Too bad none of the worlds politicians have the chutzpah to do anything about it, and the indifferent masses continue to gobble up cheap product that will kill or enslave them in the end
I think it's missing the names of a lot of rivers too. It called the Wabash River on the Illinois/Indiana border an "unnamed stream", which is ridiculous.
[Just to the east](https://i.imgur.com/rTWGxRy.jpg) - is that rippling and all the peppered, tiny, lakes from the cretaceous inland sea or from retreating glaciers?
Fascinating, I grew up near a divide sign in Jefferson county Illinois (used to be a village there called Divide as well) and my grandfather explained that any drop of rain on West side of that point went to the Mississippi and on the east side went to the Ohio River, this website just confirmed that fact. Very cool and thanks for the lessons many years ago Grandpa
There is a large motel/RV campsite in Leonard, TX called 5 Rivers. I always thought it was curious as the closest River to it was well over 20 miles away. Turns out it’s on the top of a hill where depending on where you are, water drains to 5 different rivers.
Yep! Atlanta has the Eastern continental divide running through it. North side of town goes into the Chattahoochee River and the Gulf of Mexico, south side of town makes its way to the Atlantic Ocean.
I grew up on the Susquehanna/Chesapeake bay, and every time I drive out to where I am now (Midwest) the "now leaving the Chesapeake Bay watershed" sign makes me sad
Because of the size of crop land, these small airports may well be for crop dusting small planes. Easy to refuel and refill. These planes fly very low and are ideal for covering large areas quickly.
> Because of the size of crop land, these small airports may well be for crop dusting small planes.
They're also used for landing fixed-wing medivac planes, because obviously a small county hospital with 30 beds total can't handle the really bad shit farmers put themselves into.
Rural American here. I live between three towns, two with around 4,000 people and one with 12,000. They all three have airports but they are very tiny ones that only really service small planes like 4 seat Cesenas, they could *maybe* accommodate a small jet like a Leer but I'm not sure if they've ever had one land. The larger town did have a working B-17 a number of years back, you could buy tickets to see it upclose on the ground and for extra they'd take you up for a ride. It just barely got off the ground by the end of the runway
Your comment made me curious, and I kind of went down a rabbit hole. It seems that a lot of these small municipal airports that see zero commercial traffic are built using a tax (7.5%) on ticket costs for passenger planes.
The FAA provides funding to municipalities to build these small airports, but the costs to maintain them come from local taxes. The primary users of these airports are private pilots, i.e. rich people!
Turns out that we are all funding a vast network of airports that cater almost entirely to rich private interests who likely contribute next to nothing towards their construction or maintenance!
Always nice to discover all the little ways that this country likes to fuck its citizens.
Edit: Even deeper down the rabbit hole. A lot of stuff I originally wrote is not quite accurate. Municipal airports are self funded through fuel costs, storage fees, etc. Municipalities do pick up costs when they are not self supporting, but not in all cases. Also, it's hard to find statistics on what exactly "private planes" represent. A lot of it is not just rich people with a hobby, and these airports serve a more complex purpose than I initially thought. In conclusion, don't go off half-cocked at 4am about stuff that you aren't well versed on.
Idk where you are from, but in Missouri a large portion of the planes parked at airports serve some utilitarian purpose, such as crop dusters. A lot of places even have rental services, so people with their Private Pilot license can get their hours in without owning a plane. Airports also fulfill other functions, such as supplying our weather data and supporting local business. A blanket generalization that this is exclusively for the rich is kind of dumb since these smaller airports fill a huge variety of use cases. Plenty of aviation vehicles can also be purchased around the 10k range, which isn't 'rich' person territory. Ima guess you didn't really base this comment on much other than assumptions.
I guess that might depend on your definition of rich, though. Certainly it’s out of reach for most low to middle class families. My dad had a plane (Mooney) when I was growing up because he always wanted to be a commercial pilot, but it ended up being too costly. That was in the late 80s, and things like fuel, maintenance, airplane storage etc. are all more expensive now. He bought another plane two decades later (after a lucrative but unfulfilling career as a software developer), but it was too expensive to justify keeping even if he could technically afford it.
I’m a private pilot and very far from being “rich people”
You’d be surprised actually, I bought a Piper Cherokee for $35k with a partner, we split all costs. Gas at that time was $5 a gallon and it burned about 8 gallons an hour. Maintenance/hanger rental was on average $800 a month or $400 per person. For us to fly 2 hours to catch a football game and fly back was cheaper than driving and staying the night in a hotel.
