Landed safely...
...And even a little early. Woot. In case I forget to ask later, what's with all the circular fields you see as you're coming in to land? Did Colorado decide square or rectangular fields were too boring?
posted by ktbuffy at 11:11 AM
4 Comments:
They're square fields with circular irrigation! :)
1. Take one (1) sqare field.
2. Stick a big-ass post in the middle of it.
3. Attach a long pipe to the post, on a pivot, and mount it on motorized wheels.
Turn the motorized wheels on, turn on the water, and you have, basically, a pipe, rolling around and and around in a circle, over the field, like one of those horse-training things.
Irrigates whatever it's carried past, but that means that the corners of each field get no water, which means they do as well as anything agricultural does in Colorado.
I.e.: It dies.
1/12/2006 1:20 PM
Also: WELCOME TO COLORADO.
*sharpens the knives and rewinds his DVD copy of "Saw".
1/12/2006 1:22 PM
Um ... what he said.
I remember first seeing pictures of that type of irrigation in National Geographic years ago. They were using it in Saudi or something like that. I was tickled to see it when I got here.
And -- welcome!
1/12/2006 4:58 PM
I've seen that a few times when far far overhead flying from one coast to the other. Very strange to see. Like weird geodesic art projects on a giant scale.
1/12/2006 11:09 PM
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