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Originally Posted by BadNick
Mac, are you in Kashmir? <<< I have a feeling you are!
I had a couple tall mugs of Victory Brewery's new beer today...I think it's called Victory Devil although I don't see it listed on their website...I think it just came out and good old Tony's had it featured today so I had some. Knowing that I'm such a beer-o-phile they came over to ask me what I thought of it. My initial impression, actually suspicion since I thought this before even tasting it, was that it would hit me/you over the head with HOPS!!! like too many beers seem to be doing now adays. So my first few sips were quite hoppy but then the taste mellowed out, which they told me was from the combination of Belgian wheat beer style with the hops. All in all, I liked it and would have it again...maybe tomorrow 
So Tul...other than your bombastic claims, do you have any references you can point me to, to support your claim of "all of Alaska in the WH"?
Here's another one to support my claim, this is from
Alaska History and Cultural Studies - The Geography of Alaska - Alaska's Location
Alaska has the distinction of being in both the eastern and the western hemisphere. The Rat Islands and Near Islands lie in the Eastern Hemisphere. Thus, Alaska is sometimes the subject of trivia game questions: “What is the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost state of the United States?” |
You left off "According to this system" and I don't see any claims in the article that show the IDL always on 180 or that the IDL is in a different location then any other source. The IDL swings west around Alaska, leaving it's outer islands on a the same date as the then rest of the state.
When you said-
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unc, I was also going by the IDL...at least I think/hope I didn't make some geographic screw up.
The IDL is measured/called the 180° longitude and the closer you are to 180 with an "E" east designation, the more "east" you are. Semisopochnoi is 179°37' East so it is less than 1 degree longitude away from the IDL on the east side. No?
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It is in fact "No." Least at some locations. Like Alaska where it jogs around the states outer islands. Leaving all of the state in the WH by your own words that you were going by by the IDL.
Or do you have a source showing the IDL running through the Aleutian Islands... or did you simply misspeak when you told Unc you were going by to the IDL? You simply can't have it both ways.
It's old news and too early here to drink beer (not to mention this entire issue is nothing to get excited about.)
Now where's my morning coffee.
MacGuyver- You're not sitting on top of Everest are you?