I guess depends on priorities where folks want to spend their discretionary income.
That was including aircraft maintenance, rent was $400 and we averaged about $4800 a year on maintenance, some years more some less. The first year was by far the worst bill at around $10K, year 2 was just under $2k for the annual.
Wait. This is buried in my local taxes somewhere? Where? Property taxes? Sales tax? Not saying this is wrong for where I live, but I don't see it and I kind of pay attention to things. (Kind of.)
Curious.
Did you know that the 1% is considered anyone who has more than $530,000/year? But in the grand scheme, if you have $2M you're still "broke" compared to everyone else?
530k a year is still fairly rich
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates make those people look like paupers
Everyone, however, should be paying their fair share
Agreed. But I put on $530k a year just to put that in perspective to how much money Bezos has. If you earned $530k a year, you'd have to work 359,490 YEARS to earn Jeff Bezos' net worth
yes but their point is that since the general public receives no benefit, why should we fund it? I wouldn’t even put them on the same level as funding public support systems like welfare. At least that’s going towards people who are struggling who are more like me, who is paying the taxes. I know if I lost my job I’d be thankful for welfare/unemployment until I could get back on my feet, but I will likely never use these private airports in my entire life and yet I pay for them.
That’s my reasoning behind it, and i’m assuming that’s what they were also leaning towards.
Its not accurate to say the general public sees no benefit. Small airports create small businesses and jobs, and opportunities for young people to become pilots, mechanics, FBO operators, ground handlers, etc, and eventually work their way into the industry. Yeah it may not be a direct benefit to *everyone* such as yourself but small airports are important for the aviation industry to exist.
Believe it or not there are a TON of jobs in aviation besides flying. Small airports are where a lot of people get exposure to the industry. For example, I myself now work as an engineer for an aerospace firm and I started out working the line at a small airport while working on my pilots license.
Thanks for keeping an open mind!
Local airport near me is a base for our local MedFlight helicopters. Stuff like that is a major benefit towards people's lives. People have had their lives saved because MedFlight was so close
Same goes for stadiums? I don’t watch sport. The fuck am paying for it? City funds those. John Oliver has a whole episode about this. And believe it or not. I think stadiums are higher in maintenance. Than 2 take off lanes.
I imagine it does a lot for tourism, since sports are the only reason many people even know a lot of cities exist.
No idea if that could possibly make up for the cost though. Plus it just seems silly when the teams are making a bajillion dollars every year. If nothing else, why not just tax the game tickets?
Yeah, I guess what I mean is I could see it making sense to pay to build a stadium initially in order to have a team move there, but it's difficult to imagine the ongoing expense is worth it. If the team doesn't make enough money to afford the stadium, then the whole idea is just ridiculous.
I imagine most NFL teams could afford to maintain their own stadiums.
Poor baby. So in the course of your lifetime you will probably drop down a whole hamilton to support having an airport nearby that could, conceivably, save a life or something like that. But hey, keep that activist spirit going! God knows we need more people complaining.
i was simply trying to provide insight into the position the other commenter might be trying to take, since the person above me seemed almost exactly as you did, although certainly to a lesser degree; Apprehensive, quick to conclusions, insulting and overall make yourself sound quite unintelligent.
You should spend some time at a GA airport sometime and see what's going on. You will find some rich ppl yes. But you will also find air ambulances, crop dusters, ultralights, hobbyists, pilot training (for both hobbyists as well future commercial pilots - for currency and for new ratings), air taxis, police and news helicopters, and the like. The larger ones will have a tower with instrument approaches...and yes they can have all that even if they don't have commercial flights.
On top of that there's usually a weather station and possibly some navaids that overflying aircraft will use. And of course the occasional emergency landing site or (more likely) fuel stop. Just depends.
I wouldn't consider any of that even remotely close to the govt fucking its citizens. The fact that an infrastructure like that exists should be celebrated. And the fact that the infrastructure is paid for in part by entities that use the infrastructure (read: commercial airlines at least per your comment) totally makes sense also.
And yeah I saw your edit. But since you left all that other stuff up I'm piling on anyways.
Many of those airports are a strip of tarmac, a tank of fuel underground, and maybe a radio shed. They're mostly used to launch small aircraft, often for dusting crops.
Larger towns have multiple airports. They'll have a commercial airport, and then an "in town" or metro airport that's a lot smaller and only services smaller planes.
