Spyke
lemmy.world

When it's at scale, they failed to rotate the globe and that irks me.

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moodyreply
lemmings.world

It rotates when I look at it. Once you manually move it, it stops rotating, but the rotate checkbox gets it moving again.

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TrickDacyreply
lemmy.world

I'm confused because originally it just appeared to be a short animated gif on the post and if there was a link to the site, I didn't see it. Currently the post has a missing image and a link to the site. Weird.

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moodyreply
lemmings.world

I have a bunch of issues seeing content from catbox.moe half tge time, so that might be it. The link in the post seems fine though.

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Same here, the link didn't have the globe, there was a blank box where it should have been.

Maybe we hugged it to death?

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lemmy.nz

I learned that the oxygen around the earth is about as thick as a coat of paint on a pool ball, relatively.

I'm not sure how accurate that is.

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Hagdosreply
lemmy.world

Space is about 100 km up, on a sphere that has a radius of 6000 km, so some 2% is air.

A pool ball has a radius of 30 mm roughly, so 2% of that is 0.6mm. Seems like a very thin coat of paint to me, but roughly correct.

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Not on the walls I've painted. I don't know about pool balls, but I'd imagine they need a solid layer of paint too, otherwise they'd flake in no time with the abuse they get.

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I was once told that if you scaled the earth and a glass marble to be the same size, the earth would have a much smoother surface.

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That wouldn't change the conclusion. Also, we probably don't have all the ocean floors mapped out.

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