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Proof Is In: Kansas Is Flatter Than A Pancake
plotdot writes "When motorists drive across Kansas with its expansive, fertile fields of grain, they most often observe that the state is flat as a pancake. Now, three scientists have proved that observation wrong. The May/June issue of Annals of Improbable Research
(AIR) carries a story by Mark Fonstad, William Pugatch, and Brandon Vogt proving that Kansas is actually flatter than a pancake."
I live in Nebraska, I've been through Kansas a number of times. I've also seen genuine hills and mountains while travelling outside the region. I believe most of the "hills" in Kansas and Nebraska (and Oklahoma etc.) are officially called "rolling plains". I think it's a matter of human nature, thinking what you have is better than it actually is.
A similar argument could be started when talking about football.
But why is the rum gone?
What they carefully left out was that every place you can think of is flatter than a pancake. "Nepal is flatter than a pancake" would have been news to most people, but not so funny.
Driving hardly represents and acurate sample of the state. I would assume you used the interstate systems of roads?
Civil enginers worked very hard to make sure that the interstates were as flat and strait as posible, there is even a requirement in the laws establishing the interstate system that a certen persentage of the interstates be totaly strate and flat so that they can be used as runways in times of war.
I don't really thing the fact that a government employe actualy did his job should be held against a whole state.