> Earth is definitely not flat, but it’s not perfectly spherical, either. Due to its constant rotation, our Earth is closer to a squashed elliptoid.
This is a stupid description. It is an oblate spheroid simply because it’s not a perfect sphere, but…
The ratio of shortest (polar) to longest (equatorial) diameters is .9966. It’s a difference of 42km out of ~12700 km. The earth is 99.7% spherical (by this measure).
Charmegazord | 20 hours ago
Well yeah those dudes were heavy
KennyFulgencio | 20 hours ago
Username checks out
SlogurkTheOverslime | 14 hours ago
Earth Tipped on Its Side During the Age of Your Mom - and Not Just Once
garathnor | 17 hours ago
Gizmodo..... Cmon
PrestigiousFog | 14 hours ago
Bullshit journalism
reddititty69 | 9 hours ago
> Earth is definitely not flat, but it’s not perfectly spherical, either. Due to its constant rotation, our Earth is closer to a squashed elliptoid.
This is a stupid description. It is an oblate spheroid simply because it’s not a perfect sphere, but…
The ratio of shortest (polar) to longest (equatorial) diameters is .9966. It’s a difference of 42km out of ~12700 km. The earth is 99.7% spherical (by this measure).
Helldiver_of_Mars | 15 hours ago
Ya supposedly if you believe it we're close to another one. Just not sure sub 1000 years or closer to 100,000. Which is close in the scale of things.