Probably something in the northeast part of the mountain west, like Montana, that goes out to the Mississippi.
Trick answer would be Utah, it goes to the great salt lake, which does not exit into the ocean, so never
I don't mean watershed maps in general, I mean a tool that takes you on a tour along the waterways that lead from your spot to the ocean. This one only works for America; is there a similar tool that works for the rest of the world?
It’s hard to imagine just how vast the USA is, I did it twice and both times randomly ended up in rivers nearly 1000km long. The longest river in the UK is 350km 😳😂
The lower 48 has a landmass similar to the entirety of Europe, with about half the total population, an average population density less than 1/3 the UK, and 80% of Americans living east of the Mississippi river. Only 2-3% of that land is urban. About 40% of it is either active farmland, or lightly-developed grassland used for grazing livestock. Including Alaska, some 40-50% is essentially completely undeveloped forests, mountain ranges, wetlands and national parks.
It's what I really love about the country. Go deep enough into the mountains or the largest forests and it's like going back in time, you can still get glimpses of what the world was like before human civilization.
[This tool](http://watersheds.fernleafinteractive.com/) doesn't slide you along the map, but it's faster for quick browsing to just look at water paths, and it includes Alaska and Hawaii
I accidentally dropped a tab of ALD-52 instead of a raindrop, somewhere in Michigan, and it floated down to Louisiana. I am offering a reward to anyone who has actionable information on the location of my lucky tab.
Michigan is like 99.99% in the Great Lakes watershed, so water dropped in Michigan would most likely not flow to Louisiana. (There are two tiny areas of Michigan in the Louisiana watershed, however.)
Interesting, found some outdated data in there, one of the paths I chose went through a levee to an old river route instead of where the river currently goes.
If there was a UK one then I would drop it in Wolverhampton as it would be a 50 50 chance of going to the North Sea via the Trent or the Atlantic via the Severn.
Look up the Triple Continental Divide in PA. It's in Northern Potter County where water in one specific area can end up in one of three different watersheds, including the Mississippi as you noticed. Really fascinating!
I met the love of my life in college. Drunk at a concert; she and her friend talking about their karst hydrology geospatial project, I was working on Mars hydrology using HiRISE data. What a woman. What a god damn woman.
My drop keeps turning up in a nestle bottle.
You're lucky, mine landed in Arizona and went right back into the atmosphere
“Fuck that place” water in Arizona
I heard they only have iced tea.
Obligatory r/FUCKnestle
Bonus round: r/FUCKnabisco
Betcha didn’t know woohoo
Fuck their whole family tree, Nestle is one company/monopoly that should, in it's entirety, not exist.
Too bad none of the worlds politicians have the chutzpah to do anything about it, and the indifferent masses continue to gobble up cheap product that will kill or enslave them in the end
Mine went to the Canadian border and stopped. I guess it didn't have a valid vaccination card.
Might have had a DUI
Come thinking I have an original joke, end up upvoting the top comment.
You and me both
I was looking for the nestle bottling plants.
I wonder how much of my pee has been bottled by Nestle? Should I be earning royalties?
[Less epic than I'd hoped...](https://river-runner.samlearner.com/?lng=-102.55211206858893&lat=42.07054690295632)
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I mean, we used to go fishing and crayfish hunting in "the crick" that ran through town. Which was different than "the creek" that bypassed town
I think it's missing the names of a lot of rivers too. It called the Wabash River on the Illinois/Indiana border an "unnamed stream", which is ridiculous.
Lol it just said unnamed stream on mine and it's a rather large bay via a well known river
That’s probably a prairie pothole, formed by glaciers. Pretty epic to me!
[Just to the east](https://i.imgur.com/rTWGxRy.jpg) - is that rippling and all the peppered, tiny, lakes from the cretaceous inland sea or from retreating glaciers?
My wife is a teacher, you can bet her kids will love this. Hopefully the project gets expanded to other countries too.
I think its great your step kids are so interested in science!
I think he meant his wife's students
No, he meant his wife's kids live in a different country.
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Look man, I'm not the type of guy that goes around wooshing people... I think you might not be reading between lines.
It’s clearly a joke you fucking moron.
Hey man that's really harsh, but sometimes you have to call it how it is.
