I mean, the planet is likely smoother than a lot of ball bearings
The highest point and the lowest point aren’t very far deviated. Less than 6 miles up and less than 6 miles down. Basically a little less than 0.001% deviation.
Edit: After doing a bit of digging it looks like Earth would be comparable to a 1 inch grade 1000 ball bearing. Grade 1000 are not remotely close to the highest grade, in fact it’s one of the lowest grades of ball bearings.
I’m guessing smoothness doesn’t consider the non-spherical shape of the planet, just the bumpiness of it. But I’m also some random on the Internet, so who knows
I think I’m missing what the smoothness of the planet has to do with it being basically an iron-nickel ball covered by a bit of rock, but being a meat popsicle, I tend to miss a lot of things.
I mean, the planet is likely smoother than a lot of ball bearings
The highest point and the lowest point aren’t very far deviated. Less than 6 miles up and less than 6 miles down. Basically a little less than 0.001% deviation.
Edit: After doing a bit of digging it looks like Earth would be comparable to a 1 inch grade 1000 ball bearing. Grade 1000 are not remotely close to the highest grade, in fact it’s one of the lowest grades of ball bearings.
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God damn ball bearings get down to some crazy tolerances at the really high grades.
I’m happy I dig some digging into it.
New ball bearings are still likely significantly smoother than the earth. Old worn out ball bearings might be rougher.
After doing a bit of digging it looks like Earth would be comparable to a 1 inch grade 1000 ball bearing.
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God damn ball bearings get down to some crazy tolerances.
I’m happy I dig some digging into it.
It’s only natural that it would be rougher than most grades of ball bearings – as we already established its covered in rocks!
So you’re saying the earth is a very smooth ball bearing. This despite being classified as an oblate spheroid.
I’m guessing smoothness doesn’t consider the non-spherical shape of the planet, just the bumpiness of it. But I’m also some random on the Internet, so who knows
I think I’m missing what the smoothness of the planet has to do with it being basically an iron-nickel ball covered by a bit of rock, but being a meat popsicle, I tend to miss a lot of things.
The difference in diameter between the pole and the equator is only about 26 miles.
7926 miles vs 7900 miles
So a difference of about 0.03%
Yeah I’d say that’s pretty spherical