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jeena, in Chad Pacific
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Very smooth surface.

rockerface,

Smooth as a shark, as they say

Dasnap, in Chad Pacific
@Dasnap@lemmy.world avatar

Paddling pool vs. diving zone.

maeries, in Chad Pacific

That’s not to scale, right?

fossilesque, (edited )
@fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar

It’s the Instagram filter.

ourplnt.com/earth-without-water/

The original is a exaggerated estimate (projection) based on a assumed sphere, probably WGS84, because a lot of the global satellite data is formatted as such.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections?wpr…

Eheran,

“reality” as in extremely exaggerated deviations from the ellipsoid. Otherwise it would just look like a smooth sphere. Earth has 12’700 km diameter. From the shallowest point to mount everest are just about 20 km. That is a 0.15 % change. You would see nothing.

MoonManKipper,

Bang on, the Pacific is not 250 miles deep…

kn0wmad1c,
@kn0wmad1c@programming.dev avatar

To put in perspective how shallow a 0.15% change is, a dimple on a golf ball is roughly 4 times deeper than that (0.60% of a difference in depth).

Zoboomafoo,
@Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world avatar

“Smoother and rounder than a bowling ball” is my usual comparison

Eheran,

I think that would be too much. A bowling ball is really smooth. It would not roll as well with such deviations all over the place.

At a diameter of 22 cm, the roughness would have to be in the order of 0.3 mm, which would not just be visible due to the distorted reflections, it would even be audible while rolling.

aeronmelon, in What a beauty.

“Why miss, you’re absolutely glowing today!”

Dimand, in All is fair in love and war. (See body for part 2)

DOIs or GTFO

plistig, in Chad Pacific

“Draining Earth’s oceans, revealing the two-thirds of Earth’s surface we don’t get to see”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uOwv_Krqk8

nixcamic,

In this you can see they’re about the same depth.

jmcs,

At a global scale, the Mariana Trench and the Everest are the same depth. It’s less than 20 Km of difference against a mean diameter of 12742 Km.

DeepGradientAscent,
@DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev avatar

The Earth is smoother than a cue ball.

FiniteLooper, in The screams, the terrible screams

Imagine the giant eyeball they are now seeing. I’d be screaming too

Candelestine, in What a beauty.

Safety regulations are all written in someone’s blood.

aeronmelon,

I heard a more snarky version:

“For every safety feature there’s a corpse with an interesting story.”

FreshLight, in What a beauty.

I like the cut version better. What do you guys think?

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/faea367d-cdc5-4f15-94a9-e1d74080c085.jpeg

glorious_albus, (edited )

Yep the bottom half absolutely adds nothing to the joke.

Tier1BuildABear,
@Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world avatar

It might as well be a reaction video with a side by side of people who “get the joke” and people who don’t. Like, I don’t need a reaction of the person that doesn’t get the joke lmao

Pregnenolone,

!comedyamputation

umbraroze, in Chad Pacific
@umbraroze@kbin.social avatar

In Finnish language we already have the kinda rare expression "rapakon takana" ("behind the mud puddle") about stuff that's happening in America.

ASeriesOfPoorChoices,

Both the UK and the USA refer to it as “the pond”. As in “across the pond”.

imaqtpie, in Chad Pacific
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

Isn’t the Atlantic Ocean going to become larger than the Pacific in a relatively short geologic time scale? I ask because this is mander.xyz and I’m lazy, and also because I’m aware of the Mid-Atlantic ridge seafloor spreading and the fact that the Americas used to be attached to Europe and Africa. Meanwhile the Pacific plate is subducting under various continental plates.

Keep bullying the Atlantic and see what happens in 100 million years when it’s bigger than you 🫣

Nacktmull, in What a beauty.

Fun fact: Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie was of polish origin.

polskilumalo,
@polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Nice to see me not being the one to post it.

Nacktmull,

Too many people still think she was french, let´s change that.

Hupf, in Chad Pacific

Atlantic was surveyed in imperial units, Pacific in metric.

oodarthvader, in The screams, the terrible screams

I definitely thought it looked like a microscopic cat walked all over the sample.

Speculater, in What a beauty.
@Speculater@lemmy.world avatar

Fun fact, while she died of radiation poisoning, Pierre was killed when ran over by a wagon carrying military uniforms.

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