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Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyzbyBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz
2 years

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

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

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      2 years

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

        • moody@lemmings.worldEnglish
          2 years

          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
              2 years

              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.

                • moody@lemmings.worldEnglish
                  2 years

                  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.

                    • Optional@lemmy.world
                      2 years

                      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?

                    • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                      2 years

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

                • Contentedness@lemmy.nzEnglish
                  2 years

                  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
                      2 years

                      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.

                        • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                          2 years

                          A coat of paint is like 0.045mm thick

                            • Droechai@lemm.eeEnglish
                              2 years

                              “One thin layer”

                              https://i.ytimg.com/vi/m3p_VuPIS2c/hqdefault.jpg

                              https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Ftptwat5hxsj71.jpg

                              • Hagdos@lemmy.world
                                2 years

                                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
                              2 years

                              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.socialEnglish
                              2 years

                              Not take away the water!

                                • oni@lemmy.mlEnglish
                                  2 years

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

                                • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
                                  2 years

                                  i really love these relief maps.

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