Somebody must have proof of a debate we're having here in England. For a few days a debate has gone on about the Canadian Border and I think this particular picture is rubbish. Please read the thread and your expertise as Canadians will be appreciated - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17348764&perpage=30&pagenumber=1
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Somebody must have proof of a debate we're having here in England. For a few days a debate has gone on about the Canadian Border and I think this particular picture is rubbish. Please read the thread and your expertise as Canadians will be appreciated - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17348764&perpage=30&pagenumber=1
Somebody must have proof of a debate we're having here in England. For a few days a debate has gone on about the Canadian Border and I think this particular picture is rubbish. Please read the thread and your expertise as Canadians will be appreciated - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17348764&perpage=30&pagenumber=1
RE: Come and solve an arg
I can't say for sure, but if I had to guess I's say it's either a powerline or a pipeline. The guy who keeps saying it's the border has the right idea...they cut the trees down there so you can see the snow.
You never say what part of Canada it's in. It doesn't look like the Rockies though. You see a lot of cuts like that in Western Ontario, but that doesn't look like the right kind of terrain and the plane appears to be high up for the width of the cut.
I can't say for sure, but if I had to guess I's say it's either a powerline or a pipeline. The guy who keeps saying it's the border has the right idea...they cut the trees down there so you can see the snow.
You never say what part of Canada it's in. It doesn't look like the Rockies though. You see a lot of cuts like that in Western Ontario, but that doesn't look like the right kind of terrain and the plane appears to be high up for the width of the cut.
RE: Come and solve an arg
I can't say for sure, but if I had to guess I's say it's either a powerline or a pipeline. The guy who keeps saying it's the border has the right idea...they cut the trees down there so you can see the snow.
You never say what part of Canada it's in. It doesn't look like the Rockies though. You see a lot of cuts like that in Western Ontario, but that doesn't look like the right kind of terrain and the plane appears to be high up for the width of the cut.
I can't say for sure, but if I had to guess I's say it's either a powerline or a pipeline. The guy who keeps saying it's the border has the right idea...they cut the trees down there so you can see the snow.
You never say what part of Canada it's in. It doesn't look like the Rockies though. You see a lot of cuts like that in Western Ontario, but that doesn't look like the right kind of terrain and the plane appears to be high up for the width of the cut.
RE: Come and solve an arg
I can't say for sure, but if I had to guess I's say it's either a powerline or a pipeline. The guy who keeps saying it's the border has the right idea...they cut the trees down there so you can see the snow.
You never say what part of Canada it's in. It doesn't look like the Rockies though. You see a lot of cuts like that in Western Ontario, but that doesn't look like the right kind of terrain and the plane appears to be high up for the width of the cut.
I can't say for sure, but if I had to guess I's say it's either a powerline or a pipeline. The guy who keeps saying it's the border has the right idea...they cut the trees down there so you can see the snow.
You never say what part of Canada it's in. It doesn't look like the Rockies though. You see a lot of cuts like that in Western Ontario, but that doesn't look like the right kind of terrain and the plane appears to be high up for the width of the cut.
Well, I think its something on the window. If you really look at the picture there are parts of the line that dont follow the terrain exactly. I didnt think we actually marked our border in such a fashion, but mahaps im wrong 
Well, I think its something on the window. If you really look at the picture there are parts of the line that dont follow the terrain exactly. I didnt think we actually marked our border in such a fashion, but mahaps im wrong
Well, I think its something on the window. If you really look at the picture there are parts of the line that dont follow the terrain exactly. I didnt think we actually marked our border in such a fashion, but mahaps im wrong
Been flying to a several mine sites in Northern Saskatchewan for the past year and that terrain is very similar.
There are a lot of survey lines like that (surveying for uranium) but none that I've seen as wide as that one in the picture.
It's possible the plane isn't too terribly high, making the clearing seem wider than it is. The trees in this part of the country tend to be shorter. Mostly sandy soil and little rain fall on average.
