GPS Longevity

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Stella Starr wrote:

Longworth wrote:

I always have to try hard to stay awake flying over flat
agricultural land like Iowa in all seasons.

Me too. It's like slowly driving across a MAP of Iowa. A couple years
ago scientific measurements confirmed that the sky there is also hazier
than it used to be, largely because of transpiration from the crops and
dust from cultivation. Anyone who lives there can tell you Iowa's long
been known as the most biologically-altered state in the nation.

I thought the haze was related to Mt St Helens...

--
Bob Noel
(goodness, please trim replies!!!)

Not all mountains are just gray and brown. Here in the Northeast,
the Catskills and Adirondacks wear coats of many breathtaking colors
throughout the year.

Very true. That's some very beautiful country to over fly, although I must
confess that's it's always been so danged hazy when I've been around there
that the colors looked like mud and the mountains looked like big hills.

And don't get me wrong -- Iowa is plenty boring between the time the snow
melts and when things green up. We're talking an endless landscape of
brown and black mud, stretching to the horizon in all directions.

But when it greens up it does so with breath-taking speed, and is absolutely
gorgeous. The lushness of this state never ceases to amaze me -- but that,
of course, is why Iowa is the bread-basket of the world. EVERYTHING grows
here.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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