RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
May 16, 2023 at 3:53 pm
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2023 at 4:27 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(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