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Gravity satellite yields 'Potato Earth' view

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  • #2
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Who else looked at the pic and went "Hey you guyyyyyyyyyyyyyys"?


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
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    Gravity satellite yields 'Potato Earth' view
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12911806

    It looks like a giant potato in space.
    And yet, the information in this model is the sharpest view we have of how gravity varies across the Earth.
    The globe has been released by the team working on Europe's Goce satellite.
    It is a highly exaggerated rendering, but it neatly illustrates how the tug we feel from the mass of rock under our feet is not the same in every location.
    Gravity is strongest in yellow areas; it is weakest in blue ones.

    Sri Lanka has less gravity than Ireland, so you'll weigh* less.

    *Pendant alert! Mass remains the same (at 8PM :P)


  • #4
    Overheal
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    This goes a long way to explaining how african-americans can jump so high.


  • #5
    Duggy747
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    Just looks like a teenage Earth with a vicious case of acne.


  • #6
    squod
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    Going to South-America will make me stronger. Nice one OP


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  • #7
    Saila
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    first the earth was flat, then we said round, and now you're telling me its a potato! wtf!


  • #8
    fakearms123
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    Must think of funny pun! :(

    EDIT: I got nothin!


  • #9
    CreepingDeath
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    Time for Sri Lanka to build a space port, as it would take less energy to launch satelites into orbit from there.


  • #10
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    :rubs temples:

    I see a merge in your future


  • #11
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    mmmmerrggge.


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  • #12
    Einhard
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    *Pendant alert! Mass remains the same (at 8PM :P)

    Does the mass change if you take off the pendant?!;)


  • #13
    Einhard
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    Overheal wrote: »
    This goes a long way to explaining how african-americans can jump so high.

    And why white men can't jump.

    'cept for Woody Harrelson of course.


  • #14
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Overheal wrote: »
    This goes a long way to explaining how african-americans can jump so high.

    Einhard wrote: »
    And why white men can't jump.

    'cept for Woody Harrelson of course.

    its the other way round guys, gravity is weaker where they are and stronger in europe where they mostly compete ;)


  • #15
    Overheal
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    Saila wrote: »
    its the other way round guys, gravity is weaker where they are and stronger in europe where they mostly compete ;)
    I didn't know the NBA was in Belgium...


  • #16
    Cupcake_Crisis
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    I've never seen a blue potato...


  • #17
    TPD
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    Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »
    I've never seen a blue potato...

    Not even a blue waffle?
    :P


  • #18
    ScumLord
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    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    Time for Sri Lanka to build a space port, as it would take less energy to launch satelites into orbit from there.
    And we could build a landing pad for.. em. asteroids I guess. :(

    I wonder why it's so strong here and on the Australian side. Maybe Irish people are much more dense than we thought.


  • #19
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »
    I've never seen a blue potato...

    put one under your bed for the summer and look at it in September.. tadah!


  • #20
    CrazyRabbit
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    fakearms123 wrote: »
    Must think of funny pun! :(

    EDIT: I got nothin!

    Yeah me neither. We must have spuds for brains.


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