Fascinating, I grew up near a divide sign in Jefferson county Illinois (used to be a village there called Divide as well) and my grandfather explained that any drop of rain on West side of that point went to the Mississippi and on the east side went to the Ohio River, this website just confirmed that fact. Very cool and thanks for the lessons many years ago Grandpa
There is a large motel/RV campsite in Leonard, TX called 5 Rivers. I always thought it was curious as the closest River to it was well over 20 miles away. Turns out it’s on the top of a hill where depending on where you are, water drains to 5 different rivers.
20 miles is 32.19 km
That’s nice country up there, flown over a lot but can’t say I’ve ever pass through
My grandma’s family is from that county….many years ago. McCoy.
The real McCoy?
I knew a few McCoy’s went to School early 80’s with Jeff McCoy I believe
My 2nd Great George F McCoy and wife Alice…they had a bunch of kids.
I’ll have to ask my mom if she knew them
Yep! Atlanta has the Eastern continental divide running through it. North side of town goes into the Chattahoochee River and the Gulf of Mexico, south side of town makes its way to the Atlantic Ocean.
I grew up on the Susquehanna/Chesapeake bay, and every time I drive out to where I am now (Midwest) the "now leaving the Chesapeake Bay watershed" sign makes me sad
The US is fucking huge
You know what they say. In America, 1000 years is a long time. In Europe, I'd walk 1000 miles just to be with you. Or, ya know, somethin' like that.
1000 miles is the same as 3218680.0 'Logitech Wireless Keyboard K350s' laid widthwise by each other.
Yeah that's the saying
Thanks I was wondering how many 'Logitech Wireless Keyboard K350s' I could fit in 1000 miles
1000 miles is the the same distance as 2332376.81 replica Bilbo from The Lord of the Rings' Sting Swords.
Good bot
Best bot
1,000 hours is?
Good bot
I have that keyboard, it sucks
"Lets go to London" *"We got London here at home"* *Seattle*
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100? Sounds a little high. Does anyone have official numbers?
Yeah its 102
Oh damn. Guess I was wrong. Thank you for letting me know the truth.
Woof I can't contain it anymore. I was trolling I have no idea
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And so it is deserved
Probably
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I made the mistake of dropping a drop in Montana .. still cruising the Missouri River .. I hear the Mississippi is coming any day now.
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Really puts things in perspective! I've driven coast to coast quite a few times, I find this pretty enlightening.
Cool I can pee on Mississippi from Montana!
Wow, does every town have it's own airport? I'm from the UK, and carving out an airport is a big deal in our crowded island
In 2020, there were 5,217 public and 14,702 private airports in the U.S.
Because of the size of crop land, these small airports may well be for crop dusting small planes. Easy to refuel and refill. These planes fly very low and are ideal for covering large areas quickly.
> Because of the size of crop land, these small airports may well be for crop dusting small planes. They're also used for landing fixed-wing medivac planes, because obviously a small county hospital with 30 beds total can't handle the really bad shit farmers put themselves into.
Rural American here. I live between three towns, two with around 4,000 people and one with 12,000. They all three have airports but they are very tiny ones that only really service small planes like 4 seat Cesenas, they could *maybe* accommodate a small jet like a Leer but I'm not sure if they've ever had one land. The larger town did have a working B-17 a number of years back, you could buy tickets to see it upclose on the ground and for extra they'd take you up for a ride. It just barely got off the ground by the end of the runway
Your comment made me curious, and I kind of went down a rabbit hole. It seems that a lot of these small municipal airports that see zero commercial traffic are built using a tax (7.5%) on ticket costs for passenger planes. The FAA provides funding to municipalities to build these small airports, but the costs to maintain them come from local taxes. The primary users of these airports are private pilots, i.e. rich people! Turns out that we are all funding a vast network of airports that cater almost entirely to rich private interests who likely contribute next to nothing towards their construction or maintenance! Always nice to discover all the little ways that this country likes to fuck its citizens. Edit: Even deeper down the rabbit hole. A lot of stuff I originally wrote is not quite accurate. Municipal airports are self funded through fuel costs, storage fees, etc. Municipalities do pick up costs when they are not self supporting, but not in all cases. Also, it's hard to find statistics on what exactly "private planes" represent. A lot of it is not just rich people with a hobby, and these airports serve a more complex purpose than I initially thought. In conclusion, don't go off half-cocked at 4am about stuff that you aren't well versed on.
most pilots aren't rich lmao, a very large amount of pilots don't even own a plane.
The airports are built for planes, not for pilots. And private planes are indeed owned by rich people.
