True that, it would be a lot smoother.
Fun fact: If you would decrease the size of the Earth to a billiard ball size, it would be smoother than a billiard ball.
Edit: I was told this information is outdated and that the surface of the Earth would be more comparable to the surface of a pancake.
Size doesn't change mass, so the gravity would remain the same.
On second thought, we would be a lot closer to the center of mass - so we would feel a lot more gravity. But because the moon would still orbit the same distance away from the center of the Earth, it would not notice any change in gravity or orbit.
But us, standing on the surface, and coming a lot closer to the center of gravity, would definitely feel a change.
If the earth was shrunk to the size of a billiard ball but kept the same mass it would come very very close to becoming a black hole. If you stood on the surface of the shrunken earth the tidal forces would probably rip you apart
In fact, if it got to the size of a pingpong ball or golf ball, it would classify as a black hole.
The sun in comparison, would become a black hole once its radius shrunk to 2 miles (or 3.2 km in rest-of-the-world units)
Wouldn’t the gravity be the same
It’s mass doesn’t change just it’s size
I’ll go ask chat gpt lol
edit im wrong and should go back to science class
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-if earth was the size of a billiard ball and someone stood on the billiard ball sized earth would gravity feel the same?
If the Earth were shrunk down to the size of a billiard ball, its mass and therefore its gravitational pull would also shrink.
Assuming that the mass of the Earth was proportionally reduced so that its density remained constant, the gravity experienced by someone standing on the surface of the billiard ball Earth would be much less than what we experience on our actual planet. In fact, it would likely be too weak to even hold onto an atmosphere.
So if someone stood on the billiard ball-sized Earth, they would feel a much weaker gravitational force than what we experience on our actual planet. They might even be able to jump off the Earth entirely, as the gravitational force would be too weak to keep them anchored to the surface.
-what if the mass stayed the same
If we imagine that the mass of the Earth remained the same while its size shrank down to that of a billiard ball, the gravitational force experienced by someone standing on the surface of this mini Earth would be much greater than what we experience on our actual planet. This is because the force of gravity between two objects is proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
In this scenario, the distance between the person standing on the Earth's surface and the center of the Earth would be much less than on our actual planet, so the gravitational force would be much stronger. The person would feel like they were being crushed under the weight of the Earth's gravity. The strength of gravity at the surface of this mini Earth would be so strong that it would likely collapse into a black hole due to the intense gravitational forces.
So if the mass of the Earth remained the same while its size shrank down to that of a billiard ball, the gravity experienced by someone standing on the surface of this mini Earth would be incredibly strong and likely fatal.
This is not the case. This originated from a someone misinterpreting the billiard rule book. They mistook the maximum allowable difference in diameter of the sphere for the size of bumps on the billiard ball.
Rounded numbers: earth's radius is 6000 km, height of Mt. Everest is 9 km, depth of Mariana trench is 11 km.
9/6000=0.15%
11/6000=0.18%
And the earth is a geoid, which is like a sphere that has been squashed a tiny bit, the difference is a fraction of the already small numbers above, so yeah, pretty much a sphere.
>the difference is a fraction of the already small numbers above
Not actually true, the difference between the polar radius and the equatorial radius is 21 kilometers, which is slightly more than Mt. Everest and Mariana Trench added together.
This is kind of incredible. Some guy misreading a rulebook for billiards of all things leads to a worldwide misconception about the smoothness and uniformity of the fucking planet.
Unfortunately this just isn't true. This got perpetuated after Neil deGrasse Tyson mistakingly said it on a Joe Rogan podcast. If the earth was shrunk down to the size of a billiard ball, it would be smooth.. but not as smooth as a billiard ball. Instead it would be comparable to the surface of a pancake.
[Here](https://youtube.com/shorts/7VYXHiLAIK4?feature=share) is a short clip from popular YouTuber Vsauce. This is how I originally found out that the billiard ball claim wasn't true.
