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minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoAh btw, this is the gravitational form (geoid) of earth: The meters is the height difference of orbit.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 month agoDamn, now I get why cartographers and the like always try to make it prettier in post! Never thought I’d be body shaming the Earth, but here we are 🤷
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 month agoThat is pretty severely exaggerated though to emphasize the form.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 month agoLol, but the diff is actually x10000 or something, to make it more visible
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoThat’s just mean! 😉
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 month agoIf the Earth was scaled down to the size of a billiard ball, it would be the smoothest billiard ball in existence.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoExcept for Howie Mandel’s head, of course.
minus-squareSwingingTheLamp@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI’ll take your word for it, because it would be awfully hard to compare it to other billiard balls after we’d asphyxiated from the atmosphere dissipating into space.
minus-squareGladaed@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoThis is not to scale. If it was you would see a perfect fucking sphere cause it’s that damn small of an image.
minus-squarejustlemmyin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoIts the water that makes the world go around
Ah btw, this is the gravitational form (geoid) of earth:
The meters is the height difference of orbit.
Damn, now I get why cartographers and the like always try to make it prettier in post!
Never thought I’d be body shaming the Earth, but here we are 🤷
That is pretty severely exaggerated though to emphasize the form.
Lol, but the diff is actually x10000 or something, to make it more visible
That’s just mean! 😉
If the Earth was scaled down to the size of a billiard ball, it would be the smoothest billiard ball in existence.
Except for Howie Mandel’s head, of course.
I’ll take your word for it, because it would be awfully hard to compare it to other billiard balls after we’d asphyxiated from the atmosphere dissipating into space.
This is not to scale. If it was you would see a perfect fucking sphere cause it’s that damn small of an image.
Its the water that makes the world
go around