(May 16, 2023 at 9:09 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: The summit of the Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador is the point on the surface of the earth furthest from the center of the earth.   It is over 7000 feet further from the center of the earth than the summit of Mt. Everest.

..which is a result of us living on an ROTATIONAL spheroid.

(May 16, 2023 at 10:20 am)Deesse23 Wrote:

(May 16, 2023 at 9:09 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: The summit of the Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador is the point on the surface of the earth furthest from the center of the earth.   It is over 7000 feet further from the center of the earth than the summit of Mt. Everest.

..which is a result of us living on an ROTATIONAL spheroid.

For the exact same reason,  the point on the solid surface of the earth closest to the center of the earth is not the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean not far from the equator, which is deepest part of the ocean floor, but the Litke deep in the Arctic Ocean not far from the North Pole, even though Challenger Deep is 20,000 feet deeper than Litke Deep.

Also for the exact same reason, if you weigh yourself at the summit of mt Cayambe in Equator,   You will find you weigh 1% less than if you weighed yourself on the sea ice in the Arctic

The Chinese city of Xinghua is farther from the Argentine city of Rosario than any other city can be from another on earth.

They are merely 18 miles away from being exactly antipodal to each other.

if plato’s atlantis was as he discribed it, then its subsidence to the current depth of the atlantic ocean floor will remove 3 million cubic miles of rock from the volume of the ocean basin. Closing in and filling that volume will cause the global see level to drop 150 feet, largely offsetting the rise in sea level caused by the filling of the the ocean basins with glacial melt water at the end of the last ice age.

(May 16, 2023 at 3:53 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:

(May 16, 2023 at 10:20 am)Deesse23 Wrote: ..which is a result of us living on an ROTATIONAL spheroid.

For the exact same reason,  the point on the solid surface of the earth closest to the center of the earth is not the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean not far from the equator, which is deepest part of the ocean floor, but the Litke deep in the Arctic Ocean not far from the North Pole, even though Challenger Deep is 20,000 feet deeper than Litke Deep.

Also for the exact same reason, if you weigh yourself at the summit of mt Cayambe in Equator,   You will find you weigh 1% less than if you weighed yourself on the sea ice in the Arctic

As i am currently tryin gto lose some weight, thanks for the tip.
Yeah, unfortunately the truth is: I am trying to lose some MASS   and that cant be fixed by traveling

7 in 10 Women Who Have Had an Abortion Identify as a Christian (according to a Christian research group)

Quote:Seven in 10 women who have had an abortion identify as a Christian, according to a 2015 Lifeway Research study sponsored by Care Net, a nonprofit organization supporting pregnancy centers across North America.

The 70% of women who’ve had abortions that self-identify as a Christian includes Catholics (27%), Protestants (26%), non-denominational (15%), and Orthodox (2%).

Among Protestants, more identify as Baptists (33%), Methodist (11%), Presbyterian (10%), or Lutheran (9%).

Far fewer women who’ve had abortion identify as agnostic (8%), atheist (4%), Jewish (3%), Muslim (2%), Hindu (1%), Buddhist (1%), Latter Day Saint or Mormon (1%), or Jehovah’s Witness (1%). Another 3% say “other,” and 7% say they have no religious preference.

Not only do most women who get an abortion identify as Christian, many attend church at least occasionally, and some are attending now.

For half of those regular churchgoers (52%), they still haven’t told anyone at their church about their abortion. Less than 2 in 5 (38%) say someone at their church knows they had an abortion.

Two in 3 women who’ve had an abortion say church members judge single women who are pregnant (65%) and are more likely to gossip about a woman considering abortion than help her understand her options (64%).

https://research.lifeway.com/2021/12/03/...christian/

The relationship between small scale design drawings, plans or models on the one hand, and large finished product on the other, seems totally intuitive. But behavioral researchers believe it is anything but intuitive, and required a leap in cognitive ability that occurred relatively recently in human history to grasp.

Rocks are such good heat insulators that when geologists drilled into a solidified lava that had ponded behind a natural barrier after an eruption in 1928, a mere 20 feet down the drill big encountered lava that was still molten after 90 years.

Lake Baikal is the oldest, deepest, and the most voluminous lake on earth. But it is a pale shadow of its own former superlatives. At one time lake Baikal was probably close to 30000 feet deep, nearly as deep as the deepest part of ocean floor.. but over its 30 million years around 25000 feet of sediments accumulated in the lake basin, leaving the lake “only” 6000 feet deep.

Reading John Hodgman’s Vacationland, I discovered something that makes Alice’s Restaurant make a lot more sense:





If you ever wondered why Alice and Ray decided it would be a good idea to just devote an entire floor of their home to garbage storage and not just take it out like normal people, well, if you thought it was just out of some spite to the for,er church they lived in, you’d be wrong.

Apparently, in Western Massachusetts, there is no organized trash pickup like in most normal places. You had to take the trash to your local dump. And judging from the way Hodgman describes it, there may or may not have been some weirdly Byzantine laws about which dump you had to throw your trash into.

The specific example he gives is that his father made him toss the garbage into a neighboring town’s dump because it was closer than the actual town dump. However, this was apparently illegal, but if he claimed he was staying with a family friend in that town, it was okay. Except once he finally has a chance to give this convoluted alibi, he’s told it actually is okay after all.

Neither I nor Hodgman know whether the law was always like that, or if it changed sometime in the interim 30+ years (or worse, that it was one of those laws that was still on the books, but was never enforced,) but I can only assume that if they had laws against one town’s garbage going into another town’s dump, it only stands to reason that Officer Obie didn’t take kindly to Arlo just dumping it off a cliff.

Then again, he apparently spent “a very disagreeable two hours” looking for any sign of the culprits, so I guess he didn’t have much to do on Thanksgiving Weekend 1965.