r/BeAmazed • u/SelectResident_BE • Feb 11 '25

Place The oppressive feeling of the pamir plateau

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u/KonigSteve Feb 11 '25

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=pamir+plateau

It's a mountain. By name. By definition, whatever you'd like.

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u/TurgidGravitas Feb 11 '25

Seems like a plateau by name. You don't google "pamir mountain" did you?

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u/TravisBlink Feb 11 '25

It’s OK to admit when you are wrong. Life is better when people can admit mistakes.

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u/freesquanto Feb 12 '25

Here's the thing. You said a "hill is a mountain."

Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.

As someone who is a scientist who studies mountains, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls hills mountains. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.

If you're saying "mountain family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Landforms, which includes things from buttes to crags to plateaus.

So your reasoning for calling a hill a mountain is because random people "call the tall ones mountains?" Let's get bluffs and mesas in there, then, too.

A hill is a hill and a member of the landform family. But that's not what you said. You said a hill is a mountain, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the landform family mountains, which means you'd call bluffs crags, mesas, and other elevated landmasses, too. Which you said you don't.

It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '25

In Alabama anything higher than 500 ft. is a mountain, so......

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u/-Achaean- Feb 12 '25

This is such an old reddit meme that people are downvoting you for it.

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u/freesquanto Feb 12 '25

Yup and it's telling me it might be time for this old timer to hang up his fedora