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- From: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
- Subject: Re: When will K2 grow up?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.172833.29585@rosevax.rosemount.com>
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- Reply-To: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
- Organization: Rosemount, Inc.
- References: <2930236888.7.p00168@psilink.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:28:33 GMT
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- p00168@psilink.com ("James F. Tims") writes:
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- : Speaking of CNN, has anybody predicted a date when their science news
- : staff will discover that Mt. Everest isn't the highest mountain on Earth?
- : I have actually sent them two letters, referring them to the _Information
- : Please Almanac_ and to the _World Almanac_, but I heard about a week
- : ago that Mt. Everest still takes the cake at CNN. I have even tried
- : calling their news hotline. No doubt they thought it was a
- : crank call. I give up.
-
- There was a Nova episode a few months ago about an expidition to
- measure the heights of Everest and K2. It was determined that
- Everest's peak was higher than K2's. I don't believe everything I
- hear on CNN, but you aren't suggesting that I doubt Nova, are you?
-
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