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From your link, the lower elevation of a dry prominence of Everest would be the lowest contour that encircles Everest. That won't be nearly as deep as Challenge
by njarboe 8y ago
From your link, the lower elevation of a dry prominence of Everest would be the lowest contour that encircles Everest. That won't be nearly as deep as Challenger Deep but a quick google search does not find the correct dry prominence for me.
- vesinisa 8y agoThe lowest bottom of the Challenger Deep encircles the Everest. Think of the "outside" of the circle being the deepest point, and the "inside" of the circle being all rest of the Earth.
- njarboe 8y agoGot me on that one. Seems to me "topographic prominence" is useful for people talking about peaks in a mountain range. Not so much when the spherical shape of the Earth starts to be significant.
- SilasX 8y agoReminds me of the joke where the mathematician is told to use a fixed length of fencing to enclose the biggest area possible and builds a tiny corral and stands inside and says "I define myself as outside the corral". (Legit point on your part, though.)
- starbeast 8y agoIn Douglas Adams''So Long And Thanks For All The Fish', Wonko the Sane resided either outside or inside, depending on your point of view, an inside-out house that he had built as an asylum for the world, after reading the instructions on a packet of toothpicks.
- hannasanarion 8y agoThe correct dry prominence of everest is the same as the regular prominence of everest, because there are no bodies of water between it and the nearest peaks.
- dasil003 8y agoIncorrect. There are no higher peaks than everest, so it's prominence is the same as its summit. Dry prominence would be measured from sea level, wet prominence would be based on the lowest point in the ocean floor.