Chad Pacific

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• mvirts@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol this heightmap is so exaggerated

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  • DeusHircus@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol wildly exaggerated. Largest height difference on Earth’s surface is 13 miles (including underwater) vs. the 8,000 mile diameter. To quote NDGT, “The Earth is smoother than a cue ball”

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  • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If it wasn’t, there will be no atlantic (or even pacific) for us to see

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  • zaphod@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Might just be the angle of the light.

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• maeries@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s not to scale, right?

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s the Instagram filter.

    ourplnt.com/earth-without-water/

    Reality be like:

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    • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “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.

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• umbraroze@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You VS. the ocean she told you not to worry about.

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• Hupf@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Atlantic was surveyed in imperial units, Pacific in metric.

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• jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Very smooth surface.

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Smooth as a shark, as they say

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• plistig@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “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

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  • nixcamic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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• Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Paddling pool vs. diving zone.

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