Re: Nebula finalists 2010

On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:11:00 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 11/21/2024 9:20 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <djpujjdnqd49tccbhl16gerrlcm17ib167@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:14:44 -0600, "Jay E. Morris"
<morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:
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<is Texas a desert?>
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Admittedly I haven't been to Fort Worth much or in a long time but I
don't remember it being desert.
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According to this Nations Online Project map I'd say maybe 20% is desert.
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https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/USA/texas_map.htm
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Scroll down a bit.

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I clicked on it.
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I was greeted with all sorts of ... stuff.
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And more stuff I had to ignore when I tried to leave.
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Well, one thing can be said for it: it's persistant.
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Hopefully, my Full Virus Scan tomorrow won't find any surprises.
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The land-form list seems to feature a lot of dry parts, some actually
containing areas with "desert" in their name.
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But, IIRC, East Texas may be soggier than the rest of the State.
Something about "piney woods thinning out as you move West onto the
plains".
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Of course, if we define, say, any County with less that a given
population density as "desert" (using an older sense where the focus
was on a lack of people living there and not on sand and heat), there
would (I suppose) be a /lot/ of deserts.
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By that standard, Alaska is a desert, but Baked Alaska is a dessert!

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Antarctica is mostly desert.  Serious, its based on average annual
precipitation.

Another fine definition. But would it work for "desert" areas in, say,
England? Or are the Moors populated now?

Complicating matters, of course, is the effect of Man. Thus, Eastern
Washington is a desert -- but, thanks to the Grand Coulee dam on the
Columbia generating electricity and providing irrigation, it grows a
lot of crops. This gives us an area that generally votes Republican,
but which depends for its economy on a massive expenditure of Federal
funds.
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