The billiard ball bit is true, but the shrunken earth is more like a billiard ball that has rolled through a piece of pizza left on the table. The cheese bits make the mountains, and.....

actually it is simple the ratio of diameter runout is < 1:1000 i.e. 6 miles to 7000. That is pretty smooth especially when those peaks are few and far between.

"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."

And 5000 years ago when He finished implanting the oil to facilitate our daily travel, and poking the dinosaur bones in there to give archaeologists something to do, He then though "Oh s**t, I forgot the poor mountaineers ! ". And thus became the origin of mountains.

geoff

"It's not a moon, it is a cheese ball."

No - it's a balloon. David Niven wrote a book about it , so it must be true.

geoff

Sorry to spoil a good story with fact, but the earth is not a sphere like a billiard ball, but an oblate spheroid, like a Smarty or M&M. (credit due to Wikipedia).

mmm, m&m's, drool.....

Wikipedia fails again. The earth is more like a plump tomato, except one where the ends don't go back inwards again. Can you imagine Scott's team returning and saying, "Well, he leaned too far over the edge and fell in. That South Pole is really dangerous. But juicy."

'Hollow earth' theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth

Some go a step further saying there is an opening/entrance somewere on the north/south pole.

VMP

That'd be the Earth where everything is opposite, and balances out this Earth. Good=Bad, black=white, positive=negative, and I am you and you are me !

geoff

Interesting. Ah so you are my opposite geoff? :-D.

How did this get so far OT?

Most of the topics does GeeBax.
You can always trace back some posts above.

VMP

""How did this get so far OT?""

That would be "TO" in the twin-mirror-earth.

geoff

Indeed!! I mean... deedni!!

VMP

Actually i think that would be "GL".

lla ouy erongi I.

:)

nottub taht gnidnif kcul doog

;-).

VMP

[I]Most of the topics does GeeBax.[/I]

As I get older I find I drift off topic very easily, even when mumbling to myself.
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The moon is, in fact, a blind eye.

(any excuse to share this slice of utter beauty)

Nice song Nick

The thing that I ponder is how we can focus our lens on the moon and see everything clearly when the moon is 400 000 km away?
Is it because it is very big? because if I stand at distance and film the Eifel tower and it is out of range for my lens everything is out of range = size is immaterial. it’s the focal length front and back of the lens. Are my eyes that good that I can see an object clearly 400 000 km away even through our entire atmosphere when the moon rises?
I chose then to believe that it is not 500 000 km away based on my own experience and that is what art, photography and filming is. = the freedom to chose and express
what you perceive.
Cheese so now some folks are going to ignore me because I don’t believe what they believe.. we can’t ignore freedom of thought... fortunately.

My first 35 mm still film camera was very basic. You had to set everything including focus, and there was no through the lens viewing. I bought myself a cheap device to measure distance (I forget what you call such things) and after a few days I noticed that it was obviously in error. It had an adjustment on it. You looked at something "infinitely" far away and turned a screw. After a while I noticed that it was still wrong so I took it back to the shop and told the man what I had.

"Infinity is 70 feet", he said. How many millions of miles is the moon away?"

(Its about a quarter, actually)

Take THAT, Neil DeGrasse Tyson! Infinity is 70 feet!

You and your cosmos...bah!