LJFH Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 The earth is round!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headymamamyrna Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 Oh I love good gossip and couldn't wait to open this!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokonon Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 You are *so* out of the loop, that's old news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headymamamyrna Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 You are so funny!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traveler Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 More oblong is'nt it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 More oblong is'nt it?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth#ShapeThe Earth's shape is very close to an oblate spheroid—a rounded shape with a bulge around the equator—although the precise shape (the geoid) varies from this by up to 100 meters. The average diameter of the reference spheroid is about 12,742 km. More approximately the distance is 40,000 km/π because the meter was originally defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the north pole through Paris, France.The rotation of the Earth creates the equatorial bulge so that the equatorial diameter is 43 km larger than the pole to pole diameter. The largest local deviations in the rocky surface of the Earth are Mount Everest (8,848 m above local sea level) and the Mariana Trench (10,911 m below local sea level). Hence compared to a perfect ellipsoid, the Earth has a tolerance of about one part in about 584, or 0.17%, which is less than the 0.22% tolerance allowed in billiard balls. Because of the bulge, the feature farthest from the center of the Earth is actually Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador.Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJFH Posted January 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 Damn gossip, it's never correct.;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 "Spheroidal with several indentations" is short and sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishtaper Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 Whatchu talkin 'bout Barbara? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 The earth is round!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;-) I'm really sick of these fucking lies. Stop spreading this kind of shit about the Earth around...it'll come back and kick you in the ass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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