Being on the boarder could mean the boarder between the NWT and Alaska.
I'd also tend to believe it is a clearing for a pipeline or power lines. It would help to know where the photo was taken (other than from inside a plane in mid-flight :wink: ).
There are a lot of survey lines like that (surveying for uranium) but none that I've seen as wide as that one in the picture.
It's possible the plane isn't too terribly high, making the clearing seem wider than it is. The trees in this part of the country tend to be shorter. Mostly sandy soil and little rain fall on average.
Being on the boarder could mean the boarder between the NWT and Alaska.
I'd also tend to believe it is a clearing for a pipeline or power lines. It would help to know where the photo was taken (other than from inside a plane in mid-flight :wink: ).
Been flying to a several mine sites in Northern Saskatchewan for the past year and that terrain is very similar.
There are a lot of survey lines like that (surveying for uranium) but none that I've seen as wide as that one in the picture.
It's possible the plane isn't too terribly high, making the clearing seem wider than it is. The trees in this part of the country tend to be shorter. Mostly sandy soil and little rain fall on average.
Being on the boarder could mean the boarder between the NWT and Alaska.
I'd also tend to believe it is a clearing for a pipeline or power lines. It would help to know where the photo was taken (other than from inside a plane in mid-flight :wink: ).
There are a lot of survey lines like that (surveying for uranium) but none that I've seen as wide as that one in the picture.
It's possible the plane isn't too terribly high, making the clearing seem wider than it is. The trees in this part of the country tend to be shorter. Mostly sandy soil and little rain fall on average.
Being on the boarder could mean the boarder between the NWT and Alaska.
I'd also tend to believe it is a clearing for a pipeline or power lines. It would help to know where the photo was taken (other than from inside a plane in mid-flight :wink: ).
Been flying to a several mine sites in Northern Saskatchewan for the past year and that terrain is very similar.
There are a lot of survey lines like that (surveying for uranium) but none that I've seen as wide as that one in the picture.
It's possible the plane isn't too terribly high, making the clearing seem wider than it is. The trees in this part of the country tend to be shorter. Mostly sandy soil and little rain fall on average.
Being on the boarder could mean the boarder between the NWT and Alaska.
I'd also tend to believe it is a clearing for a pipeline or power lines. It would help to know where the photo was taken (other than from inside a plane in mid-flight :wink: ).
There are a lot of survey lines like that (surveying for uranium) but none that I've seen as wide as that one in the picture.
It's possible the plane isn't too terribly high, making the clearing seem wider than it is. The trees in this part of the country tend to be shorter. Mostly sandy soil and little rain fall on average.
Being on the boarder could mean the boarder between the NWT and Alaska.
I'd also tend to believe it is a clearing for a pipeline or power lines. It would help to know where the photo was taken (other than from inside a plane in mid-flight :wink: ).
Insufficient data to solve it so far. The US-Canada border is straight for hundreds of miles only along the 49th parallel from Manitoba to British Columbia. There's a stretch of about 150 miles between Quebec and Vermont that's straight, but the first post in that link specified "hundreds of miles," which disqualifies that location. Or perhaps the poster was a little inaccurate? It does look more like the terrain between Quebec and Vermont than it does anything in western Canada. It's clearly not Manitoba or Saskatchewan, there's no terrain along the 49th parallel in those provinces that looks like that, so it'd have to be Alberta or British Columbia. But it doesn't look like the mountains I've seen while flying between Calgary and Vancouver either, they're much more angular and pointy.
Other factors: it'd be very unusual for a plane to precisely follow either the 49th parallel or the Quebec-Vermont border for a long time, those paths don't join any major airports. The only reason to do so would be to fly in the jetstream, so it'd have to be an east-bound flight, but the jetstream is rarely straight for hundreds of miles either. Nature doesn't usually operate in straight lines, only people do.
