A Picture Says 1,000 Words - Page 107

On December 24 2014 05:49 Manit0u wrote:
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How the earth really looks like.

On December 24 2014 06:00 Deleuze wrote:


Wow, where'd you get that? Interested in source.

On December 24 2014 05:49 Manit0u wrote:


How the earth really looks like.

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

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!

On December 24 2014 10:22 DannyJ wrote:
Anywho, NASAs newest picture of the Sun, with X-rays streaming off of it.

On December 24 2014 10:22 DannyJ wrote:
Wait, did you really think the Earth looked like a raisinette...

Norwich City Council's computer gets delivered, 1957.

Burning of Beatles records in Georgia, 1966.

On December 25 2014 03:45 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Norwich City Council's computer gets delivered, 1957.

An English girl comforts her doll in the rubble of her bomb-damaged home in 1940.

French 'Canopus' nuclear weapons test at Fangataufa atoll, 1968.

A British sentry standing at his post. France. March 20th, 1915.

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.