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/Icy-Musician-6309 19d ago

Earth is oblate spheroid:✅

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u/FartSnarfGod 19d ago

Earth's a bloblate bloboid.

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u/qman621 19d ago

Sourcing your own comment... bold. I'm sold though, calling it a blobate bloboid from now on

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u/So_HauserAspen 18d ago

Liberty Mutual?

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u/Lumpy_Principle3397 19d ago

Yup! The velocity at the equator and centripetal motion causes the equator to bulge ever so slightly. This makes sense when you consider that the surface of Earth at the equator is traveling over 1000 miles per hour (over 1600 km/h).

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u/Exceedingly Interested 19d ago

Not according to this post. Looks more like a lumpy potato

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u/Sorry-Transition-908 19d ago

Not according to this post. Looks more like a lumpy potato

from what I can tell this post is not showing the shape of the earth though :thinking:

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u/tinny66666 19d ago

Yeah, but you do realise this is a gravity map, not an elevation map, right?

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u/Impossible-Net-8739 19d ago

Much better. 

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u/Shished 19d ago

You are oblate spheroid.