Why 80% of Americans Live East of This Line

[DaveC426913]

I'm sorry to crash this party, but all Americans leave east of any meridian. I'll see myself out...

I don't get it.
Any line of longitude is a meridian.

So, it could be said that 'all Americans (indeed all humans) live to the east of some meridian' (much as we all live to the east of some city).

 

[Haborix]

I stand by "any."

 

[gmax137]

I'm sorry to crash this party, but all Americans live east of any meridian. I'll see myself out...

OK, but they also all live west of any meridian ...

 

[Haborix]

OK, but they also all live west of any meridian ...

Equally true.

 

[DaveC426913]

OK, but they also all live west of any meridian ...

Call me a linguistic pedant.

"Any" meridian could be - since I get to choose it - 179W. I'll bet you do not live West of that Meridian.

Unless your argument is that anything, including, say, Grand Manan Island (44.7N,66.8W) is still "west" of the 179W meridian.

 

[davenn]

When I took a cruise to Juneau Alaska, they told me there are is no land access to the state's capital.

There are three ways into Juneau: by water, by air and by birth canal.

yup was told the same thing when I visited there in 2019

 

[gmax137]

Call me a linguistic pedant.

"Any" meridian could be - since I get to choose it - 179W. I'll bet you do not live West of that Meridian.

Unless your argument is that anything, including, say, Grand Manan Island (44.7N,66.8W) is still "west" of the 179W meridian.

I think that is the argument. If you find yourself on the 179W meridian, travel due north to lat. 45; then head west (roughly towards Sakhalin Island). Keep going west and you will hit Grand Manan.

Silly? Maybe. Ask @Haborix

 

[Haborix]

I think that is the argument. If you find yourself on the 179W meridian, travel due north to lat. 45; then head west (roughly towards Sakhalin Island). Keep going west and you will hit Grand Manan.

Silly? Maybe. Ask @Haborix

To stop being obtuse (and/or silly), that is what I meant. I really only expected to elicit boos, not analysis.

 

[DaveC426913]

I really only expected to elicit boos, not analysis.

 

[TeethWhitener]

Call me a linguistic pedant.

"Any" meridian could be - since I get to choose it - 179W. I'll bet you do not live West of that Meridian.

Unless your argument is that anything, including, say, Grand Manan Island (44.7N,66.8W) is still "west" of the 179W meridian.

I think I found the secret flat earther on PF.