The Mississippi Basin is bigger than you think

[Mik]

[Larry]

Looks like pretty much everything between the Rockies and the Appalachian mountains drain into the Mississippi.

[xenon]

@mik wow

[George K]

The Continental Divide (the Rockies) is defined by which way the waters flow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Divide_of_the_Americas

"The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Western Divide or simply the Continental Divide; Spanish: Divisoria continental de América, Gran Divisoria) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas. The Continental Divide extends from the Bering Strait to the Strait of Magellan, and separates the watersheds that drain into the Pacific Ocean from those river systems that drain into the Atlantic Ocean (including those that drain into the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea) and, along the northernmost reaches of the Divide, those river systems that drain into the Arctic Ocean and Hudson Bay."

Other divides:

[bachophile]

I see that map of the US and in my mind all is see is this, angiogram of the blood supply to the intestines.

[Jolly]

Oh, about May, we down here have a great appreciation for how much water comes down Big Muddy.

[Mik]

@bachophile said in The Mississippi Basin is bigger than you think:

I see that map of the US and in my mind all is see is this, angiogram of the blood supply to the intestines.

The pattern is repeated throughout nature.

[Aqua Letifer]

Don't get me started on this shit. My home area is not in the Chesapeake watershed, but it pays taxes and environmental costs as if it was. The continental divide issue is a real thing there.

[jon-nyc]

I actually knew this. It’s an interest of mine. I pay attention to it on a local level too.

[Aqua Letifer]

@mik said in The Mississippi Basin is bigger than you think:

The pattern is repeated throughout nature.

From what I remember,

1. the ratio of a river's width is always proportional to the distance between its riffle-pool sequences (and of this I'm certain), and
2. it bears relational commonalities with the venous system somehow.

[89th]

Very cool image. As a current Steelers fan and future Vikings fan, now I know all of my tears shed during losses will drain to the same river.

[LuFins Dad]

@89th said in The Mississippi Basin is bigger than you think:

Very cool image. As a current Steelers fan and future Vikings fan, now I know all of my tears shed during losses will drain to the same river.

Wait. WTF do you mean future Vikings fan? It doesn’t work like that.

[89th]

@lufins-dad said in The Mississippi Basin is bigger than you think:

@89th said in The Mississippi Basin is bigger than you think:

Very cool image. As a current Steelers fan and future Vikings fan, now I know all of my tears shed during losses will drain to the same river.

Wait. WTF do you mean future Vikings fan? It doesn’t work like that.

First, they are NFC. Second, they aren’t rivals. Third, if I’m about to live somewhere for the next 40 years of my life, might as well enjoy the local football coverage from the start!

[bachophile]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4711816/Incredible-maps-reveal-world-s-rivers-veins.html

[LuFins Dad]

@89th said in The Mississippi Basin is bigger than you think:

@lufins-dad said in The Mississippi Basin is bigger than you think:

@89th said in The Mississippi Basin is bigger than you think:

Very cool image. As a current Steelers fan and future Vikings fan, now I know all of my tears shed during losses will drain to the same river.

Wait. WTF do you mean future Vikings fan? It doesn’t work like that.

First, they are NFC. Second, they aren’t rivals. Third, if I’m about to live somewhere for the next 40 years of my life, might as well enjoy the local football coverage from the start!

Sigh... Hey @Mik - when you become a full time snowbird are you planning on becoming a Tampa Bay fan?

Hey @Horace - how about them Raiders?

Hey @Lufin’s Dad - Hail to the Redskins? More like Hell No to the Redskins.

Hey @Copper - How long did you live in the DC region? How many Redskins games did you go to?

[jon-nyc]

@lufins-dad said in The Mississippi Basin is bigger than you think:

Sigh... Hey @Mik - when you become a full time snowbird are you planning on becoming a Tampa Bay fan?

Prolly Panthers not Bucs.

[Copper]

@lufins-dad said in The Mississippi Basin is bigger than you think:

@89th said in The Mississippi Basin is bigger than you think:

@lufins-dad said in The Mississippi Basin is bigger than you think:

@89th said in The Mississippi Basin is bigger than you think:

Very cool image. As a current Steelers fan and future Vikings fan, now I know all of my tears shed during losses will drain to the same river.

Wait. WTF do you mean future Vikings fan? It doesn’t work like that.

First, they are NFC. Second, they aren’t rivals. Third, if I’m about to live somewhere for the next 40 years of my life, might as well enjoy the local football coverage from the start!

Sigh... Hey @Mik - when you become a full time snowbird are you planning on becoming a Tampa Bay fan?

Hey @Horace - how about them Raiders?

Hey @Lufin’s Dad - Hail to the Redskins? More like Hell No to the Redskins.

Hey @Copper - How long did you live in the DC region? How many Redskins games did you go to?

I lived in the DC area for 40 years - 1 Redskins game. It was a pre-season game against the Patriots at RFK.

Keep in mind that Redskins tickets were almost impossible to get for most of those years.

I'm a Pats guy, period. I went to Pats games before the AFL/NFL merger. That was before they even had a stadium, I saw them play at Fenway Park, Boston College and Boston University.

But I did learn to like the Redskins - as #2, not #1. I lived right next to the old Redskins park. I could hear Joe Theismann calling signals in practice from my backyard. I saw Redskins players at the golf course, Lowes (actually it was Hechinger's back then), the Barber Shop, it was a hometown team.

[LuFins Dad]

@copper hometown team but did you ever buy a hat/shirt/chatchki?

[George K]

@lufins-dad "tchotchke"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchotchke

A wide variety of spellings exist for the English usage of the term, e.g., tshotshke, tshatshke, tchachke, tchotchka, tchatchka, chachke, tsotchke, chotski, or chochke; the standard Yiddish transliteration is tsatske or tshatshke. In YIVO standard orthography, it is spelled טשאַטשקע. In Israeli Hebrew it is often spelled צאצקע‎, [ˈtsats.ke], with a tsade instead of teth-shin, as in Yiddish. A Hebrew variant is צ׳אצ׳קע,[6] using צ (tsade) with a single apostrophe (usually called a chupchik, or geresh in more formal parlance)

[Copper]

@lufins-dad said in The Mississippi Basin is bigger than you think:

@copper hometown team but did you ever buy a hat/shirt/chatchki?

I don't think so.

I do have a Redskins 50th Anniversary glass that I still use. The logo is just about worn off of mine.

If I remember correctly it was a give-away at a local gas station or something like that. I don't think I bought it.

While searching for this picture I saw lots of these at ebay