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Scientific American mostly ceased being scientific in the latter 90's, and should be more correctly named Political American.
by Etrnl_President 3y ago
Scientific American mostly ceased being scientific in the latter 90's, and should be more correctly named Political American.
- 2-718-281-828 3y agoi wouldn't mind this gibberish if the article would at least make clear afterwards what this is supposed to mean. but i can't find any explanation of the gravitational dynamics at play or even a description how exactly this is measured. 100m relative to what? i mean isn't sea level always 0m by definition? even on that "dip" sea level is 0m. so there is some assumed distance between sea surface and something else. an ideal circumference around the equator with the same volume (or technically area) of air under it as water over it? like an x-axis going through a sinus curve? one might argue that sth like that shouldn't show up on the hn front page. but maybe the meta message and discussion of the quality of sa journalism is worth the +31 points.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y ago> 100m relative to what? You quoted it yourself: "the sea level of the Indian Ocean over the hole is a whopping 106 meters lower than the global average" We already know that sea level isn't a uniform height. If it were tides wouldn't be a thing. The various ocean's waters are going to be at different levels. > i mean isn't sea level always 0m by definition? You could make the same argument for ground level but we know that's not uniform.
- misnome 3y ago... Finally, proof of flat-earth! Everywhere on land is 0cm above the land-level! Checkmate, scientists.
- Gravityloss 3y agothe literalist faction of the flat earth movement.
- Rapzid 3y agoThe Earth has a center of Gravity and they are using satellites to measure it so...
- emmelaich 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System