Water mountains are my new favorite concept
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I think they’re onto something. In fact, these water mountains seem to be so common, it might just be one big water mountain that covers the whole planet, and is so big it eventually wraps around and meets itself at the bottom.
No no no. That would NEVER work! See, what’s actually happening is the lizardmen are driving these ships, and taking them to the pirate ports where they sell everything. Thats when they buy evrn MORE drugs, and Steve said I can have some of the drugs. So I started eating these gummies, but it turns out they’re just regular gummy bears. They’re still good though. I would trade you some of my gummy bears for some actual gummies, but I have misplaced my pants…
There are “hills” on the sea. I doesn’t prove that Earth is not also round.
Yep. This is due to variations in the gravitational magnitude at any point from the earth, moon, sun, and other bodies, as well as the periodicity of the earth/moon/sun rotations interacting with friction (between the sea and the sea, the sea and the atmosphere, and the sea and the lithosphere), and creating a giant standing wave (which is constantly changing, like an instrument or a musical composition) of ocean water all over the earth. This doesn’t even take into account atmospheric pressure and water temperature/viscosity variations. The earth is a complex system with waves upon waves upon waves of interacting coupled oscillations all interfering with each other. Whoa 😳
like an instrument or a musical composition) of ocean water all over the earth.
Somebody way better at music should find a way to turn that into music.
And more. Major river discharge can raise the sea level in the area. Then big circular currents similar like when you stirr your cup of coffee or tea. Or chocolate milk 🤤
Shhh.
You’re gonna make their brains hurt.
TIL, thank you
Isn’t that how tides work? The hills move? I’m probably all wrong
It’s all about gravity and then some.
The tides and ordinary waves caused by wind will appear as moving hills.
The daily tides happen from the moon pulling the water towards the line between the moon and earth. This forms the tides that go around the globe everyday. It happens on both sides of the globe, like this:
The topological map shows something else than tides and moving waves though.
The globe isn’t perfectly round. It’s shaped like an irregular geoid, almost shaped like an ellipsoid, but not exactly. The ocean surface topological map takes the usual tides in account and maps the surface in relation to the geoid, so it shows where the water level is higher or lower than it would be if it was perfectly distributed.
The earth’s gravitational field is not perfectly regular, so it will pull more water towards certain areas, and there are things like ocean currents and the regular trade winds happening from Earth’s rotation, all shaping the sea in hills and valleys that are not just waves. These variations span large areas and doesn’t appear as much in relation to the tides. It basically just goes to show that sea level is not at all level. For instance, the east coast of USA has a higher sea level than the west coast. If sea levels should rise from melting ice, it is therefore more likely to spill over the east coast than the west coast.
Wait I have a meme for this (and absolutely no one is surprised):
They have to be trolling, right? There’s no way a flat earther thinks water can bend like that.
“the earth is flat since water is always level, oh except water mountains”
Actually, i could imagine a flat earther would say that now that i think about it
Yeah, you’re right. Why am I expecting any soft of consistency in their train of thought. lol
What is a tide if not a wide and mobile water hill?
Also nowadays we have such accurate satellites that we can actually see the tiny increases in elevation of the sea level that reflect the topology of the sea floor.
Satellites notice the tiny “water mountains” which indicate the topology of the sea floor, and then they scan the place better with equipment on boats.
But yeah, I really think “water mountains” is a bit on a exaggeration to that phenomena.
Yes. And I love that picture.
The “gummy squirrel”? Damn, marine biologists get to have all the fun naming all these animals on top of spending so much time at sea! I’m starting to regret my life choices.
Snot sea cucumber https://australian.museum/learn/animals/sea-stars/snot-sea-cucumber/
Now that you asked, I wonder how flat earthers explain tides.
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They don’t
water mountains
…water mountains…
like… gotta be a troll. please.
I want to know there isn’t a single person on this planet that is that fucking dumb.
Is a tide not a kind of water hill?
imagine if you could, a water mountain or hill as frozen in time… you could wave at it, right?
Yeah, Mount Horizon covers the entire planet
Yo I think I gotta add this to my D&D campaign setting
I don’t think this guy got the memo: the flat earth argument is that water finds its own level. “Large bodies of water don’t curve” as they say.
They believe that the ships don’t actually disappear and that the strong zoom of a Nikon P1000 can actually bring ships back from behind the “curve”.
They’re a very special set of people 👍
strong zoom of a Nikon P1000 can actually bring ships back from behind the “curve”.
wow, observation effects, these people are quantum idiots.
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Well, under certain conditions, it does.
From shore it looks like the ship goes up doesn’t it? But what is happening when you’re on a boat and go on the ocean.? Maybe the water mountains are like silicon breasts as you ride along them they depress under the weight?
Mother Earth’s fake boobs
I have never met a flat earther, but if I did and she was hot I’d see what else I could convince her to believe.
It’s fantastic for the skin, I swear, I saw it in Oprah.
Ken M, is that you? (i hope so!)
Awh man I miss Ken M
Do you mean Ken Ham? Oo
It’s pretty impressive when you troll so hard and so prolifically that Wikipedia gives you an article.
Not to mention he’s actually funny, not a dick.
Oh, today I learned!
Just a quick question.
How does one go about hiding a ship in a glacier?
Okay. Make that two questions.
Why does one hide a ship in a glacier?!
So that one day, the shape-shifting alien can thaw and gobble up the entire crew of a research station?
There’s a simple reason why you have to make up water mountains to picture the horizon:
Scale issue.
I really wanted to like Interstellar, but that whole “love can transcend dimensions” thing just really killed it for me. I mean the notion is lovely and so on, but it’d been doing a pretty good job at being a hard scifi story so it felt like a letdown to have that sort of hokey nonexplanation for the big picture, like the Nolans just gave up with the script at some point
Wow. First time I’ve heard this complaint in the last 10 years. 🙄
What’s your point? Nobody’s allowed to voice their opinions if they’re not unique?
It’s OK for me to not like some parts of the plot and say it out loud even if it’s a common complaint, just like it’s OK for people to like those parts.
Well I’m just fucking sick of hearing this specific complaint again and again and again. Listening to techbros at reddit getting uncomfortable because ‘their’ hardcore sci-fi movie had human emotions, expressed by a woman. I mean, ewww cringe, amirite? Talk about time travel and shit some more. 🙄
That’s absolutely understandable, it but it’s not where I’m coming from – which of course you wouldn’t be able to know just based on what I wrote. I’m more of an emotional softie than not, and a feminine enby in addition to being a huge nerd, and while I really do love movies that give me feels, the Nolan ham just didn’t work for me in Interstellar.
Water mountain, aka an iceberg. Checkmate, atheists.
Show me in the bowl of water how it’s done