My first thought was that the picture's a Photoshopped fake. I saved it and had a close look at it, and there are places where the line doesn't seem to quite follow the terrain. Besides, for the line to appear that wide from 35,000 feet, it'd have to be many miles wide on the ground, and as far as I know we don't clear vegetation along the border like that, or paint the landscape to mark it. Double besides, the line is white, suggesting snow fills it, but there'd have to be a lot more snow elsewhere in the image to justify that belief. I think it's a fake.
Or a giant slug trail. What, you've never heard of the giant mountain slugs in British Columbia? Whole towns have been engulfed...
Other factors: it'd be very unusual for a plane to precisely follow either the 49th parallel or the Quebec-Vermont border for a long time, those paths don't join any major airports. The only reason to do so would be to fly in the jetstream, so it'd have to be an east-bound flight, but the jetstream is rarely straight for hundreds of miles either. Nature doesn't usually operate in straight lines, only people do.
My first thought was that the picture's a Photoshopped fake. I saved it and had a close look at it, and there are places where the line doesn't seem to quite follow the terrain. Besides, for the line to appear that wide from 35,000 feet, it'd have to be many miles wide on the ground, and as far as I know we don't clear vegetation along the border like that, or paint the landscape to mark it. Double besides, the line is white, suggesting snow fills it, but there'd have to be a lot more snow elsewhere in the image to justify that belief. I think it's a fake.
Or a giant slug trail. What, you've never heard of the giant mountain slugs in British Columbia? Whole towns have been engulfed...
Insufficient data to solve it so far. The US-Canada border is straight for hundreds of miles only along the 49th parallel from Manitoba to British Columbia. There's a stretch of about 150 miles between Quebec and Vermont that's straight, but the first post in that link specified "hundreds of miles," which disqualifies that location. Or perhaps the poster was a little inaccurate? It does look more like the terrain between Quebec and Vermont than it does anything in western Canada. It's clearly not Manitoba or Saskatchewan, there's no terrain along the 49th parallel in those provinces that looks like that, so it'd have to be Alberta or British Columbia. But it doesn't look like the mountains I've seen while flying between Calgary and Vancouver either, they're much more angular and pointy.
Other factors: it'd be very unusual for a plane to precisely follow either the 49th parallel or the Quebec-Vermont border for a long time, those paths don't join any major airports. The only reason to do so would be to fly in the jetstream, so it'd have to be an east-bound flight, but the jetstream is rarely straight for hundreds of miles either. Nature doesn't usually operate in straight lines, only people do.
My first thought was that the picture's a Photoshopped fake. I saved it and had a close look at it, and there are places where the line doesn't seem to quite follow the terrain. Besides, for the line to appear that wide from 35,000 feet, it'd have to be many miles wide on the ground, and as far as I know we don't clear vegetation along the border like that, or paint the landscape to mark it. Double besides, the line is white, suggesting snow fills it, but there'd have to be a lot more snow elsewhere in the image to justify that belief. I think it's a fake.
Or a giant slug trail. What, you've never heard of the giant mountain slugs in British Columbia? Whole towns have been engulfed...
Other factors: it'd be very unusual for a plane to precisely follow either the 49th parallel or the Quebec-Vermont border for a long time, those paths don't join any major airports. The only reason to do so would be to fly in the jetstream, so it'd have to be an east-bound flight, but the jetstream is rarely straight for hundreds of miles either. Nature doesn't usually operate in straight lines, only people do.
My first thought was that the picture's a Photoshopped fake. I saved it and had a close look at it, and there are places where the line doesn't seem to quite follow the terrain. Besides, for the line to appear that wide from 35,000 feet, it'd have to be many miles wide on the ground, and as far as I know we don't clear vegetation along the border like that, or paint the landscape to mark it. Double besides, the line is white, suggesting snow fills it, but there'd have to be a lot more snow elsewhere in the image to justify that belief. I think it's a fake.
Or a giant slug trail. What, you've never heard of the giant mountain slugs in British Columbia? Whole towns have been engulfed...