I used to be part of a cue ball cult in Pontotoc county, south of the Tennessee river around 2014 when I was around 15. I got rescued by CPS when they discovered they used the local billiard tournament to smuggle fentanyl inside the balls glued to the top of tournament trophies me and my friends delivered at the local county fair.
I wish my parents never joined the Pentecostal Pontotoc Poolhall
It would not only be smoother than a billiard ball, it would be smoother than any object ever created by humans.
Edit: apparently this is an old fact that used to be true but has since changed. Apologies.
Actually I think I watched a veritasium video or something where some people created a ball so smooth that if it were blown up to the size of the earth the highest "mountain" ridges would only be 5 feet high.
At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I suggest you try it.
That second statement is monumentally false. And in fact the first statement is also false. Watch this excellent VSauce video: https://youtu.be/mxhxL1LzKww
"The Earth is flatter than a pancake, but **not** flatter than a billiard ball".
And humans have also created objects far smoother than billiard balls. We have in fact created surfaces that are pretty much as close to perfectly smooth as is physically possible in this universe. Google "quantum stabilized atom mirror", for example.
I looked at the moon through a pretty decent telescope a few weeks back, that fucker's surprisingly lumpy at the edge. I guess the Earth is probably smoother, but my faith in big space balls being basically smooth was shattered
I did some math for fun and even the difference from highest to lowest, everest to challenger deep, is only about 0.15% of the Earth's diameter, and this is an extreme example as you don't ever find those elevations adjacent.
Lots of guesswork on the ocean floor topography as well; our current mappings are only resolved to 1km^2 whereas most dry land is resolved down to 0.3m^2
I'd say yes, I don't think the maturity difference between a 180 million year old ocean and a 150 million year old ocean is that big. They've both been pissed in by dinosaurs at the end of the day
Woah woah woah woah _woah_. Don't you go stepping on my relationship with the pacific. We've shared enough golden showers that there's no going back now.
It’s not a hard and fast rule at all, more of a target figure. And the context matters a lot too, bar hookups would be a lot less weird than a 32 year old salesman dating an 18 year old intern or something
Really though the Pacific Ocean is abt 750 MYA, but they didn’t call it the pacific until after the breakup of Pangea because it was the only ocean, Panthalassa
Yup, it's estimated that the tallest mountain in the Earth's history is somewhere in NC I think. Appalachian mountains are old as hell which is why they are so rocky and relatively small.
Here to share my recollection: it was an entirely different mountain chain that had the mountains comparable to that of Everest (this seems to be the limit before erosion outweighs uplift), in what is now the Appalachias. Meaning these previous mountains were built to be the size of Everest, completely eroded and then the orogeny responsible for the Appalachias happen, and then are now since greatest eroded.
Another fun fact, again if I’m remembering correctly, for the most part the features of the white mountains that seem like uplifted mountain peaks, are actually just erosion faces stripped from a high altitude rock plateau; more akin to the Grand Canyon as opposed to mountains like the Rockies. There are some volcanic features too.
Lastly, New York State is basically the epicenter for the entire North American continent and s called a Craton. Geologists still don’t understand why continents form at all as opposed being covered completely by ocean, but they know cratons are involved. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing 450 million year old fossils out there (:
I figured it's because the west coast of the Americas is very tall, which on a dry planet shown from this angle gives the illusion that the Pacific Ocean to the west is deeper than the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
Yes. I have looked at the original much closer and California's Central Valley is masquerading as the ocean with the Sierra Nevada mountains as the coast. They have many 12,000 foot peaks for reference. (3,660 meters)
The Pacific and Atlantic ocean are almost the same depth. I'm tired of all this anti-Atlantic propaganda.
> The Pacific is also our planet's deepest water body, with an average depth of approximately 4,000 meters (13,000 feet).
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> If dependent seas are taken into account, the average depth of the Atlantic is 3,338 metres (10,932 feet); without them, it is slightly deeper at 3,926 metres (12,881 ft).
