Comment on Checkmate round-earthers

halvo317@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• odium@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I did some quick math and I found that it’s at least 120 inches.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That seems high.

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  • halvo317@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Interesting if true

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    • odium@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Here’s my methodology. I took my tape measure and laid it flat on the ground in a straight line. My tape measure only goes till 120 inches and it didn’t go around the world. So I concluded that the Earth must be longer than that.

      Lmk if you spot any errors in my calculations.

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• saigot@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  it’s 40000km If you do the math it works out that the drop is about 6nanometers per foot

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  • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So we are always walking downhill. Nice.

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    • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Only if you’re walking east.

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      • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And Weast

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