The Off Topic Topic

[Zanza]

I think we discussed that data, in this very same thread.

I rarely read this thread.

[Admiral Yi]

 

Syt, you're a genius.

[Monoriu]

So why can't you find a better job, Mono?

Well, *I* posted a link to this graph earlier in this thread 

I studied accounting, yes.  But I jumped ship (i.e. chickened out) before I started my accounting career.  I am now way too old for this. 

[Malthus]

Comming soon to a tourism ad near you: "visit beautiful Laos; find new species of animals!"

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2347562.htm?tab=latest

[lustindarkness]

This is my preempticve strike for whenever Timmy posts the story about the robotic sub dive to 6.8 miles to the bottom of the Mariana Trench:
Damn that is deep. 

[Grey Fox]

11km is 11km.

Altho, Cousteau had already been there Man > Machine.

[Savonarola]

11km is 11km.

Altho, Cousteau had already been there Man > Machine.

11 Km,  

Captain Nemo went 20,000 leagues under the sea; that's 110,000 Km.

[Grey Fox]

11km is 11km.

Altho, Cousteau had already been there Man > Machine.

11 Km,  

Captain Nemo went 20,000 leagues under the sea; that's 110,000 Km.

So a about 1/3 of the way to the Moon?

Earth is DEEP

[Savonarola]

So a about 1/3 of the way to the Moon?

Earth is DEEP

That's why it was so easy for the astronauts to get to the moon; submarines had already gone a third of the way there.

[lustindarkness]

You guys have put some deep thought into this.

[Syt]

That's something that I never get about mountains on other planets - in most cases those are measured from the lowest point of the planet to the highest peak, no? Isn't Earth at a disadvantage there, in that Earth's mountains are counted from sea level, losing 11 km? I'm referring to people saying, mountain X on planet y is 12km high, while Earth's highest mountain is only almost 9km high.

[Mr.Penguin]

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[garbon]

Captain Nemo went 20,000 leagues under the sea; that's 110,000 Km.

Fail!

The title refers to the distance traveled under the sea and not to a depth, as 20,000 leagues is over 15 times the radius of the earth. The greatest depth mentioned in the book is four leagues. A literal translation of the French title would end in the plural "seas", thus implying the "seven seas" through which the characters of the novel travel. However the regular English translation of the title uses "sea", meaning the ocean in general, as in "going to sea".

The word leagues in the English title is a literal translation of lieues, but refers to French leagues. The French league had been a variable unit but in the metric era was standardized as 4 km. Thus the title distance is equivalent to 80,000 km (twice around the Earth) or roundly 50,000 statute miles.[1] In common English usage 1 league equals 3 statute miles.

[DisturbedPervert]

That's something that I never get about mountains on other planets - in most cases those are measured from the lowest point of the planet to the highest peak, no? Isn't Earth at a disadvantage there, in that Earth's mountains are counted from sea level, losing 11 km? I'm referring to people saying, mountain X on planet y is 12km high, while Earth's highest mountain is only almost 9km high.

I think they measure from the base of the mountain and not the lowest point.  Doing that instead of sea level the tallest mountain on earth in Mauna Kea in Hawaii.  Still no where near Olympus Mons.

[jimmy olsen]

Some cool pics here on the subject.

http://martianchronicles.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/olympus-mons-is-how-tall/

Olympus Mons is a big volcano. It is almost unimaginably huge. It is 550 kilometers (342 miles) across at its base, and the volcanic crater (the technical term is 'caldera') at the peak is 80 kilometers (53 miles) long. If you were standing at the edge of the caldera, the volcano is so broad and the slopes are so gradual that the base of the volcano would be beyond the horizon. That's right, it is a volcano so big that it curves with the surface of the planet.

And it is tall. 27 kilometers tall. That's 16.7 miles from base to summit. 88,600 feet. That's about three times as tall as Mt. Everest. Even Mauna Kea, Earth's own giant shield volcano doesn't come close. Measured from the sea floor to its summit, Mauna Kea is 33,476 feet (10.2 km) tall: taller than Everest, but only about 40% the height of Olympus Mons.