geoid

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   by geoid 6y ago

   Fair. 'sucking' does work to describe the unloading. I guess the idea that the _speed_ of the erosion creates suction, is what bothered me.
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   by geoid 6y ago

   Maps are here: https://topex.ucsd.edu/grav_outreach/ Yes, water does follow the gravity. I'm not a climate person, and it's a complicated system, but as I understand it, new melt would be distributed evenly b
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   by geoid 6y ago

   Thanks. There's another meaning of geoid, which is the shape of mean sea level of the globe. The height of sea level varies according to the local strength of gravity. When they first put up satellites that could accurately map sea lev
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   by geoid 6y ago

   This is correct. The earth is ductile at long time periods, and mountains maintain isostatic equilibrium as the tops are eroded away. The article quote is absurd. Source: my earth science PhD.
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   by geoid 6y ago

   You could make use the pattern stem automatic variable in lines five and six to replace $(patsubst %.stdout,%.stderr,$@) with $*.stderr
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   by geoid 7y ago

   Maybe because our whole way of life and industrial food production is adapted to the current conditions?
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   by geoid 7y ago

   > I couldn't believe we were equidistant on either end of the 0 datum Longitude only affects the time of day, and thus daily temperature variations. Latitude is much more important, and determines climate and seasons. You are at vas
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   by geoid 8y ago

   Agree. Both parties should be able to see the other typing, or neither should. I feel deceived and foolish that I never knew about this. It's creepy like a one-way mirror.