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veggie warrior's avatar

Instead of measuring peaks from afar, on the horizon, with theodolites, today's surveyors get help from satellites. They have to climb up Everest with a GPS receiver. It's not easy, but it's more accurate. In general, it is supposed that due to plate tectonics, Everest is very slowly growing.

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Stephan Sander-Faes's avatar

Thank you for pointing this out! I should have thought about it, but your explanation makes a lot of sense!

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ExcessDeathsAU's avatar

If you are desperate for someone to translate Hebrew for you I could ask someone.

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Stephan Sander-Faes's avatar

Thanks a lot, but it's a name and an address, and I don't think it's that important right now.

I mentioned it because I find that linguistic combination quite, well, 'interesting'.

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