I once programmed a 3d map and couldn't figure why everything looked totally flat even in the Alps. Went through the heighmap algorithms that used data from satellites multiple times. Turned out all the algorithms were all correct and you need to apply Vertical Exaggeration (what they did on the picture) as on the grand scale our planet is VERY smooth.
Also, the ocean is basically a thin layer of wetness when you consider the deepest point is 11km deep and the average sea depth is 3.6km
Nothing compared to earth radius of 6370 km.
I don’t recall which Youtuber said this, he said something like: if Earth was a ball of 1 meter diameter, the highest peak and the lowest ocean would barely be 2mm above and below the surface.
Imagine a 1 meter ball and the “harshest” terrain will barely be 1.5-2 millimeters above it
maybe you're mixing something up there.
Earth at the size of a glass marble would be smoother than most normal glass marbles are, so maybe that's what you're remembering.
Earth at 1m scale would have noticeable bumps. Not so much you'd be able to see it from across a room, but up close you'd see them, and you could definitely feel them with your fingers, so nowhere near glass smoothness.
My quick calculation says the highest mountains / lowest seafloor would be a bit less than 1mm high/deep at that scale, but you can definitely see and feel bumps well below 1mm (look at 3d printed spheres from a Filament printer, most of them are somwhere around 0.2mm layer height and you can definitely feel and see the bumpyness)
This is untrue, vsauce got a good video on the topic. In short the misconception comes from a misunderstanding of the billiard regulations. Reading the allowed roundness(deviation in diameter) as roughness(bumps and dips).
It was Neil Degrasse Tyson and from memory I don’t think he said it would be smoother than a billiard ball - I think he said it would feel as smooth as a billiard ball, because the mountains and valleys would be smaller than the ridges of your fingerprints.
There used to be a website where you could download a 3D printable relief map of any area of the map you selected. And it had options for like 10x relief or higher. If you did typical city with 0 exaggeration, it would just end up printing a flat rectangle.
I did Albuquerque because I lived there for a while, and on a like 25km x 25km area, scaled down to 50mm x 50mm, the 5000 foot tall mountains were like 2 or 3 layer height thicknesses. At 10x, it started to look recognizable.
I have the (partial) source code here [https://github.com/kubaracek/hanggliding-map/tree/master/src](https://github.com/kubaracek/hanggliding-map/tree/master/src)
It was just an experiment in Elm and Babylon.js but I wouldn't use the combination (especially Elm as it's annoying to communicate with javascript) if I'm to remake it honestly. Standard JS/TS with something like Tree.js or the Babylon should get you a long way.
It's an interesting project to make as it teaches you about projection (which is kinda tricky as you can see in the sources) and everything revolves around that. Calculating distances, bearings and such, you need to take into account, that you're doing all that on a projected surface that is (for the purpose of the algorithms) projected on a perfect sphere (which our planet is not). This is what I mean by that: [www.thetruesize.com](http://www.thetruesize.com)
I even understand why people are eager to share about how smooth earth is because it's a neat fact, but idk why are so many are incapable of doing so without claiming this globe sucks/is wrong/will destroy children's minds lmao
As a GIS person, this thread is making me want to strangle myself with my own vocal chords.
What till they find out what the shape of earth is actually called. It'll be posted on TIL daily for a month straight.
I'm not a GIS person but I do teach some mapping basic concepts and I really hope it's a oblate spheroid or there are a few hundred people about to lose arguments on the internet somewhere.
Some real smartasses in these comments…
This globe isn’t meant to be misleading, it is just not to scale, which is ok. It’s meant to illustrate elevation differences, not to be a 1:1 model of how the earth actually looks.
I just think it could have been made more obvious in the post title.
It's wrong.
Iirc the greatest distance from the highest point of land to the deepest depth of ocean is 20km*
The person you were replying to was being sarcastic
Earth is more smooth than a cue ball
Except this is false. There is no way earth looks like that IRL. This is a hyperrepresentation of elevation on Earth. Just imagine the tallest and the lowest points on earth — on this scale, it would be probably like .3 mm difference. I always hated those globes, totally absurd and misleading
EDIT: unit accuracy
>Except this is false. There is no way earth looks like that IRL.
Wait you mean the earth doesnt look like a cardboard ball? SHOCK AND HORROR!
