Remember kids if the earth was the size of a bowling ball it would be smoother than an actual bowling ball to the touch
History_Critical on
Tf the flat erathers are doing here
6-toe-9 on
It’s an oblate spheroid, not a sphere. The Earth’s poles are slightly flattened and it bulges at the equator. Think of it as if you took a soccer ball, deflated it slightly, and squashed it a little bit. So, Earth is round, but not perfectly round.
thorstenofthir on
Could you explain my Englisch sucks
SomeBlueDude12 on
Even with the water removed & it’d still look nearly perfectly round
I mean, it isnt but in the grand scale it’ll still have rounded edges
BladeOfWoah on
The distance between Earth’s highest point (Mt Everest) and it’s lowest point about 19 – 20 km while the Earth’s mean radius from its core to the surface is approximately 6300km.
So that massive gap 19 – 20km variation is only 0.3% of the Earth surface. Woth that in mind, it should be no surprise that Earth is pretty much perfectly smooth and round.
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It’s not a sphere though
At least they correctly show it being flat!
Remember kids if the earth was the size of a bowling ball it would be smoother than an actual bowling ball to the touch
Tf the flat erathers are doing here
It’s an oblate spheroid, not a sphere. The Earth’s poles are slightly flattened and it bulges at the equator. Think of it as if you took a soccer ball, deflated it slightly, and squashed it a little bit. So, Earth is round, but not perfectly round.
Could you explain my Englisch sucks
Even with the water removed & it’d still look nearly perfectly round
I mean, it isnt but in the grand scale it’ll still have rounded edges
The distance between Earth’s highest point (Mt Everest) and it’s lowest point about 19 – 20 km while the Earth’s mean radius from its core to the surface is approximately 6300km.
So that massive gap 19 – 20km variation is only 0.3% of the Earth surface. Woth that in mind, it should be no surprise that Earth is pretty much perfectly smooth and round.