Example of how you were using it?
I need a laugh today.
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Mississippi River (2340 miles) is the second-longest river in the USA⌠one mile shorter than the Missouri River.
Got into a River hole, tracing the Arkansas River to its headwaters (yeah, I could have looked at wiki). Another pretty long river, starting between Aspen and Breckenridge, CO.
I was looking at list of rivers the other day, and am reminded of ranking problems. See Definition of length. I went down this trail while trying to determine if the Okavango is the longest that doesnât empty into the ocean (or another river that empties into the ocean). Fun fact, some scientists treat the Missouri as the river that continues after the Mississippi and Missouri meet just north of St Louis.
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Yeah, I think there must be some wiki-war going on. One mile longer? Really?
Also, how does one measure a riverâs length? Via its middle, or via shortest distance while still in the water? Cuz, both have a lot of that Chinese dialect going on.
You know: meanderinâ.
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For some reason I think Iâve known the trivia question answer of longest river in America being the Missouri but is really only 1 mile difference? That Iâve never checked.
Oh I see Twig covered it.
i need to clean stuff out better. found a box this week. cleaning it out I had TWO of those folder things (leather, they zip, w paper inside) that you carry around at a conference or an interview?
each had my business card in them. for my last job. that i left nine years ago. NINE
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What is the deciding factor for the name of the river that continues on? Average flow rate for each branch? I guess it wouldnât be too surprising the Missouri would be lower given the rapid decline in average precipitation a couple hundred miles West of the Mississippi.
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I was actually reading about this with respect to the Mississippi the other day. It isnât just water flow, as the Ohio is about 20% larger than the Mississippi where they meet. And it isnât about length, as this discussion covers. It seems in the case of the Mississippi that we use that name because of Marquette and Joliet, and they got it from Native American tribes in Illinois. They went through the Midwest, caught the Mississippi there, then took it down river until its end, and the name stuck. So what we call the Mississippi is the part that they knew of.
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Fun fact: They stopped at The Arkansas River when told that it emptied into the Gulf.
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mark zuckerberg is building a bond villain complex on a remote location in hawaii
if the apocalypse does happen, now we know where to attack to get almost unlimited food and supplies
someone post the blueprints for this place online
thanks zuck
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TIL that cars outside of the US donât generally have panic buttons on the remotes. Someone mentioned the panic button on Reddit and all of the non-Americans were lost.
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The panic button is an invaluable tool to help you find your vehicle.
Your can thank me later when you do it.
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I used it just today. Itâs fantastic.
Aamof, the car place where I bought it from routinely used that method to find the necessary car in their lot.
I am not familiar with this brand, but it sounds like a name used when the yellow pages were popular. Perhaps Aaamof would try to one up them.
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My car has a âlocate vehicleâ feature on the app that pinpoints quite accurately, down to which aisle in the parking lot and roughly how far down. So I no longer need to make my car make noise or light up, which is nice.
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I was discussing an issue I had with a score bug in another thread, and that got me curious about score bug history. I knew they started in my lifetime, but couldnât pin down a specific time in my memory
Care to guess?
Summary
The first use was in 1992 in the newly formed English Premier League. ESPN started using one for the 1994 World Cup. They apparently proliferated rapidly. The âFox Boxâ was implemented for their inaugural year of NFL coverage in 1994.
Before then, I remember flipping channels to check in on a game score and sometimes needing to wait a long while before the announcers would give the score
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what is a score bug?
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that little icon usually in the top left of the screen displayed in televised sports that gives score information and other details.
Early on, it was just score. Now it often displays a ton of other information. In MLB for instance, it often shows runners on base, balls/strikes/outs,âŚ
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