We all live on a gravity potato
gravity potato, gravity potato
We all live on a gravity potato
gravity potato, gravity potato
this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
54 points (100.0% liked)
Mildly Interesting
20394 readers
758 users here now
This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.
This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
Just post some stuff and don't spam.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
”Skies of gray, (Skies of gray)”
”And seas of brown, (Seas of brown)”
”On our potato, (Our potato)”
”In the ground. (In the ground)”
Maybe my eyes are gliding over it, but does anyone know what the actual difference is? They've got relative "+80" to "-80", but no indication of what those units are. Would I be 1 kg lighter between the highest and lowest spot or .0001 grams lighter?
Based on Wikipedia I think the unit is milligals, where a gal is 1 centimeter per second squared.
That is a bit of an odd unit where g is ~980,000 milligals.
So these changes are extremely small.
So then the total variation is all within about 0.02% of gravities normal value
The article says it's "slightly different", I imagine of a few grams, cuz a difference of 1kg between zones would be exaggerated.
Look at that low US gravity, no wonder we're so fat. And then there's Australia and New Zealand over there breeding the next evolution of super humans.
But most of all, wtf is going on in the Indian Ocean? Does shit just randomly launch into space sometimes?