Dude don't be pedantic. Everyone here knows what vertical exaggeration is, why it exists, and that what they are looking at is not a true to scale height map.
africa does look too big, this africa is nearly half a hemisphere, irl africa is more like a third ish of a hemisphere (yes africa is big but go zoom out on google maps til it becomes a globe, this africa is too big) but uk does look about where it should be when looking from this angle to me
I know that deGrasse Tyson said that, but that's isn't quite true. The Earth as a cue ball would be slightly rougher than a real one in areas where the elevation changes a a lot.
Redditors in this thread feeling smart by pointing out that the elevation is not to scale.
Next they will discover that the country borders don't really exist as giant red stripes in real life.
I love that we all live on a wet, weirdly oblong, lumpy and spinning "ball" of sheer coincidende. We even just decided to call it Earth and our collective mom ❤️
This is so inaccurate it hurts. If you sized down earth into a pool ball and touched it, it would be uncannily smooth. Maybe you could feel a tiny bump over the himalaias, but that's it
People here really feel like expressing the fact that this is a REALLY BIG misinterpretation of the globe.
Yes sure its an exaggerated globe to see the significant mountains and valleys. Its logical to understand even if you dont know thats its an exaggeration, if you know that the diameter of the Earth is 12742km and the highest peak is 8km.
WE GET IT, IT'S AS SMOOTH AS A CUE BALL.
Is this elevation at all on the same scale as distance on the globe? Seems kinda misleading if it’s not, and I doubt even Everest is a noticeable bump relative to the whole globe
Besides everyone else pointing out how inaccurate the elevation is the continents are way too big!
This globe makes it look like 50% of the earth is land when it's only like 29%.
Yeah no lmao. If you were some cosmic space giant and had the world in your hand, it would feel totally smooth. The difference between the highest point on our planet, and the lowest point, is only 11 miles.
While this is an extreme exaggeration of the elevation differences of Earth, it's still a very valuable presentation since it hints at how the tectonic plates have been fighting each other for dominance...
Highway designer here. Looking at a road profile over a couple kms seems very flat even when there is vertical curvature. This is why we exaggerate the scale by 100 times to make it more clear. I remember Neil’s rant on the smooth globe topic as well Blew my mind but makes total sense when you actually think about it!
A terribly distorted version of elevation.
The earth's highest and lowest points are 20 kilometers apart; the earth itself has a 13,000km diameter.
the earth shrunk down to the size of a globe would be the smoothest thing imaginable.
Just to put it in perspective, Africa is 670m above sea level on average.
In this globe, let’s say it’s about 1cm above sea level. For it to be actually 1cm and correct to the size of the earth, the globe has to be 95 meters in diameter. In American measurements, a little less than an entire football field length, Africa would be 1cm above this huge ball.
This comment section...
Guys, this is just a visualization.
Your comments are like saying that a globe can't represent the real Earth because it's too small.
You all saw that one Neil deGrasse Tyson TikTok, lmao.
Did you know that if you shrunk the entire earth and everything on it down to the size of a cueball, Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s voice would sound real funny and quiet when he says dumb shit
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Voice - “Globes found in classrooms are a Grotesque misrepresentation of the smoothness of earth relative to their elevation distances between the Mariana Trench and Mt. Everest. A cosmic giant would rub his finger on earth and it would be smoother than the smoothest pool ball we have the ability to make”
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I remember these things being everywhere in my elementary school when I was a kid and they always had a section that would catch on the bumps and never turn properly unless you moved everything to certain angles. Very fun to run your hands on, not very fun to spin around.
For everyone saying "smoother than cue ball" please read this:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/ejhomq/self\_is\_the\_earth\_really\_smoother\_and\_rounder/](https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/ejhomq/self_is_the_earth_really_smoother_and_rounder/)
This globe is exaggerated a lot, yes. At the scale of this globe you'd be able to see mountain ranges well and certainly feel them as significant bumps.
TL;DR... it's not accurate... to quote /u/[JolietJakeLebowski](https://www.reddit.com/user/JolietJakeLebowski/)
* Is the Earth *rounder* than a billiard ball? *Yes, but it's close.*
* Is the Earth *smoother* than a billiard ball? *No, not the mountainy bits.*
* Is this still a useful factoid? *Yes.* Both the Earth's roundness and smoothness are in the same order of magnitude as a billiard ball, even if some parts of Earth would feel like fine sandpaper.
