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> tossing a rock across the river Rivers can be miles wide. That's actually the norm in a lot of people's experiences. Where I am from, "tossing a rock across
by javert 6y ago
> tossing a rock across the river
Rivers can be miles wide. That's actually the norm in a lot of people's experiences.
Where I am from, "tossing a rock across the river" would be taken to mean something that's impossible.
- wil421 6y agoOP used his own version of a stone’s throw away. It’s farther away than a Hop, Skip, and, a Jump but not as close as spitting distance. Still not sure if a Hop, Skip, and a Jump is closer or father away than something you wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole.
- grimjack00 6y agoThe world record for the triple jump [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_jump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_jump] is just over 18 meters, so quite a bit further than a 10 foot pole.
- chihuahua 6y agoBut is a triple jump the same as a hop, skip and jump? It seems to me that a hop and a skip are each smaller than a jump.
- lmkg 6y agoThe triple-jump event is literally described as "a hop, skip, and jump." The three bounding motions are done in a sequence without breaking forward momentum, so "triple jump" is an accurate description of the combination, while "hop, skip and jump" is an accurate description of each of the three bounds individually.
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- DoreenMichele 6y agohttps://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2013WR015068 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201... https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/34400/how-wide-can-a-river-be https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/34400/how-... -- Potentially 60 miles, if you consider The Florida Everglades to be a slow moving river. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-water-depth-m-and-water-body-WB-width-m-in-the-river-and-the-forest-with_tbl1_328429345 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-water-depth-m-an... This site lists 30m as "average" for river width. No clue what rivers they were measuring. https://opb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/buac35-sci-riverwidth/river-width-north-american-rivers-and-their-widths/ https://opb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/buac35-sci-riverwi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River It seems there is no readily available canned answer for average river width and I've already grown bored with this rabbit hole. Note to self: Vernacular measures unwelcome on HN.
- samatman 6y agoIllegitimi non carborundum, Doreen.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoNah. I have had one whole class in Hydrology. I read books about water (rights and development history, for example) for fun. [1] I just tuckered out before getting to the part of trying to look up average river width for my home state of Georgia. I'm just tired today, as is often the case, or I would be all over that. [1] Citation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782650 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782650
- javert 6y agoFYI, my point about river width was not a put down in any way. I'm not sure if you took it that way. It seems like other people did. Average river width is not representative because there are often big population centers near wider parts of rivers. For example, when the east cost of the US was settled, people built cities on the wide, navigable (for big ships) parts of rivers that were close to the ocean.
- benatkin 6y agoWhat you often see about really wide rivers: > Depending on the geographer, the Río de la Plata may be considered a river, an estuary, a gulf, or a marginal sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata Fine to assume the river isn't miles wide.