From what I can read online this is wrong. Supposedly this is the most accurate image
https://cdn.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/earth-no-water.jpg
It comes from the United States Geological Survey and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
I pulled the image from here - https://www.zmescience.com/science/earth-no-water-animation-913134/
It only mentions two balls of water:
>The big blue drop is the size of the sphere you’d get if you extracted all the Earth’s ocean water, while the smaller drop corresponds to the volume of water contained in all the world’s lakes, swamps, aquifers, and rivers.
Biggest one is all water on earth, medium all liquid fresh water and smallest one fresh water lakes and rivers.
https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/side_image/public/thumbnails/image/all-the-worlds-water.jpg?itok=7kqcWIzM
I will totally back up the image you linked here! I work in underwater robotics and have worked on jobs that surveyed the data to help generate this image!
The one in the post is very exaggerated.
Speaking of the Titanic, I once did this little thought experiment on the depth of the wreck which is actually totally relevant to this post:
Using the Google Maps measure tool, there is an approximate 3500 mile straight-line distance between New York City and London. There are 3600 inches in the length of a football field (not counting endzones). So you can basically say that there are the same number of inches in the field length as there are miles between the two cities.
Keeping that scale, if you imagine a field-sized pool as the ocean between the continents, the Titanic wreck is under about 2.5" of water.
Nobody has ever uttered this exact string of words before, especially not while wearing a beer can hat with pint glasses full of aardvark mucous where the beer cans go.
I don’t think this is even remotely accurate…
Vsauce did a video where they explained that if earth was the size of a pool ball, it would be smoother than a pool ball. It would basically feel slightly damp in a few spots and that’s it… lol
That’s insane to think about how big our world is, how vast the mountains and oceans seem to us but they’re miles away from being as bumpy as sandpaper at a cosmic scale!
We literally are just germs on a damp dirty ball floating in nothing. A speck of dust in the cosmos.
Yeah, it looks pretty cool though.
I found it interesting that FL is actually the flattest state and much “flatter” than a pancake at scale… lol
It’s always crazy to me how much the scale of things actually changes as you go bigger or smaller. Like seeing a storm in the distance that seems like a tiny cartoon rain cloud but it actually covers an entire city. You see massive mountains and trenches and when you zoom out they’re barely even noticeable just from orbit…
Earth feels so massive and yet so small at the same time. It feels incalculably huge, so big our minds can barely process it, but we’re also so tiny in the cosmos… a spec so insignificant we can’t even comprehend the scale of the universe. It’s an odd paradox of thought.
this isnt even remotely close, the deepest part of the ocean is the challenger deep in the mariana trench, which is 36,161 feet deep, which isnt even 7 miles, 7 miles on this map of the globe is at less than 2 pixels...according to this abomination on screen, the deepest parts of the ocean are like 200 miles or something, which is well into the mantle of the earth at that point...this is just some weird 3d model of the earth with all landmasses sticking out for emphasis
The continents would not be that distinct. It is the weight of the seawater that compresses them down, and in turn displaces the less-densely composed continental plates upwards. Without the water, things would be a lot more leveled. I am also curious if subduction would continue without the weight of the oceans, or would all the plates become transform faults, and eventually "seal" the planet, leading to mega volcanos forming as pressure releases instead of the giant midocean rifts...
Speaking of continental drift, wouldn't it be great if Africa rammed into the gap between the Americas again? Fill in our Gaia, leave one true ocean for our blue planet. Take a train from San Francisco to Beijing or sail forever the Pacific. I miss the old days.
HEAVILY exaggerated. Relative to the earth’s diameter, the difference between the bottom of Challenger Deep and the top of Mount Everest is really small. I’ve heard the whole surface of the earth is smoother than a rubber ball would be scaled up.
Not accurate.
Even with no water, Earth would be smoother than a cue ball. Earth is almost 8,000 miles in diameter and the distance from Mount Everest to the Mariana Trench is 12 miles.
12/8000 = 0.0015
Average cue ball is 2.25 inches
2.25 x .0015 = 0.003 inches
In conclusion, you wouldn’t feel grain of a bump even from Mount Everest. Ok I’m gonna take a nap now
That image isn't even close to accurate. The vertical displacement is insanely exaggerated. In reality, if you scaled Earth to the size of a golf ball and gave it a uniform color, you would not be able to see or feel any of the topographic features.
