not india or mongolia...go west, young man, go west...you too, unc.

I'm trying to remember if Cure ever had a song about Kyrgyzstan? < not a clue, I'm not there, btw, I just like saying Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan

i'm gonna get you for that, nick...

lebanon?

and Iran... I ran so far awaayyyy.

Wow, now you are both a lot closer. I can almost smell the Cedars of Lebanon from where I am though I'm not in Lebanon or Iran. This place I am is another "superlative" kind of place.


yeah, I'm looking forward to that :paranoid:


PS: GO WILDCATS!!! <<< that's for Villanova, not a clue

what a night. Mizzou and Nova wow. Syracuse is next number 3 to beat a number 2.

and Iraq... I raq so far a-waayyy.

Are you in Israel?

Mac, I'm not arock.

Shalom, Tul...yes Israel.

gaza?

Dome of the Rock?

neither of those...think of something superlative in that area

Qumran Caves?

the dead sea?

you got me unc, you're up, bud.

I was at this spot which is the lowest "dry" spot on the face of the earth...only exceeded in depth by deep ocean rift valleys and that real low depression under Antarctica but that's covered by about 2 miles thick ice (Bentley Subglacial Trench Bentley Subglacial Trench - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ).

When I think that the Dead Sea area is over 1500 feet below sea level, it makes me dizzy!

Dead Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The 'Dead Sea (Hebrew: יָם הַ‏‏מֶ‏ּ‏לַ‏ח‎, Yām Ha-Melaḥ, "Sea of Salt"; Arabic: البَحْر المَيّت‎, al-Baḥr l-Mayyit, "Dead Sea") is a salt lake between Israel and the West Bank to the west, and Jordan to the east. It is 422 metres (1,385 ft) below sea level, and its shores are the lowest point on the surface of Earth on dry land. The Dead Sea is 378 m (1,240 ft) deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. It is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, with 33.7% salinity. Only Lake Assal (Djibouti), Garabogazköl and some hypersaline lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica (such as Don Juan Pond and perhaps Lake Vanda) have a higher salinity. It is 8.6 times as salty as the ocean. This salinity makes for a harsh environment where animals cannot flourish, hence its name.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2..._Shankbone.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...point_1971.jpg

A tourist (on the Jordanian side) demonstrates the unusual buoyancy caused by high salinity.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2..._newspaper.jpg

Holy crap! 1291ft below sea level? I had no idea. Wonder if people dive it and if they do how do they calc. out the atmo. bars?

BTW- does that headline read "This Paper is Waterproof!" in Hebrew?

Tul,
I have to think you're right about the diving technicalities but I don't know the answer...a short story that's close to the Dead Sea but actually in the Red Sea/Suez Canal area, and something you would appreciate since you're a diving expert: a retired Navy diver buddy of mine back years ago, I guess it had to be a couple years after the 1967 war in the Middle East, got a high paying job diving in the Suez & Red Sea and tagging mines...he just had to mark the mine locations with a bouy without blowing himself up so they could be removed later so shipping wouldn't be endangered...back then he was paid like $1000/day and that was real money back then!

wow, me again?

ok, where am i?

Cape May, NJ?

Punta Gorda, Belize, Central America?

I take it you're using the term "expert" in it's most liberal meaning.

$1000 a day is real money to me today. Still not sure I'd take that job. Dead men tell no tales and spend no cash.

Ok Unc...


Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean?

no, no, and yet again, no...

negative phil....

NH?

nh...

SH?

way to waste a precious guess, Tul! Some young people have no sense of values.


WH?

I'd make some excuse about the W and S being near each other but the fact is I just fucked up.

So...

EH? lol

wh...

(note the lack of negativity here...)

US?

us...

East O'Miss?

wow, nice, I like all this positiveness GO VILLANOVA!!! <<< was a tough exciting game against Pitt



along the coast?

two negatories...

In a state on the Pacific Ocean in the cont. US?

Idaho? <<< well I'm not really, but I mean the potato place

no no...

Bordering another country? (Canada/Mexico)

no...

East of Rocky Mountains

unc, you're not aspiring to be a dental floss tycoon in Montana, are you?

no, no...

North of 40?