From: "X" <xasper8d@lobo.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:40:27 +0800
To: "Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer" <cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com>
Subject: Rain in Death Valley
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If the area you refer to is below sea-level, where would the hard-rains
runoff run off to?

X

~> -----Original Message-----
~> From: owner-cypherpunks@minder.net
~> [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@minder.net]On Behalf Of Jim Choate
~> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 1998 1:32 PM
~> To: Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer
~> Subject: Re: I thought of an initialy regulated industry!... (fwd)
~>
~>
~> Forwarded message:
~>
~> > Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:22:24 +0200
~> > From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
~> > Subject: Re: I thought of an initialy regulated industry!...
~>
~> > > Personally, I favor the "Pournelle Solution": acquire a
~> 10-mile by 10-mile
~> > > region of the Mojave Desert. Not in an "ecologically
~> interesting" area of
~>
~> As was pointed out it does rain out there. Though there is a
~> more insidious
~> issue that makes such attempts worthless.
~>
~> Here's how it works...
~>
~> Humidity in the air settles on the materials. Because of the daily
~> temperature extremes the expansion of this water causes the materials to
~> break into very small particles. The wind comes along and
~> transports these
~> particles downwind.
~>
~> I'll leave the rest to your imagination and a couple of hours
~> with a geology
~> text on erosion.
~>
~>
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