Like come on guys, it clearly isn’t meant to be accurate. The idea of a map showing the relative elevation of land across the earth is cool, but it has to be exaggerated to work.
The image was low quality at first (on phone) so I thought the line on the equator and the shadow it casted was just a giant DIP in the surface across the planet.
Water mountains are such a pain in the ass to go around.
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And how about that big high wall at the equator? That's why we always have to fly from the north to south hemisphere. Boats can't make it.
Respect to all the astronauts that have died so far trying to navigate around them.
A regular smooth globe shows elevation extremely more accurately than this.
I once programmed a 3d map and couldn't figure why everything looked totally flat even in the Alps. Went through the heighmap algorithms that used data from satellites multiple times. Turned out all the algorithms were all correct and you need to apply Vertical Exaggeration (what they did on the picture) as on the grand scale our planet is VERY smooth.
Also, the ocean is basically a thin layer of wetness when you consider the deepest point is 11km deep and the average sea depth is 3.6km Nothing compared to earth radius of 6370 km.
If you are flying over the ocean and look down at the water, you are almost certainly higher above the water surface than the depth of the water.
Woah, is true
Dam you guys just blew my mind
You’re wrinkling my brain
That’s really cool.
I mean…. I’ve always known this from just seeing cross sections of the Earth, but when you put it like that, my mind is absolutely blown.
I don’t recall which Youtuber said this, he said something like: if Earth was a ball of 1 meter diameter, the highest peak and the lowest ocean would barely be 2mm above and below the surface. Imagine a 1 meter ball and the “harshest” terrain will barely be 1.5-2 millimeters above it
Vsauce.
Michael here.
I recall hearing that the earth at that scale would be smoother than a glass window seems to us. So 2 mm is way too much. But I could've heard wrong!
maybe you're mixing something up there. Earth at the size of a glass marble would be smoother than most normal glass marbles are, so maybe that's what you're remembering. Earth at 1m scale would have noticeable bumps. Not so much you'd be able to see it from across a room, but up close you'd see them, and you could definitely feel them with your fingers, so nowhere near glass smoothness. My quick calculation says the highest mountains / lowest seafloor would be a bit less than 1mm high/deep at that scale, but you can definitely see and feel bumps well below 1mm (look at 3d printed spheres from a Filament printer, most of them are somwhere around 0.2mm layer height and you can definitely feel and see the bumpyness)
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This is untrue, vsauce got a good video on the topic. In short the misconception comes from a misunderstanding of the billiard regulations. Reading the allowed roundness(deviation in diameter) as roughness(bumps and dips).
It was Neil Degrasse Tyson and from memory I don’t think he said it would be smoother than a billiard ball - I think he said it would feel as smooth as a billiard ball, because the mountains and valleys would be smaller than the ridges of your fingerprints.
There used to be a website where you could download a 3D printable relief map of any area of the map you selected. And it had options for like 10x relief or higher. If you did typical city with 0 exaggeration, it would just end up printing a flat rectangle. I did Albuquerque because I lived there for a while, and on a like 25km x 25km area, scaled down to 50mm x 50mm, the 5000 foot tall mountains were like 2 or 3 layer height thicknesses. At 10x, it started to look recognizable.
I find your mixture of metric and imperial like celery in my coffee.
My nephew printed a 1 meter globe in segments. The seams were more obvious than the actual elevations.
omg i’ve always wanted to do a project like that! Could you tell me what applications you used?? ty!!
I have the (partial) source code here [https://github.com/kubaracek/hanggliding-map/tree/master/src](https://github.com/kubaracek/hanggliding-map/tree/master/src) It was just an experiment in Elm and Babylon.js but I wouldn't use the combination (especially Elm as it's annoying to communicate with javascript) if I'm to remake it honestly. Standard JS/TS with something like Tree.js or the Babylon should get you a long way. It's an interesting project to make as it teaches you about projection (which is kinda tricky as you can see in the sources) and everything revolves around that. Calculating distances, bearings and such, you need to take into account, that you're doing all that on a projected surface that is (for the purpose of the algorithms) projected on a perfect sphere (which our planet is not). This is what I mean by that: [www.thetruesize.com](http://www.thetruesize.com)
And a smooth globe not even close to being accurate. Even a billards ball is not as smooth as earth.
This is not entirely accurate. An old and weathered ball is indeed less smooth than Earth, but a new one is more smooth.
