On Sunday, December 14, 2014 2:00:15 PM UTC-8, Alan Baker wrote:
On 2014-12-14 21:43:22 +0000, said:

On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 13:21:18 -0800 (PST), pigo
wrote this crap:

On Sunday, December 14, 2014 9:26:54 AM UTC-7, wrote:

How can that be possible? Even rats don't want to live in a desert.

I've done it. On a lake. Beautiful.

There's no natural lakes in the desert. Where were you? Lake Mead?
That hardly qualifies as a desert.

Merry Christmas everyone. God bless us all.
God bless America.

Wow.

I've never met anyone quite so willing to be a buffoon as you, LIEutenant..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes_of_Ounianga

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaz_Lake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owens_Lake

A desert is NOT defined as the absence of all water.

Unfortunately, Owens Lake (just off to the east of 395 on the way to Mammoth) isn't all it used to be. The City of LA had to be sued before they allowed at least enough water to escape their ditches to wet down the dust so it would stop blowing all the way to San Diego. There used to be steamboats that crossed the lake since it was the easiest way to some of the mines around Death Valley, but not for the last 90 years or so.

In the movie Bad Day at Black Rock, the railroad station shown is just north of the former lake.