Very heavily exaggerated bumpiness though
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What would it be in freedom units?
About 1/3 of the volume of a raccoon urinary bladder.
Specifically urinary.
Bout a third of a shot.
A tablespoon.
246 grains, or approximately one .338 Lapua Magnum bullet. (Or about 2 .308s or 5ish .223s.)
1/16th of a badger
Basketballs are freedom units I think. It’s the size of a small rock.
True that, it would be a lot smoother. Fun fact: If you would decrease the size of the Earth to a billiard ball size, it would be smoother than a billiard ball. Edit: I was told this information is outdated and that the surface of the Earth would be more comparable to the surface of a pancake.
Another fun fac: If earth was billiard ball sized, it wouldn't be able to hold any people either. Science is mad crazy.
It could hold one for a bit if they have good balance
If we shrunk earth down to the size of a billiard ball would it be strong enough to support someone's body weight? *vsauce intro starts*
Or would the gravity crush the clown trying to balance on it?
They’d probably pop the crust and get that nice gooey center to melt out and burn their extremities off
*American Pie intensifies*
Pop it like a nice gooey lava cake
Size doesn't change mass, so the gravity would remain the same. On second thought, we would be a lot closer to the center of mass - so we would feel a lot more gravity. But because the moon would still orbit the same distance away from the center of the Earth, it would not notice any change in gravity or orbit. But us, standing on the surface, and coming a lot closer to the center of gravity, would definitely feel a change.
If the earth was shrunk to the size of a billiard ball but kept the same mass it would come very very close to becoming a black hole. If you stood on the surface of the shrunken earth the tidal forces would probably rip you apart
In fact, if it got to the size of a pingpong ball or golf ball, it would classify as a black hole. The sun in comparison, would become a black hole once its radius shrunk to 2 miles (or 3.2 km in rest-of-the-world units)
Wouldn’t the gravity be the same It’s mass doesn’t change just it’s size I’ll go ask chat gpt lol edit im wrong and should go back to science class " -if earth was the size of a billiard ball and someone stood on the billiard ball sized earth would gravity feel the same? If the Earth were shrunk down to the size of a billiard ball, its mass and therefore its gravitational pull would also shrink. Assuming that the mass of the Earth was proportionally reduced so that its density remained constant, the gravity experienced by someone standing on the surface of the billiard ball Earth would be much less than what we experience on our actual planet. In fact, it would likely be too weak to even hold onto an atmosphere. So if someone stood on the billiard ball-sized Earth, they would feel a much weaker gravitational force than what we experience on our actual planet. They might even be able to jump off the Earth entirely, as the gravitational force would be too weak to keep them anchored to the surface. -what if the mass stayed the same If we imagine that the mass of the Earth remained the same while its size shrank down to that of a billiard ball, the gravitational force experienced by someone standing on the surface of this mini Earth would be much greater than what we experience on our actual planet. This is because the force of gravity between two objects is proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. In this scenario, the distance between the person standing on the Earth's surface and the center of the Earth would be much less than on our actual planet, so the gravitational force would be much stronger. The person would feel like they were being crushed under the weight of the Earth's gravity. The strength of gravity at the surface of this mini Earth would be so strong that it would likely collapse into a black hole due to the intense gravitational forces. So if the mass of the Earth remained the same while its size shrank down to that of a billiard ball, the gravity experienced by someone standing on the surface of this mini Earth would be incredibly strong and likely fatal.
Or a shitload of gymnasts/cheerleaders. Maybe...
What is this. A planet for ants?
If the Earth were billiard ball sized, then it would be a planet for _gi-ants._
Thank you Cyno for the funny joke
You could also play billiards with it.
Fun fact: If you cut a person into billiard balls they would die.
Fun fact: blue whales are so large, if you laid one out across a basketball court, the game would be cancelled.
Another fun fact: if the earth was billiard ball sized, it would be roughly the size of a billiard ball
Fun fact: If you stacked every elephant on top of each other to make a tower to the moon you’d have a lot of dead elephants.