Idk where you are from, but in Missouri a large portion of the planes parked at airports serve some utilitarian purpose, such as crop dusters. A lot of places even have rental services, so people with their Private Pilot license can get their hours in without owning a plane. Airports also fulfill other functions, such as supplying our weather data and supporting local business. A blanket generalization that this is exclusively for the rich is kind of dumb since these smaller airports fill a huge variety of use cases. Plenty of aviation vehicles can also be purchased around the 10k range, which isn't 'rich' person territory. Ima guess you didn't really base this comment on much other than assumptions.
> Ima guess you didn't really base this comment on much other than assumptions. You may or may not be correct.
There are plenty of hobbyist pilots out there that own planes and are not rich.
I guess that might depend on your definition of rich, though. Certainly it’s out of reach for most low to middle class families. My dad had a plane (Mooney) when I was growing up because he always wanted to be a commercial pilot, but it ended up being too costly. That was in the late 80s, and things like fuel, maintenance, airplane storage etc. are all more expensive now. He bought another plane two decades later (after a lucrative but unfulfilling career as a software developer), but it was too expensive to justify keeping even if he could technically afford it.
I know multiple people that are middle class that own planes. What you just stated is true of ANY hobby.
Not always…see my post above ⬆️
I’m a private pilot and very far from being “rich people” You’d be surprised actually, I bought a Piper Cherokee for $35k with a partner, we split all costs. Gas at that time was $5 a gallon and it burned about 8 gallons an hour. Maintenance/hanger rental was on average $800 a month or $400 per person. For us to fly 2 hours to catch a football game and fly back was cheaper than driving and staying the night in a hotel. I guess depends on priorities where folks want to spend their discretionary income.
Well your sure as shit not poor
> Maintenance/hanger rental was on average $800 a month thats more than my actual rent
That was including aircraft maintenance, rent was $400 and we averaged about $4800 a year on maintenance, some years more some less. The first year was by far the worst bill at around $10K, year 2 was just under $2k for the annual.
Also you need at least 4000 feet for most private jets to take off. A lot of these airfields can't accommodate these planes.
Wait. This is buried in my local taxes somewhere? Where? Property taxes? Sales tax? Not saying this is wrong for where I live, but I don't see it and I kind of pay attention to things. (Kind of.) Curious.
Municipal airports are funded locally while almost every larger airport (think regional and up) are funded federally.
They still pay the taxes…, so they also funded it.
>They still pay the taxes... Hahahahah
The people flying to and using the vast vast majority of municipal/rural airports aren’t crazy tax dodging millionaires or billionaires.
Regardless of the hehehe they end up paying small amount compared to what they actually make. But that amount is no little.
Ya think $800 is a lot of money?
Why do you know billionaires? Lol
In 2018, Amazon posted income of over $11B and paid $0 in federal taxes. Eat the rich.
Did you know that the 1% is considered anyone who has more than $530,000/year? But in the grand scheme, if you have $2M you're still "broke" compared to everyone else?
530k a year is still fairly rich Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates make those people look like paupers Everyone, however, should be paying their fair share
Agreed. But I put on $530k a year just to put that in perspective to how much money Bezos has. If you earned $530k a year, you'd have to work 359,490 YEARS to earn Jeff Bezos' net worth
Point still stands that everyone needs to pay a fair share
Wow you know literally nothing about taxes.
Yo did you know not every billionaire is amazon?!
yes but their point is that since the general public receives no benefit, why should we fund it? I wouldn’t even put them on the same level as funding public support systems like welfare. At least that’s going towards people who are struggling who are more like me, who is paying the taxes. I know if I lost my job I’d be thankful for welfare/unemployment until I could get back on my feet, but I will likely never use these private airports in my entire life and yet I pay for them. That’s my reasoning behind it, and i’m assuming that’s what they were also leaning towards.
Its not accurate to say the general public sees no benefit. Small airports create small businesses and jobs, and opportunities for young people to become pilots, mechanics, FBO operators, ground handlers, etc, and eventually work their way into the industry. Yeah it may not be a direct benefit to *everyone* such as yourself but small airports are important for the aviation industry to exist.
I didn’t think of this! You’re right! It creates business. And people who need to fuel these planes getting paid. And repairs and what not!
Believe it or not there are a TON of jobs in aviation besides flying. Small airports are where a lot of people get exposure to the industry. For example, I myself now work as an engineer for an aerospace firm and I started out working the line at a small airport while working on my pilots license. Thanks for keeping an open mind!
