The Off Topic Topic

[Razgovory]

Heh.

[HVC]

I just randomly threw up this morning. 

And by this afternoon Ide and his things will just randomly disappear

[Neil]

Pretty sure it gets farther from the Earth every year.

The moon gets 3.6cm further away every year.
But Mt.Everest grows 5cm every year.

Irrelevant.  Everest is a poor reference point, since the moon is only very rarely directly over the peak (the Earth's axial tilt of 23 degrees 26 minutes, added to the angle of the lunar orbit to the ecliptic of 5 degrees 9 minutes gives us 28 degrees 35 minutes.  Everest is 27 degrees 59 minutes north.  Only for a short time each day during two very short periods of the summer would the Earth be tilted over enough for the moon to transit the peak.), and since Everest isn't, in a celestial sense, the highest mountain on Earth, it's doubly useless as a measurement.

[Josquius]

Irrelevant.  Everest is a poor reference point, since the moon is only very rarely directly over the peak (the Earth's axial tilt of 23 degrees 26 minutes, added to the angle of the lunar orbit to the ecliptic of 5 degrees 9 minutes gives us 28 degrees 35 minutes.  Everest is 27 degrees 59 minutes north.  Only for a short time each day during two very short periods of the summer would the Earth be tilted over enough for the moon to transit the peak.), and since Everest isn't, in a celestial sense, the highest mountain on Earth, it's doubly useless as a measurement.

I think you may be taking that amusing little factoid a bit too seriously.

How isn't Everest the highest mountain on earth though?

[sbr]

Irrelevant.  Everest is a poor reference point, since the moon is only very rarely directly over the peak (the Earth's axial tilt of 23 degrees 26 minutes, added to the angle of the lunar orbit to the ecliptic of 5 degrees 9 minutes gives us 28 degrees 35 minutes.  Everest is 27 degrees 59 minutes north.  Only for a short time each day during two very short periods of the summer would the Earth be tilted over enough for the moon to transit the peak.), and since Everest isn't, in a celestial sense, the highest mountain on Earth, it's doubly useless as a measurement.

I think you may be taking that amusing little factoid a bit too seriously.

How isn't Everest the highest mountain on earth though?

Everest isn't the tallest mountain on earth, that is on of the Hawaiian Islands, IIRC.  Everest is the highest point on Earth though.

[Neil]

Irrelevant.  Everest is a poor reference point, since the moon is only very rarely directly over the peak (the Earth's axial tilt of 23 degrees 26 minutes, added to the angle of the lunar orbit to the ecliptic of 5 degrees 9 minutes gives us 28 degrees 35 minutes.  Everest is 27 degrees 59 minutes north.  Only for a short time each day during two very short periods of the summer would the Earth be tilted over enough for the moon to transit the peak.), and since Everest isn't, in a celestial sense, the highest mountain on Earth, it's doubly useless as a measurement.

I think you may be taking that amusing little factoid a bit too seriously.

How isn't Everest the highest mountain on earth though?

Not in the celestial sense.  Everest is the highest point on Earth if you start measuring from sea level.  Mount Chimborazo is higher measuring from the centre of the Earth.  The reason for this is that the Earth bulges at the equator.

[Korea]

I just randomly threw up this morning. 

Congratulations!

I'm sure it's my new medicine.

[Korea]

I just randomly threw up this morning. 

And by this afternoon Ide and his things will just randomly disappear

[Eddie Teach]

I just randomly threw up this morning. 

And by this afternoon Ide and his things will just randomly disappear

Then Raz will be free to make his move.

[lustindarkness]

I just randomly threw up this morning. 

And by this afternoon Ide and his things will just randomly disappear

Then Raz will be free to make his move.

But will Ide take him?

[Korea]

I just randomly threw up this morning. 

And by this afternoon Ide and his things will just randomly disappear

Then Raz will be free to make his move.

[Korea]

I just randomly threw up this morning. 

And by this afternoon Ide and his things will just randomly disappear

Then Raz will be free to make his move.

But will Ide take him?

[Eddie Teach]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnYhsBb89nA&annotation_id=annotation_731589&feature=iv

The bum bot.



Marty will be disappointed.

[Neil]

Irrelevant.  Everest is a poor reference point, since the moon is only very rarely directly over the peak (the Earth's axial tilt of 23 degrees 26 minutes, added to the angle of the lunar orbit to the ecliptic of 5 degrees 9 minutes gives us 28 degrees 35 minutes.  Everest is 27 degrees 59 minutes north.  Only for a short time each day during two very short periods of the summer would the Earth be tilted over enough for the moon to transit the peak.), and since Everest isn't, in a celestial sense, the highest mountain on Earth, it's doubly useless as a measurement.

I think you may be taking that amusing little factoid a bit too seriously.

How isn't Everest the highest mountain on earth though?

Everest isn't the tallest mountain on earth, that is on of the Hawaiian Islands, IIRC.  Everest is the highest point on Earth though.

Depending on where you measure from.  There are two places that make sense to start measuring from when measuring to another astronomical object:  The centre of the Earth and the top of the atmosphere.

[sbr]

Depending on where you measure from.  There are two places that make sense to start measuring from when measuring to another astronomical object:  The centre of the Earth and the top of the atmosphere.

Interesting.  So the Earth isn't a perfect sphere but the top of the atmosphere is, making Cimborazo closest to "space"?