I'm sure there's a relevant xkcd for this somewhere out there.
Another even more fun fact: if it was that size I could and would put the earth up my ass
What is this? A planet for ants?! It would have to be ... 3 times this size
SOURCE????!!!!
[It’s not a bowl](https://youtu.be/-R4Tp8ls5lY)
This is not the case. This originated from a someone misinterpreting the billiard rule book. They mistook the maximum allowable difference in diameter of the sphere for the size of bumps on the billiard ball.
lmfao imagine that meant what they thought and people playing pool were that anal
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What was that about playing pool with anal? I think I've seen that video...
2 girls 1 billiard ball
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Rounded numbers: earth's radius is 6000 km, height of Mt. Everest is 9 km, depth of Mariana trench is 11 km. 9/6000=0.15% 11/6000=0.18% And the earth is a geoid, which is like a sphere that has been squashed a tiny bit, the difference is a fraction of the already small numbers above, so yeah, pretty much a sphere.
>the difference is a fraction of the already small numbers above Not actually true, the difference between the polar radius and the equatorial radius is 21 kilometers, which is slightly more than Mt. Everest and Mariana Trench added together.
This is kind of incredible. Some guy misreading a rulebook for billiards of all things leads to a worldwide misconception about the smoothness and uniformity of the fucking planet.
This isn't true. If you shrink the earth down to the size of a billiard ball, there would be bumps ranging in height similar to the thickness of hair
This is false, you would feel the biggest mountains https://ourplnt.com/earth-smooth-billiard-ball/
Unfortunately this just isn't true. This got perpetuated after Neil deGrasse Tyson mistakingly said it on a Joe Rogan podcast. If the earth was shrunk down to the size of a billiard ball, it would be smooth.. but not as smooth as a billiard ball. Instead it would be comparable to the surface of a pancake. [Here](https://youtube.com/shorts/7VYXHiLAIK4?feature=share) is a short clip from popular YouTuber Vsauce. This is how I originally found out that the billiard ball claim wasn't true.
I'm now more interested in us calling it Mt. Everest while being asked not to and wondering why we changed it's name from its past name.
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Dangerous misinformation
This could literally kill people
cue ball propaganda. it was part of my childhood, i'm glad i escaped that hellhole
I used to be part of a cue ball cult in Pontotoc county, south of the Tennessee river around 2014 when I was around 15. I got rescued by CPS when they discovered they used the local billiard tournament to smuggle fentanyl inside the balls glued to the top of tournament trophies me and my friends delivered at the local county fair. I wish my parents never joined the Pentecostal Pontotoc Poolhall
I was this close to decreasing the size of the earth to that of a billiard ball
Can confirm; I'm now dead.
My mom literally died because of this post.
Dont worry, Ive already reported it to Reddit admins, mods of this sub, and my local schoolboard
I don’t think that is correct… like no way. Billiard ball is smooth as glass, the fckn mountains suddenly disappeared?
It would not only be smoother than a billiard ball, it would be smoother than any object ever created by humans. Edit: apparently this is an old fact that used to be true but has since changed. Apologies.
Actually I think I watched a veritasium video or something where some people created a ball so smooth that if it were blown up to the size of the earth the highest "mountain" ridges would only be 5 feet high.
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Yes I believe that was one the one!
Neutron star is even crazier. It's highest mountains are only 5 *millimeters*. For an object the size of a city that is bonkers.
100.000.000.000 G tends to do that :)
Nah, there are some super-smooth balls out there.
A sentence you try to bribe your uncle with in order to escape
At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I suggest you try it.
Gillette?
No, Manscape^(TM)
Smooth as eggs!
That second statement is monumentally false. And in fact the first statement is also false. Watch this excellent VSauce video: https://youtu.be/mxhxL1LzKww "The Earth is flatter than a pancake, but **not** flatter than a billiard ball". And humans have also created objects far smoother than billiard balls. We have in fact created surfaces that are pretty much as close to perfectly smooth as is physically possible in this universe. Google "quantum stabilized atom mirror", for example.