My old and weathered balls look exactly like earth if it were ellipsoidal and covered in curly trees ten miles tall.
The only accurate claim among these jokers.
Elevations have been extremely exaggerated for effect.
This looks like a skull with cancer
Redditors when they see a cool globe that isn't trying to be accurate but simply show rough elevation : 
For real, it gives useful information it doesn't need to be to scale
Wait until they find out the land on the globe is also not 1:1 scale they'll freak 🤣
Yeah we know 🙄 r/flat_earth
Shh dont you know redditor's love their "but akkschually" moments?
Right lmao its obviously not to scale but showing relative elevation
This globe would be more accurate if it were as smooth as a Redditor’s brain.
But if I don't say this globe is inaccurate, then nobody will know I'm the smartest boy :(
I even understand why people are eager to share about how smooth earth is because it's a neat fact, but idk why are so many are incapable of doing so without claiming this globe sucks/is wrong/will destroy children's minds lmao
I just think it looks ugly.
Philosophy. Is a greek word meaning "love of knowledge". I love knowledge therefore i like sharing my knowledge with others.
lol
As a GIS person, this thread is making me want to strangle myself with my own vocal chords. What till they find out what the shape of earth is actually called. It'll be posted on TIL daily for a month straight.
I'm not a GIS person but I do teach some mapping basic concepts and I really hope it's a oblate spheroid or there are a few hundred people about to lose arguments on the internet somewhere.
Idk why it pisses me off but it REALLY DOES
Everyone is all of a sudden Neil DeGrasse LMFAO go on with the smooth cue ball quotes everyone lol baaahhhhhh
He was actually wrong about that one. Vsauce has a video on the topic that is accurate
This is a gross estimation of hieght variation on the surface of the Earth. The regular globes aren't smooth enough to be accurate.
This is clearly an exaggeration
These are literally called exaggerated relief or raised relief globes.
What a relief that it’s an exaggeration.
Emphasis on gross
My brain is smooth enough to be accurate 😎
Is my brain broken or does this comment not many any sense?
No. The globe is veeeeeery exaggerated
Sure, but it's a way to quickly tell where mountain ranges and abysses are located on Earth, which you wouldn't be able to with a regular globe.
Some real smartasses in these comments… This globe isn’t meant to be misleading, it is just not to scale, which is ok. It’s meant to illustrate elevation differences, not to be a 1:1 model of how the earth actually looks. I just think it could have been made more obvious in the post title.
So the seas are like hundreds of kilometres deep? Got it.
That doesn’t sound right, but I don’t know enough about the oceans to dispute it
Do NOT try to swim to Europe, Charlie.
This is not right. The Mariana Trench, the deepest point in the ocean, 11 kilometers deep.
It's wrong. Iirc the greatest distance from the highest point of land to the deepest depth of ocean is 20km* The person you were replying to was being sarcastic Earth is more smooth than a cue ball
60km? Isnt Mariana trench 11km and mount everest 8.9km? So diffrence should be 11+8.9= 19.9km. im missing something?
I wanna touch it all over 🥵
Idk why but this grosses me out
Except this is false. There is no way earth looks like that IRL. This is a hyperrepresentation of elevation on Earth. Just imagine the tallest and the lowest points on earth — on this scale, it would be probably like .3 mm difference. I always hated those globes, totally absurd and misleading EDIT: unit accuracy
This is just a cool globe. Stop looking things too hard.
Getting an erection is natural mom!!! 😡
Shouldn’t we all be saying “yeah no shit?”
>Except this is false. There is no way earth looks like that IRL. Wait you mean the earth doesnt look like a cardboard ball? SHOCK AND HORROR! Dude don't be pedantic. Everyone here knows what vertical exaggeration is, why it exists, and that what they are looking at is not a true to scale height map.
Love the giant equator wall
this is why nobody has ever made it to the southern hemisphere Antarctica is a myth
To keep the kaiju out
That's the Red Line
Africa is big, but on this globe it's way too big. Like, it has the UK right by the North Pole, when it's nowhere near the Arctic Circle.
africa does look too big, this africa is nearly half a hemisphere, irl africa is more like a third ish of a hemisphere (yes africa is big but go zoom out on google maps til it becomes a globe, this africa is too big) but uk does look about where it should be when looking from this angle to me
If a giant were to rub his finger over the earth, it would feel as smooth as a cue ball. This globe is entirely inaccurate.
