08-28-2006, 01:18 PM
Andy Wrote:Rivers drain down meaning they flow downhill. Unless it's a magic river, it shouldn't really care about it's orientation but more importantly, who cares?
Well, it's just that a vast majority of rivers flow from north to south. Because of this, many people refer to "up" and "down" geographically as referring to "up" or "down" river. Since the Shenandoah (and more than a couple other rivers in/through VA) flows from south to north, "up" stream is South. Feersty was pointing this out because goodspeed said "down to" Northern Virginia, and Feersty, using his strange feerstylogic decided to answer the question that nobody asked: "Goodspeed, don't you mean "Up to" northern virginia?"
And then we ended up here.
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Dragon Wrote:Either way, I don't he's not taking the river to get here, therefore the direction he's travelling is still northern, therefore it's "up".
Well, if you want to get technical (since he is not, indeed, boating to Nova) Harrisonburg (Elevation~1350 feet above sea level)is about 1000 feet above most of Nova (Manassas~200 feet above sea level)...So he's still going "down".
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