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Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

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

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

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Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago
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https://perthirtysix.com/tool/earth-smoothness

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    When it’s at scale, they failed to rotate the globe and that irks me.

    • moody@lemmings.world
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      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
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        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.world
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          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.

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

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    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.

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      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.works
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        A coat of paint is like 0.045mm thick

        • Droechai@lemm.ee
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          “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

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          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.

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      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.

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    Not take away the water!

    • oni@lemmy.ml
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      That wouldn’t change the conclusion. Also, we probably don’t have all the ocean floors mapped out.

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    i really love these relief maps.

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