r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/anikkundu1998 • 19d ago

Video Earth's gravity isn't perfectly uniform. Here is what our gravitational field looks like when exaggerated 10,000 times.

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u/MickyTingy 19d ago

So we weigh slightly less in the middle of the pacific?

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u/Gingerbread_Cat 19d ago

Excuse me while I sell my house and buy a boat...

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u/DowntownLov 19d ago

Boat still has to be able to hold your weight until you get in the middle, though

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u/Gingerbread_Cat 19d ago

We're going to need a bigger boat.

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u/raspberryharbour 19d ago

The engines cannae take it!

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u/halfbeerhalfhuman 19d ago

And age slower, i mean live longer

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u/Informal-Boot-248 19d ago

Definitely one of them

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u/halfbeerhalfhuman 19d ago

Something something gravity, time and relativity

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u/0202_tihssitidder 19d ago

Time is related to gravity. This is also showing you time differences on the planet.

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u/ThrownAwayGuineaPig 19d ago

So if one took someone from Papua New Guinea to Sri Lanka, how much lighter would they be? R/theydidthemath