nebula Posted June 21, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.76 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.95 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Earth is shaped like a lumpy potato 15:08 05 April 2011 by Ferris Jabr A sleek satellite orbiting Earth has confirmed that the planet is not the simple squashed sphere we often imagine it to be. It is, in fact, more like a lumpy potato. Nearly a year's worth of gravitational measurements from the European Space Agency's Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) have yielded a colourful map portraying the geoid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted June 21, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.76 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.95 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Author Share Posted June 21, 2011 Of course, what I would like to see is an analysis on how much "rising sea levels" is ice melt vs. sinking of the North American side of the globe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jodetoad Posted June 21, 2011 Group: Junior Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 86 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 4 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/14/2011 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/06/1953 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Video unavailable. Have to go look later. But the image looks a bit like areas with most recent volcanism have highest gravity or mass, which makes sense in that the content of metallic and heavy elements would be much higher. As for oceans rising, read somewhere lately a figure of 2mm, I think per year. That could almost be accounted for by sediment. Never see sediment discussed as part of the equations, but in my house I get 2mm of dust in a week! So besides dust, add in rocks, sand & soil, tree stumps and so forth, it's surprising the oceans don't rise a lot more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winsomebulldog Posted June 21, 2011 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 20 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 732 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 113 Days Won: 5 Joined: 03/26/2010 Status: Offline Birthday: 04/30/1971 Share Posted June 21, 2011 I'm not sure about the lumpy potato comparison. I'm thinking more like a piece of shriveled up fruit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winsomebulldog Posted June 21, 2011 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 20 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 732 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 113 Days Won: 5 Joined: 03/26/2010 Status: Offline Birthday: 04/30/1971 Share Posted June 21, 2011 My tired brain can't seem to grasp how the whole "The new geoid map will be useful for studying ocean circulation, ice dynamics, sea-level change and earthquakes," bit of it works. Maybe I'll come back and read it again later, after a nap. Or some caffeine. Or both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xequedox Posted June 21, 2011 Group: Junior Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 0 Topics Per Day: 0 Content Count: 65 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 13 Days Won: 1 Joined: 11/28/2010 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/24/1993 Share Posted June 21, 2011 LOL Potatos really are the meaning of life Go figure~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayin jade Posted June 21, 2011 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.88 Content Count: 43,795 Content Per Day: 6.21 Reputation: 11,243 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted June 21, 2011 Earth is shaped like a lumpy potato What a coincidence! So am I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fez Posted June 21, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 683 Topics Per Day: 0.12 Content Count: 11,128 Content Per Day: 2.00 Reputation: 1,352 Days Won: 54 Joined: 02/03/2009 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/07/1952 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Earth is shaped like a lumpy potato And one day God is going to mash it....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Earth is shaped like a lumpy potato And one day God is going to mash it....... When He does, will there be gravy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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