Comment on Sea Level

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Damn, now I get why cartographers and the like always try to make it prettier in post!

  Never thought I’d be body shaming the Earth, but here we are 🤷

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  • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That is pretty severely exaggerated though to emphasize the form.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol, but the diff is actually x10000 or something, to make it more visible

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s just mean! 😉

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If the Earth was scaled down to the size of a billiard ball, it would be the smoothest billiard ball in existence.

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    • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ll take your word for it, because it would be awfully hard to compare it to other billiard balls after we’d asphyxiated from the atmosphere dissipating into space.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Except for Howie Mandel’s head, of course.

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• Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is not to scale. If it was you would see a perfect fucking sphere cause it’s that damn small of an image.

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• justlemmyin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Its the water that makes the world go around

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