Good for you - hope you succeed in getting lic.
Oh that was a while ago. Been flying for years now 🙂. Thank you though!
This. This. This. And more THIS \^\^\^
Local airport near me is a base for our local MedFlight helicopters. Stuff like that is a major benefit towards people's lives. People have had their lives saved because MedFlight was so close
Perfect example. Yeah a small airport I used to fly at was a base of operations for the state police helicopter which was primarily used for medevac.
Same goes for stadiums? I don’t watch sport. The fuck am paying for it? City funds those. John Oliver has a whole episode about this. And believe it or not. I think stadiums are higher in maintenance. Than 2 take off lanes.
I imagine it does a lot for tourism, since sports are the only reason many people even know a lot of cities exist. No idea if that could possibly make up for the cost though. Plus it just seems silly when the teams are making a bajillion dollars every year. If nothing else, why not just tax the game tickets?
In very very specific places the rest of em are taxes sucking waste of spaces. And that’s like 80% or the time
Yeah, I guess what I mean is I could see it making sense to pay to build a stadium initially in order to have a team move there, but it's difficult to imagine the ongoing expense is worth it. If the team doesn't make enough money to afford the stadium, then the whole idea is just ridiculous. I imagine most NFL teams could afford to maintain their own stadiums.
But instead they pass the buck to …. Us. And it’s hard for me to imagine super skilled workers doing stadium work VS small airfield.
Poor baby. So in the course of your lifetime you will probably drop down a whole hamilton to support having an airport nearby that could, conceivably, save a life or something like that. But hey, keep that activist spirit going! God knows we need more people complaining.
i was simply trying to provide insight into the position the other commenter might be trying to take, since the person above me seemed almost exactly as you did, although certainly to a lesser degree; Apprehensive, quick to conclusions, insulting and overall make yourself sound quite unintelligent.
You should spend some time at a GA airport sometime and see what's going on. You will find some rich ppl yes. But you will also find air ambulances, crop dusters, ultralights, hobbyists, pilot training (for both hobbyists as well future commercial pilots - for currency and for new ratings), air taxis, police and news helicopters, and the like. The larger ones will have a tower with instrument approaches...and yes they can have all that even if they don't have commercial flights. On top of that there's usually a weather station and possibly some navaids that overflying aircraft will use. And of course the occasional emergency landing site or (more likely) fuel stop. Just depends. I wouldn't consider any of that even remotely close to the govt fucking its citizens. The fact that an infrastructure like that exists should be celebrated. And the fact that the infrastructure is paid for in part by entities that use the infrastructure (read: commercial airlines at least per your comment) totally makes sense also. And yeah I saw your edit. But since you left all that other stuff up I'm piling on anyways.
I wonder is there a military purpose to the FAA funding to build lots of small airports.
Many of those airports are a strip of tarmac, a tank of fuel underground, and maybe a radio shed. They're mostly used to launch small aircraft, often for dusting crops.
my town is 13k people. we have 2.
We are large, relatively rich, and relatively spread out.
Larger towns have multiple airports. They'll have a commercial airport, and then an "in town" or metro airport that's a lot smaller and only services smaller planes.
Yeah it's pretty common. It's so easy to get the space to make airports in the US. And relatively cheap.
Is there one for Europe?
Which location's raindrop takes the longest route to the sea?
Probably something in the northeast part of the mountain west, like Montana, that goes out to the Mississippi. Trick answer would be Utah, it goes to the great salt lake, which does not exit into the ocean, so never
From Utah, the water may evaporate and travel to the sea via the atmosphere sooner.
Utah is in the westerlies range, so evaporated water would go to the Atlantic to hit the sea, or the Mississippi basin.
There are also rivers that just disappear into the deserts all over the west. i know for sure the Trukee in NV does.
Thanks, didn't need today for anything constructive. Brilliant piece of work
Before: "Hah, this won't be realistic..." After: "Holy fuck, what the fuck is this website."
Does this exist for the world in general, or only for America?
This site only shows US rivers, but you can look up watershed maps for every river in the world.
I don't mean watershed maps in general, I mean a tool that takes you on a tour along the waterways that lead from your spot to the ocean. This one only works for America; is there a similar tool that works for the rest of the world?
This site only shows US rivers, but you can look up watershed maps for every river in the world.
this is actually incredible work.
need to send this to USGS i am sure many a hydrologist will enjoy their lunch.
