How Smooth Is The Earth, Really? Explore Elevation With An Interactive 3D Globe

https://perthirtysix.com/tool/earth-smoothness

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TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 2y (5 replies)

When it's at scale, they failed to rotate the globe and that irks me.

moody@lemmings.world · 0 pts · 2y (4 replies)

It rotates when I look at it. Once you manually move it, it stops rotating, but the rotate checkbox gets it moving again.

TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I'm confused because originally it just appeared to be a short animated gif on the post and if there was a link to the site, I didn't see it. Currently the post has a missing image and a link to the site. Weird.

Blaze@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y

The link in the post was there from the very beginning, you probably just didn't see it

moody@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I have a bunch of issues seeing content from catbox.moe half tge time, so that might be it. The link in the post seems fine though.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Same here, the link didn't have the globe, there was a blank box where it should have been.

Maybe we hugged it to death?

Contentedness@lemmy.nz · 14 pts · 2y (5 replies)

I learned that the oxygen around the earth is about as thick as a coat of paint on a pool ball, relatively.

I'm not sure how accurate that is.

Hagdos@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Space is about 100 km up, on a sphere that has a radius of 6000 km, so some 2% is air.

A pool ball has a radius of 30 mm roughly, so 2% of that is 0.6mm. Seems like a very thin coat of paint to me, but roughly correct.

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

A coat of paint is like 0.045mm thick

Droechai@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Hagdos@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Not on the walls I've painted. I don't know about pool balls, but I'd imagine they need a solid layer of paint too, otherwise they'd flake in no time with the abuse they get.

yuri@pawb.social · 5 pts · 2y

I was once told that if you scaled the earth and a glass marble to be the same size, the earth would have a much smoother surface.

figjam@midwest.social · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Not take away the water!

oni@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

That wouldn't change the conclusion. Also, we probably don't have all the ocean floors mapped out.

jet@hackertalks.com · 7 pts · 2y

i really love these relief maps.