<html><head></head><body>Sorry, the center of the universe is in Tulsa on the pedestrian bridge across the railroad tracks downtown. <br>
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Also, Postgres tells me that the geographic center of the lower 48 is at 39.5359,-99.1558 (ish)<br>
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Yours in precision,<br>
-Nathan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Clifford Snow <clifford@snowandsnow.us> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Just to remind everyone, we have a sign in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle that claims it is the Center of the Universe. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Paul Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org" target="_blank">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>></span> wrote:<br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Friday, November 15, 2013, wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr" style="font-family:'Calibri','Segoe UI','Meiryo','Microsoft YaHei UI','Microsoft JhengHei UI','Malgun Gothic','sans-serif';font-size:12pt"><div>Seeing as how the “official” location of the lower 48’s centroid is in north-central Kansas, I’d have to dispute your claim that Tulsa is the closest major metro area. Looks to me that Lincoln, Nebraska would be the closest. There’s also Wichita, Omaha, Topeka, and Kansas City.</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Just going by the claims of some random KDOT sign along US 169 nearish Caney, stating it's at the geographic center of the lower 48th.</div>
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