QUICK!

...What's the radius of the Earth?


No fair figuring it out based on other stuff, or googling it or otherwise looking the value up somewhere. I want people who 'just know'--the way I know the fastest route to the local bowling alley.


For those of you who just know (and I know you're out there, King of the Geeks [Nay, Queen of the Geeks, obviously]) of what POSSIBLE use is this factoid to you?

The average distance from the center to the surface!

Happy Monkey;341280 wrote:

The average distance from the center to the surface!

Nice try. It has to be an actual value.

Oh, but don't worry HM. I've always felt that you were a MASSIVE black hole of a geek! and your rhapsodizing about calculus only seals the deal.

6378km, equatorial. Why do you ask?
(Full disclosure: I use this value at work.)

Pie;341283 wrote:

6378km, equatorial. Why do you ask?
(Full disclosure: I use this value at work.)

I knew the Geek Overlord would turn out to be a Geek Goddess! Well, good for you, Pie. Now---second half of the Q---HOW is this knowledge useful to you in your work?

I'm a Rocket Scientist.

Pie;341297 wrote:

I'm a Rocket Scientist.

Looks and brains. What a woman!

Brianna;341282 wrote:

Oh, but don't worry HM. I've always felt that you were a MASSIVE black hole of a geek! and your rhapsodizing about calculus only seals the deal.

Guilty as charged, but alas, numbers are my blind spot. As I mentioned in the calculus thread...

25000 miles = 2*3.14*r ~=
12500 miles = 3.14*r ~=
6000 miles ~= r

sorry, I almost always do the math. I don't keep the radius stored next to the route to the bowling alley because I use it much more infrequently than I do the circumference, and I remember the calculation because it has a permanently reserved spot in my memory as a tool.

Sorry I don't rate Geek Overlord. That's probably because I'm half Nerd on my Father's side.

Pie:

1 -- Congratulations.

2 -- Quick (like a bunny), what point on the earth's surface is furthest from the center of the earth? **spoiler** [COLOR="White"]Chimborazo in the Andes[/COLOR]

The highest mountain? Everest?

I'm with Bri. Though I'm thinking it's something more complicated...

Maybe Voyager 1? Wasn't there some dirt on her?

Another QUICK!

if you saw a child being dragged by an adult, the child screaming, "NO! You are not my (mother)/father"/whatever and you are on a busy street with loads of people who are ignoring the childe---what would you do?

Quick now.

reason I ask--so many witnesses to a child abduction say, "well, I DID see a little girl struggling against a man...screaming 'help'. I just thought it was a form of play." or similar.

BigV;341312 wrote:

25000 miles = 2*3.14*r ~=
12500 miles = 3.14*r ~=
6000 miles ~= r

I think there is a typo in that last calculation.

Whip out cell phone, take picture, follow discreetly, take second picture.

*hee hee hee heee..*

My Thread gathers ALL the geeks!

Soon they will ALL be at my mercy!



MMMWhahahahaha!

Brianna;341356 wrote:

*hee hee hee heee..*

My Thread gathers ALL the geeks!

Soon they will ALL be at my mercy!



MMMWhahahahaha!

Certain photos in the Dwellars NSFW thread put us at your mercy.

HungLikeJesus;341352 wrote:

I think there is a typo in that last calculation.

Yep. Algebra - A; Arithmetic - F. :sigh:

Just ya'll wait till I find my scratch pad w/figures. I mean this be important shit.. And I dun the ciphering? With the earth being 25,000 as taught in old days. Naugh + naugh = damnifino. Pie are round.
:lame:

BigV;341312 wrote:

25000 miles = 2*3.14*r ~=
12500 miles = 3.14*r ~=
6000 miles ~= r


Yep. Algebra - A; Arithmetic - F. :sigh:

Simplify the arithmatic.

3.14 D = 25000
D = 7962
R = 3981

Dat's what I was saying Bruce. Where in hell did I get 7926, not 7962? Transpose number I guess? I only went to 3.14, which has always been close enought for oilfield work. :tinfoil:

Brianna;341316 wrote:

The highest mountain? Everest?

Since the Southern Hemisphere is fatter than the Northern Hemisphere, there might be a mountain south of the Equator that's slightly lower than Everest, but whose peak is farther from the center of the Earth. Just sayin', ya know.

YES!

Mount Chimborazo, in the Andes, is a 20,000-plus-foot peak sitting on top of a bulge on the Earth. Mount Everest is a 29,000-plus-foot peak sitting lower down on that same bulge. Because Chimborazo is a bump on a bigger part of the bulge, it is higher.
According to Senne, Chimborazo is 1.5 miles higher than Everest! Or, if you will, 1.5 miles closer to outer space.
If you define "highest" as highest from sea level, Mount Everest is still champion.
But if you want to stand on the place on Earth that is closest to the moon, that would be Mount Chimborazo!

Brianna;341316 wrote:

The highest mountain? Everest?

Actually it's Mt. Chimborazo in Ecuador... right near the equator and thus the greater radius adds to it's relative height vs. Everest.:earth:

a thing on NPR about it
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9428163

Bri's first post brings all the geeks to the thread
and they're like, "I'm gonna reply"

takes one to know one...

pfffft!!!!!

Beat you to it Serpent.

cheaters never prosper nah... nahh!

Cheater? I got the information the same place you did.

yeah, but I posted first:
BS - 5:37
Bruce: 5:44

so there :p !

Whoops, sorry. Didn't realize you posted while I was composing the edit. You win.

barefoot serpent;341538 wrote:

yeah, but I posted first:
BS - 5:37
Bruce: 5:44

so there :p !

Huh. What a GEEK!

;)

Brianna;341559 wrote:

Huh. What a GEEK!

;)

don't you mean :love: ?

glatt;341608 wrote:

don't you mean :love: ?

yeah. I am a sucker for all Geeks, Nerds, Techies and Trekkies. It's so weird because I, myself, am so cool!

;)

xoxoxoBruce;341389 wrote:

Beat you to it Serpent.

barefoot serpent;341538 wrote:

yeah, but I posted first:
BS - 5:37
Bruce: 5:44

so there :p !

xoxoxoBruce;341379 wrote:

Since the Southern Hemisphere is fatter than the Northern Hemisphere, there might be a mountain south of the Equator that's slightly lower than Everest, but whose peak is farther from the center of the Earth. Just sayin', ya know.

YES!

barefoot serpent;341380 wrote:

Actually it's Mt. Chimborazo in Ecuador... right near the equator and thus the greater radius adds to it's relative height vs. Everest.:earth:

a thing on NPR about it
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9428163

xoxoxoBruce;341547 wrote:

Whoops, sorry. Didn't realize you posted while I was composing the edit. You win.

And in a dazzling come from behind victory, BigV! Please highlight the text in the post from yesterday just past "**spoiler**" for the photo finish...

I listen to NPR too, y'know. :)

I don't.
So the victory goes to Griff.