Matt WillemsenEarth Is a Potato
Gravitationally speaking
Earth, in fact, is an ellipsoid, a little bit squashed at the poles and fat around the equator, not to mention speckled with mountain ranges. And then you have the geoid people—the ones who think of Earth less as an imperfect sphere and more as a lumpy potato.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/07/earth-shape-geoid-gravitational-influence/674664/?utm_source=feed #earth #potato #gravitationally #sphere #ellipsoid #geoid #LumpyPotatoid
Gravitationally speaking
Earth, in fact, is an ellipsoid, a little bit squashed at the poles and fat around the equator, not to mention speckled with mountain ranges. And then you have the geoid people—the ones who think of Earth less as an imperfect sphere and more as a lumpy potato.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/07/earth-shape-geoid-gravitational-influence/674664/?utm_source=feed #earth #potato #gravitationally #sphere #ellipsoid #geoid #LumpyPotatoid
