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comparison of the Amazon, Nile and Mississippi
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:28 am
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:28 am
With the kerfuffle over filling the Ethiopian Dam on the Nile, this comparison was in an Al Jazeera article.
Speed of flow is interesting.
Speed of flow is interesting.
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Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:29 am to real turf fan
Can you add the Amite? Thanks.
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:29 am to real turf fan
I think they need to test the Amazon for steroids
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:30 am to real turf fan
Anyone who doesn’t recognize the importance of the Mighty Mississippi is in deNile
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:31 am to real turf fan
quote:
Speed of flow is interesting.
I guess it makes sense for the Nile to be so slow. Since it flows uphill, (N-S)..
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:33 am to real turf fan
Makes sense, the Amazon doesn't have to worry about any bridges to slow it down.
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:35 am to LCA131
the nile as it goes through Cairo is pretty much a sewer
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:36 am to Trevaylin
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the nile as it goes through Cairo is pretty much a sewer
Egypt is pretty much a sewer
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:47 am to Trevaylin
Do the Turds slow down the flow?
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:47 am to real turf fan
Did not know about the speed of flow on the Amazon. That’s wild
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:54 am to LCA131
quote:
I guess it makes sense for the Nile to be so slow. Since it flows uphill, (N-S)..
can you explain how the water flows uphill?
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:56 am to LCA131
quote:
I guess it makes sense for the Nile to be so slow. Since it flows uphill, (N-S)..
I hope you are trolling. It would be very embarrassing for you if you actually believed that’s how gravity worked
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:57 am to real turf fan
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Speed of flow is interesting.
The gif/pic has volume of flow, but OP states “speed”.
I didn’t look up any stats, but is the Amazon much larger than the other two? If the river is wider and deeper, then the speed of flow could be significantly less than the comparison depicted.
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:57 am to iAmBatman
quote:It's a joke, it flows north ("up").
can you explain how the water flows uphill?
Posted on 7/6/21 at 12:00 pm to real turf fan
pretty cool. thanks for sharing. 
Posted on 7/6/21 at 12:01 pm to iAmBatman
quote:
I guess it makes sense for the Nile to be so slow. Since it flows uphill, (N-S)..
Flat Earther alert!
Posted on 7/6/21 at 12:01 pm to LSUtigerME
quote:Yeah. Depends on the season but it's 50+ miles wide in some spots and probably twice as deep as the mississippi on average.
I didn’t look up any stats, but is the Amazon much larger than the other two?
Posted on 7/6/21 at 12:01 pm to real turf fan
The graph is misleading. Water doesn’t flow that fast in the Amazon.
The river is just so fricking wide it has high volume in spite of a “normal” speed.
At its narrowest it’s over a half mile wide, and is over 50 miles wide for most of the run.
The river is just so fricking wide it has high volume in spite of a “normal” speed.
At its narrowest it’s over a half mile wide, and is over 50 miles wide for most of the run.
This post was edited on 7/6/21 at 12:03 pm
Posted on 7/6/21 at 12:03 pm to real turf fan
Determining the "age" of a river is a bit of an inexact science, but there are several that are purported to be older than the Nile, including two in the Appalachians (the French Broad and the New), which may be about 10 times as old as the Nile (30 million vs 300+ million years old).
LINK
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Posted on 7/6/21 at 12:06 pm to LSUtigerME
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I didn’t look up any stats, but is the Amazon much larger than the other two? If the river is wider and deeper, then the speed of flow could be significantly less than the comparison depicted.
Yes, it's significantly wider, especially than the Nile.
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