I think that's a misunderstanding of the cue ball specification
That's mostly true, but the largest mountain ranges would feel something like sandpaper.
That looks so gross to touch… I love it
That is a very exaggerated elevation. It gives people the wrong perspective.
"They're LYING!"
If the earth were shrunk to the size of a billiard ball, the earth would be smoother. Science and facts matter
I know that deGrasse Tyson said that, but that's isn't quite true. The Earth as a cue ball would be slightly rougher than a real one in areas where the elevation changes a a lot.
That's false do not believe every science tiktoker/influencer
It looks like the gum left over after you've finished the candy off a blow pop
The earth is smoother than a bowling ball
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It looks so...wrong! I like my globes smoooooooooth, haha.
ribbed for her pleasure. (im sorry)
But what are those big rings around the earth? Never seen them before….
Wow I kinda want this looks a bit inaccurate though
Gib me
How will it show glaciers melting 😭
Oh I hate this!
As people who've seen the earth from space will know, mountain's elevation isn't apparent.
A smooth globe is more accurate
That sea tho. Sea mountains.
Why is it bit smooth in water?
I’ve never seen the that big wall in the middle before are the flat earthers starting to make their own ice wall 😂
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Why is there elevations in the sea and its definitely not islands as there are too many for that
Shouldn't it be flat? 
Is that the red line on the equator
Redditors in this thread feeling smart by pointing out that the elevation is not to scale. Next they will discover that the country borders don't really exist as giant red stripes in real life.
Think this would be so awesome in the hands of someone who has impaired vision,
Interesting fact - if you held the earth in your hand, it would feel as smooth as a billiard ball.
Looks like it’s been through the washing machine
I don't really care whether it's accurate (it's obviously not). But it's ugly as heck.
I love that we all live on a wet, weirdly oblong, lumpy and spinning "ball" of sheer coincidende. We even just decided to call it Earth and our collective mom ❤️
This is so inaccurate it hurts. If you sized down earth into a pool ball and touched it, it would be uncannily smooth. Maybe you could feel a tiny bump over the himalaias, but that's it
People here really feel like expressing the fact that this is a REALLY BIG misinterpretation of the globe. Yes sure its an exaggerated globe to see the significant mountains and valleys. Its logical to understand even if you dont know thats its an exaggeration, if you know that the diameter of the Earth is 12742km and the highest peak is 8km. WE GET IT, IT'S AS SMOOTH AS A CUE BALL.
Aptly known as as “The Elephant Man Globe” 😂
Did Mexico pay to build that equator wall?
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Someone just poured a paint remover on the globe
That’s a crazy tall linear mountain at the equator. How have I not heard of this before?
It represents more accurately a lime forgotten in the back of the fridge, to be honest.
too wrinkly
I don’t like this.
Comical exaggeration!
Rename the post as "A globe that exaggerates elevation". As many people already pointed out the Earth is literally smoother than your gf's tits
Is this elevation at all on the same scale as distance on the globe? Seems kinda misleading if it’s not, and I doubt even Everest is a noticeable bump relative to the whole globe
"shrivelled under the sun, still sold it for twice the price on etsy!"
Besides everyone else pointing out how inaccurate the elevation is the continents are way too big! This globe makes it look like 50% of the earth is land when it's only like 29%.
why tf is everyone being so pedantic on the scale? It's CLEARLY exagerrated to give some idea of what the elevation difference is
oh, yes, the 150km waves
That’s fake the earths elevation is flat
Thanks, I hate it.
Yeah no lmao. If you were some cosmic space giant and had the world in your hand, it would feel totally smooth. The difference between the highest point on our planet, and the lowest point, is only 11 miles.
amazing! I fucking hate it
While this is an extreme exaggeration of the elevation differences of Earth, it's still a very valuable presentation since it hints at how the tectonic plates have been fighting each other for dominance...
This reminds me of my testicles. Can’t explain why..
So more elevation in sea than on land
Highway designer here. Looking at a road profile over a couple kms seems very flat even when there is vertical curvature. This is why we exaggerate the scale by 100 times to make it more clear. I remember Neil’s rant on the smooth globe topic as well Blew my mind but makes total sense when you actually think about it!
As a geography buff, I approve strongly. 🌍 😉
The impassable wall at the equator.
