betts

very high IQs. I managed to answer a small number of questions and drew a blank on most. One in particular rattled around in my brain for some time and one day I was watching a TV show with a recurring use of the word "ripa rian" and a possible answer came to me.

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I'm not sure your comments are relevant. Ok, a glacier is a lake or ocean of snow. Snow because that is what created the glacier. I don't think it matters that the snow had compacted to form a single mass.

I guess this is what I should expect from a group of engineers...

I would try telling you my math joke, but very few people ever get that one .

Rick C.

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gnuarm.deletethisbit

Nope. A glacier is a river - it's moving.

glacier noun

especially British 'gla-se-? or 'gla-se-?\ Definition of glacier

: a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface

Probably get that wrong too.

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On Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at 10:10:21 PM UTC-5, snipped-for-privacy@notreal.com wrot e:

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Yep, a total engineer....

I may have told this one here before...

What's purple and commutes?

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gnuarm.deletethisbit

littoral describes arbitrary locations beside the water

glacial goes not describe arbitrary locations beside the snow.

is this a comment on my math joke?

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Jasen Betts

A purple commuter. Everybody knows that, .

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That's a dumb joke, there's no such algebraic entity called a grape.

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Now I understand why through the years almost no one gets the joke. The only people who know the subject enough to understand the joke... don't understand HUMOR!

Actually, perhaps he doesn't understand the math. I heard this joke in an EE class about multi-valued logic where they wanted us to learn about Post algebras. Perhaps he only knows about dumb-as-a-post algebras!

Wah, wah, waaaahhh...

Rick C.

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