It's why it's called the North Pole

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Jackolantern@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y (3 replies)

But for just conversations sake. How huge is that pole in the globe if it was real?

Kevnyon@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y

I'm too stupid to figure out the scale between that pole and the earth, so I did this instead:

  • Let us say that we have a standard globe and it has been attached to its stand from the south and north poles, so that you can spin it around on the stand

  • Let us assume that the "pole" attached to the globe is 2cm in diameter and that the scale of the globe is 1:42M

  • With this, it would mean that a 2cm "pole" on a globe would in real life correspond to a pole that is 840 kilometers in diameter.

Needless to say, that pole would be fucking massive either way.

30isthenew29@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y

This is just insanely detailed if you can already see the three lines next to the car…

PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 3y

200 miles in diameter?