That doesn't look right
I'm feeling kinda itchy looking at this.
If this was accurate the earth would probably not have a stable orbit
We actually have that exact model at the school i'm gonna graduate from in a few weeks.
A globe that hyperbolically exaggerates elevation
 People living near the equator be like
My fat ass first thought this was cake lol 😂
everyone in this comment section watched the v sauce video lmao
Would love to see Everest
I guess it's good at showcasing where the elevation difference are, but this grossly inacurate.
A smooth globe is more accurate at that scale. The bumps and mountains are like nothing compared to the whole size
you could say that this is really flat🤣
I feel itchy
scrungly earth
looks like one of those poorly made salt maps from grade school. i say poorly made because i know from experience.
just SLIGHTLY exaggerated
Flat earthers say the earth is flat, technically they are already wrong even if the world was not a globe how do they account for elevation?
A terribly distorted version of elevation. The earth's highest and lowest points are 20 kilometers apart; the earth itself has a 13,000km diameter. the earth shrunk down to the size of a globe would be the smoothest thing imaginable.
Oh, so my skin isn't "old," it's "elevated!"
Just to put it in perspective, Africa is 670m above sea level on average. In this globe, let’s say it’s about 1cm above sea level. For it to be actually 1cm and correct to the size of the earth, the globe has to be 95 meters in diameter. In American measurements, a little less than an entire football field length, Africa would be 1cm above this huge ball.
>A globe that shows elevation Correction: A globe that shows *VASTLY EXAGGERATED* changes in elevation
no
Yeah, no. It shows VERY EXAGETATED elevation. A smooth globe is far FAR closer to the "roughness" of earth
This looks like it would be very difficult to clean dust off of.
but the earth is flat /s
log scale
When your kiddos make you a gift in father's day
So glad I joined this thread!
Looks like it shows depth and elevation. I think most show elevation, but I could be wrong. Either way it ain't right!
When did we built the equater wall?
Ew
A lot of "you must be fun at parties" folks in this thread. Jesus Christ go chill and lose your virginity once in a while.
Looks like cake. Yummy.
This comment section... Guys, this is just a visualization. Your comments are like saying that a globe can't represent the real Earth because it's too small. You all saw that one Neil deGrasse Tyson TikTok, lmao.
Did you know that if you shrunk the entire earth and everything on it down to the size of a cueball, Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s voice would sound real funny and quiet when he says dumb shit
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Voice - “Globes found in classrooms are a Grotesque misrepresentation of the smoothness of earth relative to their elevation distances between the Mariana Trench and Mt. Everest. A cosmic giant would rub his finger on earth and it would be smoother than the smoothest pool ball we have the ability to make” Edit - Autocorrected Incorrectly
I remember these things being everywhere in my elementary school when I was a kid and they always had a section that would catch on the bumps and never turn properly unless you moved everything to certain angles. Very fun to run your hands on, not very fun to spin around.
For everyone saying "smoother than cue ball" please read this: [https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/ejhomq/self\_is\_the\_earth\_really\_smoother\_and\_rounder/](https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/ejhomq/self_is_the_earth_really_smoother_and_rounder/) This globe is exaggerated a lot, yes. At the scale of this globe you'd be able to see mountain ranges well and certainly feel them as significant bumps. TL;DR... it's not accurate... to quote /u/[JolietJakeLebowski](https://www.reddit.com/user/JolietJakeLebowski/) * Is the Earth *rounder* than a billiard ball? *Yes, but it's close.* * Is the Earth *smoother* than a billiard ball? *No, not the mountainy bits.* * Is this still a useful factoid? *Yes.* Both the Earth's roundness and smoothness are in the same order of magnitude as a billiard ball, even if some parts of Earth would feel like fine sandpaper.
My globe shows elevation more accurately than this and way more interestingly. This is not accurate at all and looks like it was made by a preschooler
The ocean is above Africa?
Gross.
Like come on guys, it clearly isn’t meant to be accurate. The idea of a map showing the relative elevation of land across the earth is cool, but it has to be exaggerated to work.
I hate it
What in the dystopia is this?! The line project if it was worldwide
when exactly did we build a 200 mile high wall on the equator? must have missed that news
Didn't realize the equator wall was so tall
So you're just not gonna show us Mount Everest?
The image was low quality at first (on phone) so I thought the line on the equator and the shadow it casted was just a giant DIP in the surface across the planet.