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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (7 children)

That's not to scale, right?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

It's the Instagram filter.

https://ourplnt.com/earth-without-water/

The original is a exaggerated estimate (projection) based on a assumed sphere, probably WGS84, because a lot of the global satellite data is formatted as such.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections?wprov=sfla1

[–] Eheran 87 points 1 year ago (5 children)

"reality" as in extremely exaggerated deviations from the ellipsoid. Otherwise it would just look like a smooth sphere. Earth has 12'700 km diameter. From the shallowest point to mount everest are just about 20 km. That is a 0.15 % change. You would see nothing.

[–] MoonManKipper 17 points 1 year ago

Bang on, the Pacific is not 250 miles deep…

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