Comment on Dubious Islands

LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SkyeLight@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Explain xkcd #2838.

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• Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Similar: Minnesota has a tri-point where water flows to the Atlantic (via Lake Superior), Gulf of Mexico (via Mississippi River) or up to the Hudson Bay (via the Boundary Waters)

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• Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  none of these are true. that’s kind of the joke. it’s an oddly specific hydrology/geology joke

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean making shit up isn’t a joke though. I feel like the humor needs to be based on something real.

    Most of the other “islands” are formed by man made canals, so I’m curious what the situation in the Rockies is that allows them to argue those rivers connect.

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    • meeeeetch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Isa Lake in Yellowstone Park feeds into tributaries of the Snake (which flows into the Columbia to the Pacific) and the Yellowstone (which flows into the Missouri to the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico).

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      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks. That seems to be the origin of the extra braid that crosses the Rockies on the map.

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    • SirSamuel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You must be fun at parties

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      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You know it.

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• pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s a Half as Interesting video about this topic:

  The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific

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