Quick and easy demonstration of the shape of the Earth

[Whitebeard]

Just stumbled on this vid showing away to prove the oblate spheroid nature of the Earth using hi-rez images from the Himawari 8 satalite.

 

[Clouds Givemethewillies]

Just stumbled on this vid showing away to prove the oblate spheroid nature of the Earth using hi-rez images from the Himawari 8 satalite.

But will you be able to see the sea level _drop_ in the UK when Greenland melts?

 

[Whitebeard]

But will you be able to see the sea level _drop_ in the UK when Greenland melts?

As Greenland is mainly rock, if that melts sea levels will be the least of anyones problems!

 

[Clouds Givemethewillies]

As Greenland is mainly rock, if that melts sea levels will be the least of anyones problems!

Like it! I was thinking of the ice on top..

 

[Whitebeard]

Like it! I was thinking of the ice on top..

I know, but it was such a good delivery it was crying out for a cover drive over mid wicket.
(Thats cricket talk for all you in the US)

 

[Clouds Givemethewillies]

I know, but it was such a good delivery it was crying out for a cover drive over mid wicket.
(Thats cricket talk for all you in the US)

I wuss wrong. I thought the UK was closer..
Off topic, but I like counterintuitive.

If Greenland’s ice sheet melted entirely, sea level would fall 20 to 50 meters at the adjacent coast. That’s counterintuitive, but the ice sheets are so massive (Greenland’s ice, one-tenth the size of the Antarctic ice sheets, weighs on the order of 3,000 trillion tons) that two immediate effects come into play. First, all that ice exerts gravitational pull on the surrounding ocean. When an ice sheet melts, that gravitational influence diminishes, and water moves away from the ice sheet, causing sea levels to drop as far as 2,000 kilometers away.

Content from external source

https://harvardmagazine.com/2016/09/the-plastic-earth

 

[DasKleineTeilchen]

If Greenland’s ice sheet melted entirely, sea level would fall 20 to 50 meters at the adjacent coast. That’s counterintuitive, but the ice sheets are so massive

wow. I had no idea. thank you.

 

[DasKleineTeilchen]

Just stumbled on this vid showing away to prove the oblate spheroid nature of the Earth using hi-rez images from the Himawari 8 satalite

cool. too bad that "true" FEer wont be impressed or even convinced by that, cause manmade "satellites" do not exist.