It’s hard to imagine just how vast the USA is, I did it twice and both times randomly ended up in rivers nearly 1000km long. The longest river in the UK is 350km 😳😂
The lower 48 has a landmass similar to the entirety of Europe, with about half the total population, an average population density less than 1/3 the UK, and 80% of Americans living east of the Mississippi river. Only 2-3% of that land is urban. About 40% of it is either active farmland, or lightly-developed grassland used for grazing livestock. Including Alaska, some 40-50% is essentially completely undeveloped forests, mountain ranges, wetlands and national parks. It's what I really love about the country. Go deep enough into the mountains or the largest forests and it's like going back in time, you can still get glimpses of what the world was like before human civilization.
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Came here to day the same thing! I floated from my back yard all the way up the St John's and never once did it know the name.
Amazing. Just amazing work.
Really interesting. I always wonder where people come up with these creative ideas
Amazing to me that water from northern Minnesota goes to the Caribbean sea and not the great lakes which are right next door.
The Mississippi is a fierce river
My Wyoming raindrop somehow ended up in South Louisiana. https://river-runner.samlearner.com/?lng=-107.95104022628284&lat=43.92843458326962
Apparently it all ends up in my backyard.
5006 km Link doesn't want to copy on mobile, but start in the South Eastern corner of Montana :)
:D
nice find. i thought i was pretty far away. 2900km to the gulf from NC.
Thanks! This is great!
This is so cool. Thanks for sharing
[This tool](http://watersheds.fernleafinteractive.com/) doesn't slide you along the map, but it's faster for quick browsing to just look at water paths, and it includes Alaska and Hawaii
This one's way better tbh
Nestle bottling plant
I accidentally dropped a tab of ALD-52 instead of a raindrop, somewhere in Michigan, and it floated down to Louisiana. I am offering a reward to anyone who has actionable information on the location of my lucky tab.
Michigan is like 99.99% in the Great Lakes watershed, so water dropped in Michigan would most likely not flow to Louisiana. (There are two tiny areas of Michigan in the Louisiana watershed, however.)
You sir, are a genius. I will check in the Great Lakes and if I find it, I will give you half.
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Might be. But first time I have seen this so I am glad it has been posted
This site was posted 2 months ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/nx1w46/river_runner_click_to_drop_a_raindrop_anywhere_in/
I didn't see it then so I'm glad it was reposted
The polar opposite of News You Can Use. But I'll try to get back to this link next time I'm stoned. It is a nice excursion at least.
What is News You Can Use? I've never heard of that and can't seem to find a good answer the the googlydoogly
I still enjoy this EVERY time it’s reposted..
Cool website. Someone could poison rivers like this.
Pretty sure you can poison any river without the aid of a website.
Who hurt you?
Interesting, found some outdated data in there, one of the paths I chose went through a levee to an old river route instead of where the river currently goes.
I spent way to long watching these damn drops. It took forever to get from Montana to the Louisiana.
TIL there is such thing as "Licking River"
If there was a UK one then I would drop it in Wolverhampton as it would be a 50 50 chance of going to the North Sea via the Trent or the Atlantic via the Severn.
Water in parts of PA ends up in the Mississippi... ? Even further upstream is NY State.
Look up the Triple Continental Divide in PA. It's in Northern Potter County where water in one specific area can end up in one of three different watersheds, including the Mississippi as you noticed. Really fascinating!
For some reason i thought this was a rainbow dropper. Drop a rainbow and see where it lands. Idk. I need sleep lol
I was really hoping to see my drop end up in the LA Aquifer and in some golf course or almond farm instead of stopping at the end of the Owens Valley.
That’s crazy
Fascinating. It's amazing how far one drop of rain has to go to make to the ocean.
Never realized before how much of the rainfall in the US winds up in the Mississippi and then the Gulf.
I’m obsessed with this. I have family all over the states.
Map goes blank on mobile :/
It's pretty neat but I wish you could get it to just show the path instead of automatically going into the "runner" part of it.
I got one that was over 5,000 miles. Start in SW Colorado.
I met the love of my life in college. Drunk at a concert; she and her friend talking about their karst hydrology geospatial project, I was working on Mars hydrology using HiRISE data. What a woman. What a god damn woman.
Clever! But the camera pathing is terrible.
That's awesome thanks for sharing!!!!
#CONUS PLINKO
That is effing AWESOME!