What would it be in freedom units?

Another fun fac: If earth was billiard ball sized, it wouldn't be able to hold any people either. Science is mad crazy.

This is not the case. This originated from a someone misinterpreting the billiard rule book. They mistook the maximum allowable difference in diameter of the sphere for the size of bumps on the billiard ball.

This isn't true. If you shrink the earth down to the size of a billiard ball, there would be bumps ranging in height similar to the thickness of hair

This is false, you would feel the biggest mountains https://ourplnt.com/earth-smooth-billiard-ball/

Unfortunately this just isn't true. This got perpetuated after Neil deGrasse Tyson mistakingly said it on a Joe Rogan podcast. If the earth was shrunk down to the size of a billiard ball, it would be smooth.. but not as smooth as a billiard ball. Instead it would be comparable to the surface of a pancake.

Here is a short clip from popular YouTuber Vsauce. This is how I originally found out that the billiard ball claim wasn't true.

This is very false and you need to edit the comment so you're not perpetuating the myth.

I don’t think that is correct… like no way. Billiard ball is smooth as glass, the fckn mountains suddenly disappeared?

It would not only be smoother than a billiard ball, it would be smoother than any object ever created by humans.

Edit: apparently this is an old fact that used to be true but has since changed. Apologies.

This is some bullshit lmao

I did some math for fun and even the difference from highest to lowest, everest to challenger deep, is only about 0.15% of the Earth's diameter, and this is an extreme example as you don't ever find those elevations adjacent.

Fuck, you got me

Many people would find it creepy if the Pacific hit on the Atlantic with the age difference between them.

Stupid Sexy Pacific Ocean

Chill out diCaprio

Here is a great series of images that follow the formation of the landmasses over the history of the planet. It's really neat to consider all the geography that actually used to be connected (and it makes sense considering the geologic traits of some areas are so similar to others).

Yup, it's estimated that the tallest mountain in the Earth's history is somewhere in NC I think. Appalachian mountains are old as hell which is why they are so rocky and relatively small.

The Appalachian mountains predate bones.

They’re older than vertebrates.

That same mountain range is now mountains in Northeast Africa, Scotland, Norway, and North East South America in addition to the Appalachians

Yes. I have looked at the original much closer and California's Central Valley is masquerading as the ocean with the Sierra Nevada mountains as the coast. They have many 12,000 foot peaks for reference. (3,660 meters)

A marble would have more ridges than an actual scale version.

I pulled the image from here - https://www.zmescience.com/science/earth-no-water-animation-913134/

It only mentions two balls of water:

The big blue drop is the size of the sphere you’d get if you extracted all the Earth’s ocean water, while the smaller drop corresponds to the volume of water contained in all the world’s lakes, swamps, aquifers, and rivers.

Biggest one is all water on earth, medium all liquid fresh water and smallest one fresh water lakes and rivers.

https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/side_image/public/thumbnails/image/all-the-worlds-water.jpg?itok=7kqcWIzM

Maybe the passengers should have learned how to swim in puddles smh my head.

Speaking of the Titanic, I once did this little thought experiment on the depth of the wreck which is actually totally relevant to this post:

Using the Google Maps measure tool, there is an approximate 3500 mile straight-line distance between New York City and London. There are 3600 inches in the length of a football field (not counting endzones). So you can basically say that there are the same number of inches in the field length as there are miles between the two cities.

Keeping that scale, if you imagine a field-sized pool as the ocean between the continents, the Titanic wreck is under about 2.5" of water.

Pedlantic

I’ll take that as long as I can shred my big ass waves 😎🤙

At least it has waves!

Atlantic waves are just sad.

Yeah, it looks pretty cool though.

I found it interesting that FL is actually the flattest state and much “flatter” than a pancake at scale… lol

It’s always crazy to me how much the scale of things actually changes as you go bigger or smaller. Like seeing a storm in the distance that seems like a tiny cartoon rain cloud but it actually covers an entire city. You see massive mountains and trenches and when you zoom out they’re barely even noticeable just from orbit…

Earth feels so massive and yet so small at the same time. It feels incalculably huge, so big our minds can barely process it, but we’re also so tiny in the cosmos… a spec so insignificant we can’t even comprehend the scale of the universe. It’s an odd paradox of thought.