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"I support the Great Lakes. They are beautiful. They are big. Very deep. Record deepness, right?" (Original Post) Miles Archer Mar 2019 OP
Why yes, Lake Baikal is very deep. The deepest! Blues Heron Mar 2019 #1
The great Lakes is the largest body of fresh water on earth at140 Mar 2019 #5
Fuck you Drumpf, you Nazi. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2019 #2
He called Schiff pencil neck in his vicious attack of lies. mobeau69 Mar 2019 #3
Remember how shocked Americans were when GHW Bush called his opponents tblue37 Mar 2019 #24
I remember after his VP debate with Geraldine Ferraro NewJeffCT Mar 2019 #43
Yep. nt tblue37 Mar 2019 #44
Jump in and tweet us when you get to the bottom rurallib Mar 2019 #4
Especially Lake Erie with its average depth of 15'. marble falls Mar 2019 #6
I did not know that... bluecollar2 Mar 2019 #11
Lake Erie is an old age lake trying to turn into a swamp. marble falls Mar 2019 #31
I learn so much on DU...n/t bluecollar2 Mar 2019 #41
I'm not sure where you got that information from, but it's not correct. GoCubsGo Mar 2019 #33
Its what I learned in school. Frankly though your numbers still make Erie pretty shallow ... marble falls Mar 2019 #35
Oh, not arguing that it isn't shalllow. GoCubsGo Mar 2019 #37
Just arguing, eh? marble falls Mar 2019 #38
Yes. I'm extra cranky today. GoCubsGo Mar 2019 #40
Ha! java108 Mar 2019 #42
What a complete utter moron Va Lefty Mar 2019 #7
He forgot to say that the Rockies were very high. Very large. YOHABLO Mar 2019 #8
Record highness, I bet. 3Hotdogs Mar 2019 #14
Name one Donald.. Historic NY Mar 2019 #9
Ha! You just know he can't SammyWinstonJack Mar 2019 #39
Idiot! n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2019 #10
He "supports" the lakes? Ilsa Mar 2019 #12
It means he should go jump into one... JHB Mar 2019 #23
Jesus Fucking Christ Blue Owl Mar 2019 #13
I assumed this was from the Onion, until I watched the video groundloop Mar 2019 #15
Naturally he's unfamiliar with the word "depth." nolabear Mar 2019 #16
Please let him go play in the street unsupervised ProudLib72 Mar 2019 #17
He also knows "a lot about wind" DesertRat Mar 2019 #18
I love the wind. GreenEyedLefty Mar 2019 #36
The Great Lakes Mendocino Mar 2019 #19
I don't think I believe you, Trump, area51 Mar 2019 #20
Pathological Liar Dirty Socialist Mar 2019 #21
Forget Him ProfessorGAC Mar 2019 #25
+1 Kurt V. Mar 2019 #28
Goddamn asshole dalton99a Mar 2019 #22
Not even the deepest in the USA muriel_volestrangler Mar 2019 #26
Wow. His dementia is showing. DetlefK Mar 2019 #27
It's not dementia. Aussie105 Mar 2019 #29
LOCK US UP! MyOwnPeace Mar 2019 #30
I think they're wet, too. Big and deep . . . what a revelation to the world! Vinca Mar 2019 #32
Asking the wrong crowd superpatriotman Mar 2019 #34
Message auto-removed Name removed Apr 2019 #45

at140

(6,110 posts)
5. The great Lakes is the largest body of fresh water on earth
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 09:07 PM
Mar 2019

and were formed with the meltdown of glaciers after the last ice age.

tblue37

(65,357 posts)
24. Remember how shocked Americans were when GHW Bush called his opponents
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 05:26 AM
Mar 2019

Bozos? Everyone thought it was beneath the dignity of the office for him to stoop to such name calling.

And the expletives in Nixon's Watergate tapes shocked the public, too, even though they were not even uttered in public.

Talk about how Trump has defined deviancy downward!

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
43. I remember after his VP debate with Geraldine Ferraro
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 10:08 AM
Mar 2019

and he said he thought he kicked a little ass, it was also outrageous.

GoCubsGo

(32,083 posts)
33. I'm not sure where you got that information from, but it's not correct.
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 08:05 AM
Mar 2019

The average depth is around 62 feet, depending on the water levels, which fluctuate. The western basin averages around 25-30 feet, while the remainder is 60-80 feet on average.

marble falls

(57,083 posts)
35. Its what I learned in school. Frankly though your numbers still make Erie pretty shallow ...
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 08:52 AM
Mar 2019

and Erie is still the shallowest Great Lake. Its still an old age lake and its still trying to devolve into a swamp.

Lake Superior - 489 ft / 149 m average 1,333 ft / 406 m maximum
Lake Michigan - 279 ft / 85 m average 923 ft / 281 m maximum
Lake Huron - 195 ft / 59 m average 750 ft / 229 m maximum
Lake Erie - 62 ft / 19 m average 210 ft / 64 m maximum
Lake Ontario - 283 ft / 86 m average 802 ft / 244 m maximum

From Wiki:

Lake Erie[5] (/ˈɪəri/; French: Lac Érié) is the fourth-largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the eleventh-largest globally if measured in terms of surface area.[1][6] It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes[7][8] and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time. At its deepest point Lake Erie is 210 feet (64 metres) deep.

By area Erie is the 11th largest Lake, by depth it isn't in the top 40.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_by_depth

GoCubsGo

(32,083 posts)
37. Oh, not arguing that it isn't shalllow.
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 09:50 AM
Mar 2019

It's just not THAT shallow. They would never have all that tanker and cargo traffic on it if it was. They'd bottom out. And, yes. All lakes tend to devolve into wetlands over time.

java108

(129 posts)
42. Ha!
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 10:03 AM
Mar 2019

I was just coming here to comment that one could practically wade across Lake Erie, it's so shallow (in comparison to the other Great Lakes, anyway).

groundloop

(11,519 posts)
15. I assumed this was from the Onion, until I watched the video
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 11:46 PM
Mar 2019

NOBODY can be so fucking stupid as to say that shit, yet Tiny does it time after time after time. He and the former half governor from Alaska would make some beautiful word-salad together .

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
18. He also knows "a lot about wind"
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 11:49 PM
Mar 2019


"If Hillary got in... you'd be doing wind. Windmills. Weeeee. And if it doesn't blow, you can forget about television for that night. 'Darling, I want to watch television.' 'I'm sorry! The wind isn't blowing.' I know a lot about wind."

GreenEyedLefty

(2,073 posts)
36. I love the wind.
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 08:56 AM
Mar 2019

It reveals what a bloated, fake, ignorant buffoon Trump is.

We've all seen the clips.

Bring on the wind. Whee, indeed.

Mendocino

(7,491 posts)
19. The Great Lakes
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 11:51 PM
Mar 2019

average depth/deepest spot

Superior-483/1336
Michigan-279/925
Huron-195/748
Erie-63/210
Ontario-283/804

area51

(11,909 posts)
20. I don't think I believe you, Trump,
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 12:12 AM
Mar 2019

about how deep the lakes are; I want you to go out there and test them yourself.

Aussie105

(5,397 posts)
29. It's not dementia.
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 06:20 AM
Mar 2019

Whatever it is, it's contagious.
People who see someone with dementia don't cheer, they go 'WTF????', but this lot does cheer.

Hmmm . . . like dementia, but contagious? Whatever word describes that best? Delusional? Total voluntary loss of any capacity for intellectual comprehension and logical thinking?

Danger to society! Lock them all up!

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