Last night, I had the Earth in palm of my hand, you know, like the Earth was small enough, or I was big enough, just holding it looking at it. Today, I wonder what it felt like. Do mountains rise far enough above the average surface height to be felt, if that was the scale?
I consult the Wiki.
The largest local deviations in the rocky surface of the Earth are Mount Everest (8,850 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%. For perspective, this is less than the 0.22% tolerance allowed in pool balls. Due to the bulge, the feature farthest from the center of the Earth is actually Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador. The mass of the Earth is approximately 5,980 yottagrams.
Was thrown by yottagrams for a moment. Yotta whatta?
So it’s more spherical than a pool ball, but would I be able to feel the mountains?
From Gunther:
“Forget ellipsoids… You my friend want to pop up north for proper country carvery, where plates aren’t round, theyre oval. They have beef, ham, liver, pork, liver, bacon, liver… OhAho – that’s what I’m talking abooot!”
‘ow dur you!
Zoot alors, I’m french again.