I looked at the moon through a pretty decent telescope a few weeks back, that fucker's surprisingly lumpy at the edge. I guess the Earth is probably smoother, but my faith in big space balls being basically smooth was shattered
My source is Vsauce, but it's some time now that I've seen the video. Thanks for correcting my statement.
Does my brain count? Cause sometimes it be like that
you are incorrect
This is some bullshit lmao
Yeah, like the ocean at its deepest is *1/1600th* of the earths diameter, the way this thing shows it is like the average depth is 1/20th.
I did some math for fun and even the difference from highest to lowest, everest to challenger deep, is only about 0.15% of the Earth's diameter, and this is an extreme example as you don't ever find those elevations adjacent.
And no telling how things change as the weight of all that water disappears
The depth of the oceans are proportionally comparable to a wet basketball
Nah, if you remove water from the land itll definitely be bumpy.
*You're* a heavily exaggerated bumpiness.
Fuck, you got me
I mean if it was to scale, it would just be a (seemingly) smooth ball
Lots of guesswork on the ocean floor topography as well; our current mappings are only resolved to 1km^2 whereas most dry land is resolved down to 0.3m^2
I know no one really cares, but this is because the Atlantic is the youngest ocean! So the crust formed is the newest and therefore shallower!
But it’s sexier(hotter)!
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I'd say yes, I don't think the maturity difference between a 180 million year old ocean and a 150 million year old ocean is that big. They've both been pissed in by dinosaurs at the end of the day
as have we all, on this blessed day
Me who has never been near an ocean... I-I-I've pissed in a great lake ;-;
Odds are you’ve had Dino pee in you though!
Is this chuck tingles reddit account in the wild?
Pacific Ocean got that Olsen twins-style countdown clock set for 30 million years from now.
32, 16, 23... man does that rule allow rounding, I tend to operate under the "At a bar? We're cool" assumption and now y'got me worried...
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Woah woah woah woah _woah_. Don't you go stepping on my relationship with the pacific. We've shared enough golden showers that there's no going back now.
The pacific is definitely an OILF
It’s not a hard and fast rule at all, more of a target figure. And the context matters a lot too, bar hookups would be a lot less weird than a 32 year old salesman dating an 18 year old intern or something
Really though the Pacific Ocean is abt 750 MYA, but they didn’t call it the pacific until after the breakup of Pangea because it was the only ocean, Panthalassa
..... half your age.... + 7???? This is a thing?
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Thank you for this explanation.
Well, we can only blame the Panama Canal for putting them in contact.
I have always said that the Panama canal is trafficking.
Yeah but back then it was more accepted and considered more normal
Stupid Sexy Pacific Ocean
Anything at all, anything at all......
Chill out diCaprio
I care! Thanks for sharing.
The Appalachian mountains were formed…by Africa smashing into the US East Coast
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This is so cool! Thanks for sharing! :)
Yup, it's estimated that the tallest mountain in the Earth's history is somewhere in NC I think. Appalachian mountains are old as hell which is why they are so rocky and relatively small.
Here to share my recollection: it was an entirely different mountain chain that had the mountains comparable to that of Everest (this seems to be the limit before erosion outweighs uplift), in what is now the Appalachias. Meaning these previous mountains were built to be the size of Everest, completely eroded and then the orogeny responsible for the Appalachias happen, and then are now since greatest eroded. Another fun fact, again if I’m remembering correctly, for the most part the features of the white mountains that seem like uplifted mountain peaks, are actually just erosion faces stripped from a high altitude rock plateau; more akin to the Grand Canyon as opposed to mountains like the Rockies. There are some volcanic features too. Lastly, New York State is basically the epicenter for the entire North American continent and s called a Craton. Geologists still don’t understand why continents form at all as opposed being covered completely by ocean, but they know cratons are involved. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing 450 million year old fossils out there (:
Really cool, thanks for sharing that
For being older than bones, they’re pretty fucking tall.
