Edit: How earth's gravity field actually looks like.
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Manit0u
Poland17046 Posts
Edit: How earth's gravity field actually looks like. | ||
Deleuze
United Kingdom2102 Posts
Wow, where'd you get that? Interested in source. | ||
frogrubdown
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On December 24 2014 06:00 Deleuze wrote: Wow, where'd you get that? Interested in source. That's not what the earth looks like. It's a heavily exaggerated representation of the Geoid. The Geoid doesn't even attempt to model the shape of the actual surface of the earth, so this is misleading in two ways. Note that the bar on the right is in meters, and obviously that small a variation in meters would not produce such a lumpy shape on something as large as the earth. edit: More on this | ||
oBlade
Korea (South)4616 Posts
On December 24 2014 05:49 Manit0u wrote: How the earth really looks like. | ||
Manit0u
Poland17046 Posts
On December 24 2014 06:30 frogrubdown wrote: That's not what the earth looks like. It's a heavily exaggerated representation of the Geoid. The Geoid doesn't even attempt to model the shape of the actual surface of the earth, so this is misleading in two ways. Note that the bar on the right is in meters, and obviously that small a variation in meters would not produce such a lumpy shape on something as large as the earth. edit: More on this For once I'm actually happy that I was wrong and someone has corrected me, providing a great source at that. Thanks! | ||
Manit0u
Poland17046 Posts
Did you mean this? Space debris around the globe. | ||
DannyJ
United States5110 Posts
On December 24 2014 09:45 Manit0u wrote: For once I'm actually happy that I was wrong and someone has corrected me, providing a great source at that. Thanks! Wait, did you really think the Earth looked like a raisinette... Anywho, NASAs newest picture of the Sun, with X-rays streaming off of it. | ||
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England1711 Posts
On December 24 2014 10:22 DannyJ wrote: Anywho, NASAs newest picture of the Sun, with X-rays streaming off of it. I was so impressed with that picture when I first saw it the other day, that it's now my new desktop wallpaper. | ||
Manit0u
Poland17046 Posts
On December 24 2014 10:22 DannyJ wrote: Wait, did you really think the Earth looked like a raisinette... Well, depicting all planets as perfect spheres is kind of boring And an obligatory pic: | ||
{CC}StealthBlue
United States41096 Posts
Norwich City Council's computer gets delivered, 1957. Burning of Beatles records in Georgia, 1966. | ||
fruity.
England1711 Posts
On December 25 2014 03:45 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Norwich City Council's computer gets delivered, 1957. I have a similar picture to share! Here's a 1Gb hard drive from 1981 - weighing in at an unsubstantial 34kg (75lbs) and would of set you back the wrong side of $80,000 | ||
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An English girl comforts her doll in the rubble of her bomb-damaged home in 1940. + Show Spoiler + French 'Canopus' nuclear weapons test at Fangataufa atoll, 1968. + Show Spoiler + A British sentry standing at his post. France. March 20th, 1915. | ||
{CC}StealthBlue
United States41096 Posts
Dione taken by the Cassani spacecraft while orbiting Saturn. US soldiers approach buildings containing German soldiers (Sassomolare - Italy - 1945). Defense attorney Clarence Darrow's 12-hour-long plea argues for life sentences for Richard Loeb, 18, and Nathan Leopold Jr., 19, on trial for the murder of 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks. Darrow was successful in avoiding the death penalty by pleading both guilty, Chicago, 1924. | ||
stapla05
Australia64 Posts
On December 30 2014 10:27 Jan1997 wrote: TV show lost maybe! | ||
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