The southernmost point of Canada is as far south as (the northernmost point of) California.
Does the 180th meridian really count as an absolute east/west point? I ask because even if you were at an appropriate place on the meridian, you could still continue going east or west while remaining in the United States, and so it seems strange to call it the easternmost or westernmost point. East doesn’t change into another direction at 180 in the same way that at the north pole, you can’t go north any more.
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet…
just sayin’ 
Thanks for the link
There are locations in Saskatchewan that are south of Manitoba.
Actually, they found that doing that damaged their own planes. It was more efficient to simply disrupt the airflow over the V-1’s control surfaces by getting their wing close to it; the airflow turbulence coming off their wing would send the V-1 out of control.
Most of them were shot down.
There’s a Bob Stevens cartoon depicting a pilot coming up on a V-1. He says to himself, ‘What an easy target! I’ll just get nice and close and then open up with the guns…’
Oh, man, did I just ever blow a fascinating hour.
Thanks for the link!
This is how I originally parsed it too. I didn’t have one string “floating” above the Earth’s surface, I was picturing string wrapped in layers until a height of 1" was created. Kind of like having 1" worth of toilet paper wrapper around the cardboard tube.
Apologies for the poor phrasing; in retrospect I probably should have avoided the word “wrap” in the description of the lengthened string. “Floating above” was indeed the situation I was trying to describe.
My paternal grandfather’s only aerial kill of the war was a V-1, and that’s how he meant to bring it down; by bringing the wing of his Tempest just under the V-1’s wing, causing it to spin away and into the Channel. Unfortunately, he actually hit it with his wing, but fortunately didn’t suffer any damage beyond some mocking.
As best as we can tell, monkees floated across the ocean from Africa to South America. Although at the time they were much closer together, they were still separated by (anyone know about how many) miles of open water.
You’d think that being capable rafters that South American monkees would have gotten the winning ticket in the evolution lottery, but no. They were happy staying in the trees.
You’re telling us that monkeys built rafts?!!
Monkees. Like beatles, a cut above the standard variety, evolution-wise.
No, that’s not what he said. He said monkees, not monkeys.
I don’t believe it happened tho. I have it on good authority that Mickey is hydrophobic. Or Peter. Whatever.
ETA: Damn you and your faster posting style, Larry!
Just a floating tree would probably work.
Well, millions and millions of years is, as Cracked might say, a real fucking long time.
He has rabies?
He’d no doubt be torqued about that comment.
But if monkees tried to cross the Atlantic on a log raft, they’d end up in Davy Jones’s locker! 
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Not every European country lies totally in Europe; Russia and Turkey, for example, are European countries despite having large portions of their area in Asia. Given that information, can you name the European country whose western boundary is farthest east? The answer is surprising but true.
A small portion of westernmost Kazakhstan lies in Europe according to the commonly accepted line dividing the two continents.