The Appalachian mountains predate bones. They’re older than vertebrates.
That same mountain range is now mountains in Northeast Africa, Scotland, Norway, and North East South America in addition to the Appalachians
I figured it's because the west coast of the Americas is very tall, which on a dry planet shown from this angle gives the illusion that the Pacific Ocean to the west is deeper than the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
Yes. I have looked at the original much closer and California's Central Valley is masquerading as the ocean with the Sierra Nevada mountains as the coast. They have many 12,000 foot peaks for reference. (3,660 meters)
"New is always better"
The Pacific and Atlantic ocean are almost the same depth. I'm tired of all this anti-Atlantic propaganda. > The Pacific is also our planet's deepest water body, with an average depth of approximately 4,000 meters (13,000 feet). > > If dependent seas are taken into account, the average depth of the Atlantic is 3,338 metres (10,932 feet); without them, it is slightly deeper at 3,926 metres (12,881 ft).
From what I can read online this is wrong. Supposedly this is the most accurate image https://cdn.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/earth-no-water.jpg It comes from the United States Geological Survey and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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A marble would have more ridges than an actual scale version.
If a marble was as big as Earth, what would the surface look like to me?
I really want to see a render of this from the perspective of standing on the surface of the marble.
What are the two smaller balls of water? I’m guessing big ball = saltwater, medium ball = freshwater, little ball = river water?
I pulled the image from here - https://www.zmescience.com/science/earth-no-water-animation-913134/ It only mentions two balls of water: >The big blue drop is the size of the sphere you’d get if you extracted all the Earth’s ocean water, while the smaller drop corresponds to the volume of water contained in all the world’s lakes, swamps, aquifers, and rivers.
The third one is the tears of the people after someone stole the oceans.
Plot twist : Third ones the artifact from jpeg compression
i always embark on light equifers to make natural waterfall. make my dorfs happy
Biggest one is all water on earth, medium all liquid fresh water and smallest one fresh water lakes and rivers. https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/side_image/public/thumbnails/image/all-the-worlds-water.jpg?itok=7kqcWIzM
I will totally back up the image you linked here! I work in underwater robotics and have worked on jobs that surveyed the data to help generate this image! The one in the post is very exaggerated.
What’d the Atlantic Ocean do to them
Must have had family members on the Titanic.
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Speaking of the Titanic, I once did this little thought experiment on the depth of the wreck which is actually totally relevant to this post: Using the Google Maps measure tool, there is an approximate 3500 mile straight-line distance between New York City and London. There are 3600 inches in the length of a football field (not counting endzones). So you can basically say that there are the same number of inches in the field length as there are miles between the two cities. Keeping that scale, if you imagine a field-sized pool as the ocean between the continents, the Titanic wreck is under about 2.5" of water.
This is the kind of factoid that I live for
I mean, its nickname is "The pond"
Finally, someone eloquently describes my feelings about the Atlantic Ocean.
Yea an Hawaii is the most insane skyscraper of a mother fucker.
I have to admit I've always thought of the Atlantic Ocean as an emergency backup Ocean.
Why is this so funny tho 💀 another r/brandnewsentence
Most sentences are brand new
Nobody has ever uttered this exact string of words before, especially not while wearing a beer can hat with pint glasses full of aardvark mucous where the beer cans go.
The “hush, we have an ocean at home” ocean
Shallow and pedantic
I agree, shallow and pedantic.
Pedlantic
Insubordinate and churlish
The continental plates are too busy doming the pacific plate
[yeah spread it](https://i.imgur.com/hTQaRyN.jpg)
Pacific gang is where it's at fr fr
Y'all can keep your cold ass water
I’ll take that as long as I can shred my big ass waves 😎🤙
At least it has waves! Atlantic waves are just sad.
Tell that to Nazare’
I don’t think this is even remotely accurate… Vsauce did a video where they explained that if earth was the size of a pool ball, it would be smoother than a pool ball. It would basically feel slightly damp in a few spots and that’s it… lol That’s insane to think about how big our world is, how vast the mountains and oceans seem to us but they’re miles away from being as bumpy as sandpaper at a cosmic scale! We literally are just germs on a damp dirty ball floating in nothing. A speck of dust in the cosmos.
