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From: rcb@rti-sel.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: A couple of old Physics puzzles
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Date: Tue, 25-Dec-84 21:19:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 25 21:19:25 1984
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> >> 
> >> 	1)Why are the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans at different
> >> levels?
> >> 
> >
> >	Who said they are at different levels.
> >
> 	The water levels at the two end of the Panama canal
> sometimes differ by more than a foot! (Locks and all that)

	I was under the impression that the locks were used to raise the ship
up to the level a lake that cuts through most of the entire width of the canal
area. The ship was then lowered back to the level of the pacific. This was
simpler than dredging the entire length of the existing lake. Example:

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					Randy Buckland
					Research Triangle Institute
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