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- LordZodd, on 10/11/2007, -2/+170Remember when....?
The Nile was the longest river in the world?
There were 9 planets in our solar system?
etc
etc
etc - Anrkist, on 10/11/2007, -2/+89Someones in denile.
- TzarAdam, on 10/11/2007, -3/+66Take that 7th grade geography teacher...
- hankadebisi, on 10/11/2007, -4/+65And geography book publishers rejoice at an excuse for a new edition...or supplement, at least.
- pinkxmastree, on 10/11/2007, -4/+58those Egyptians better start digging
- swiftekho, on 10/11/2007, -1/+52Dude, no one used Encarta anyways... The only thing it was good for was that maze game it had on it...
- compgeek, on 10/11/2007, -3/+33All the textbook publishers go YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAA!!!!! *lil john voice*
- quomen, on 10/11/2007, -2/+30I have first hand experience with this. I have done a lot of research and..
have concluded that encarta sucks. I remember the days of doing research for papers and when encarta online would tell me to register and pay or basicallly suck it. Well you know what encarta? SUCK YOU! - MikeXpop, on 10/11/2007, -0/+23@resplence
What? Dumont didn't invent "aviation", and neither did the Wright Brothers. The Montgolfier brothers flew hot air baloons way back before any of them were even born.
The Wrights are famous for building and flying the first heavier-than-air aircraft. Dumont completed and flew one in 1906. This was a full 3 years after Wilbur and Orville flew the Wright Flyer. - AceTracer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19I'm disappointed by the poster's lack of pun skills. I propose we change the title to "The Amazon is the largest river; Africa in denile."
- lavoie0ca, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19you MUST be new.
- locojones, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Africa: "Mine's the longest!"
South America: "Nu-uh Egypt, mine's bigger than your's is!"
Proceed to measuring boys. - Zique, on 10/11/2007, -4/+17Once again, science changes a simple fact in the name of "more accurate information"! When will it end?
- KMye, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12http://encarta.msn.com/media_461527276_761557976_-1_1/Cheetah_Running.html
Wow, still does, but of course it doesn't run in Firefox, so ***** em - ilikefun, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Whip?
- tothemax64, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Hey! does this now make it so I passed geography back way back when?
- KMye, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10bwana, why do you and your peers insist on continuing to make some of us feel so old...I remember encarta before it had a year behind it...I wonder if the online version still has that cheetah video...
and if drunkentoad wasn't joking, maybe I'm getting senile... - themastersb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9As soon as I saw this I remembered that my damn geo teacher marked my answer for this being the longest as wrong.
- LaueOfficer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9OKAY!!!!
(too much?) sorry :( - ilikefun, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10FTA: "There has been a healthy academic debate over the world's longest river for some years and the claim from Brazil may not go unchallenged."
you're damn right this wont go unchallenged! i challenge it! right here, right now! pussy... - rolfeman02, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8What??
- gemlarin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Quick someone fire up Google Earth.
- estacado, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Not buried, BLOCKED!
- marshmallowsoup, on 10/11/2007, -8/+14It is important that facts can change. That as we expand our knowledge science can bring us the most accurate information of our surroundings. If you want to believe in something static you can visit the creation museum
- MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -2/+7I think the Brazilians have river envy...
We Egyptians have the pyramids and the Nile... and sand. That's pretty much it, why deprive us of that. Why I remember back in the Egyptian sexual revolution of 1960 several men began wearing thongs, but we thought it better that Brazilian women wear them.. so we let them have that tradition. Yes, it's true.
No, it's not. - badken, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8It's not the length, it's what you do with it.
- ThePotatoe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4if it aint in 'merica it don' break no records
- drunkentoad, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5haha, that'll teach me for thinking people will get "nerdy computer software" jokes. My bad. I should probably look up sarcasm on encarta huh.
- Erectile, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Another gigantic dick measuring contest.
- unloud, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4"Don't worry Zique, I got it. /sarcasm"
Wait. . . so, because you were being sarcastic, you DIDN'T get it? Grr with the invalid sarcasm HTML - KMye, on 10/11/2007, -5/+7Don't worry Zique, I got it.
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/sarcasm - resplence, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"The previous length (which had it as 2nd longest) was based on an estimate. Unlike the Nile, the Amazon runs through a rainforest, and merges with many tributaries, so determining which one is the source is extremely difficult. Especially in situations like this, where the source may be located in remote and difficult to travel/map mountainous regions."
And yes, we do. - Zique, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Damn, I thought I was obvious enough with the sarcasm.
- proliance, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The Wrights are credited with the first successful powered and controlled flight. However, if they had not invented the first airplane, someone else would have shortly thereafter.
What Wilbur and Orville should be famous for (imho) are the highly efficient propellers they invented. Even today's computer designed propellers are only slightly more efficient.
But their most important invention is still used by all aircraft and automobile manufacturers today. The good old wind tunnel. - shortarabguy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3When I was your age, Pluto was a planet, and the Nile was the longest river in the world...
Damn whipper snappers on my lawn...
Seriously, how do we have a debate over the starting point of a river? I honestly thought that was beneath us( no pun intended).
Okay, pun partially intended... But still, it's like having a debate over who's taller. Don't we have scientific tools to measure this kind of crap without other people questioning the results? - knutslie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2There is no Amazon river. It´s just a figment of the brazilian propaganda machine.
- Duhitsmichael, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2That was so clever.
- LaueOfficer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It's not the size of the boat, it's the motion of the ocea... err, river.
- graderguy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1....and yet you read it, AND commented on it..
- m00dy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1lol...what an idoit I am...my bad must of been high or something when I wrote that
- RobotCitizen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Shouldn't the Nile be longer? It's African, after all. Or is that just a myth?
- Arthere, on 02/17/2009, -0/+1Take that Nile!
http://www.creditcardassociate.com/amazon-visa.htm ... - vornan19, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I know I'll sound like a 'know it all' but...this is a surprise to whom?
Encarta=Microsoft. MS can't really make anything good. Just take a good, objective look at MS's collections of bloatware.
On a related note: I must be a genius because I've known the Amazon was the longest since like, always. - MeekoTheRaccoon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I remember years ago, my substitute MUSIC teacher of all people told us that the Amazon was the longest river.
I remember it clearly, cause I *knew* (at least back then) that he was so wrong.
He wasn't a liar.
He's just so Egotistically full of himself.
...Which is that not that much better. - skeldor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0It does make a difference..............
http://www.skeldor.blogspot.com/ - oana77, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Amazon sounds wilder, Nile sounds more romantic to me.
Oana,
http://benvarim.blogspot.com/ - fatdog789, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3The more important information in this case is the *actual starting point* of the Amazon. The previous length (which had it as 2nd longest) was based on an estimate. Unlike the Nile, the Amazon runs through a rainforest, and merges with many tributaries, so determining which one is the source is extremely difficult. Especially in situations like this, where the source may be located in remote and difficult to travel/map mountainous regions.
- KMye, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3Well, Africans are just going to have to figure out some way to deal with these volcanoes...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile#Lost_headwaters - Smartkidz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0LoL...Just wow. :)
- bobba, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Sorry to get involved in this off-topic flight thing, but the Wright brothers weren't the first in a heavier than air self-propelled craft, it was Richard Pearse in New Zealand. Check it out. http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/pearse1.html
Sorry NC, you'll need another 'first' now... -
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