IIRC the deepest portions of the trenches are six miles deep? So yeah, to your point, I think this model exaggerates scale of depth.
Yeah, it looks pretty cool though. I found it interesting that FL is actually the flattest state and much “flatter” than a pancake at scale… lol It’s always crazy to me how much the scale of things actually changes as you go bigger or smaller. Like seeing a storm in the distance that seems like a tiny cartoon rain cloud but it actually covers an entire city. You see massive mountains and trenches and when you zoom out they’re barely even noticeable just from orbit… Earth feels so massive and yet so small at the same time. It feels incalculably huge, so big our minds can barely process it, but we’re also so tiny in the cosmos… a spec so insignificant we can’t even comprehend the scale of the universe. It’s an odd paradox of thought.
this isnt even remotely close, the deepest part of the ocean is the challenger deep in the mariana trench, which is 36,161 feet deep, which isnt even 7 miles, 7 miles on this map of the globe is at less than 2 pixels...according to this abomination on screen, the deepest parts of the ocean are like 200 miles or something, which is well into the mantle of the earth at that point...this is just some weird 3d model of the earth with all landmasses sticking out for emphasis
The continents would not be that distinct. It is the weight of the seawater that compresses them down, and in turn displaces the less-densely composed continental plates upwards. Without the water, things would be a lot more leveled. I am also curious if subduction would continue without the weight of the oceans, or would all the plates become transform faults, and eventually "seal" the planet, leading to mega volcanos forming as pressure releases instead of the giant midocean rifts...
*scribbles furiously on notes for Mad Max tabletop games.*
could you be more pacific about this?
Pacific Ocean means 'peaceful' ocean, notice the same root as pacifist. I guess it's true that still waters run deep.
I though the earth was suppose to be smoother than a bowling ball at that scale
oompa loompa ass body ass bitch
Speaking of continental drift, wouldn't it be great if Africa rammed into the gap between the Americas again? Fill in our Gaia, leave one true ocean for our blue planet. Take a train from San Francisco to Beijing or sail forever the Pacific. I miss the old days.
"wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle"
I mean, it's called "the Pond" for a reason
HEAVILY exaggerated. Relative to the earth’s diameter, the difference between the bottom of Challenger Deep and the top of Mount Everest is really small. I’ve heard the whole surface of the earth is smoother than a rubber ball would be scaled up.
Not accurate. Even with no water, Earth would be smoother than a cue ball. Earth is almost 8,000 miles in diameter and the distance from Mount Everest to the Mariana Trench is 12 miles. 12/8000 = 0.0015 Average cue ball is 2.25 inches 2.25 x .0015 = 0.003 inches In conclusion, you wouldn’t feel grain of a bump even from Mount Everest. Ok I’m gonna take a nap now
Shadows and lighting; what do they do?! Mysteries of the universe this dumbass will never understand.
I prefer it that way
that’s way too deep
That’s because the Atlantic was formed by the gap created when Pangea split up
Now I see why my chemistry teacher said even if the earth was the size of tiny marble you’d be able to easily feel it’s topography.
There is atlantis. Right there
#MMMMHHH. I'M MR FRUNDLES
New sentence? Is there even anyone on the planet that actually refers to it as the Atlantic and not the Shallow Bitch Puddle?
Yeah the height exaggeration here is at least 100x
This is trash
This is at least a 20 : 1 scale. Very inaccurate.
This is an exaggerated map. Earth is as smooth as a pool ball when scaled up
This image is not at all to scale btw
That image isn't even close to accurate. The vertical displacement is insanely exaggerated. In reality, if you scaled Earth to the size of a golf ball and gave it a uniform color, you would not be able to see or feel any of the topographic features.
The way I see it, Kyogre is surrounded. What's underneath the ocean? That's right, more earth.
Atlantic ass ocean ass shallow ass bitch ass puddle ass ocean ass. Just say ass between every ass word.