Subject: Re: How far is it?<br/>
Date: Mar 12, 2004 @ 23:02<br/>
Author: m06079 (&quot;m06079&quot; &lt;barbaria_longa@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1654385568">excuuuuse me lowell<br/>
you were not silent but quite explicit here in the following extract<br/>
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& by one possible reading of it you do indeed appear to agree<br/>
cotopaxi & chimborazo bite the dust<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; If the solid structure of the earth were a perfect <br/>
&gt; sphere,<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; centrifugal force<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; from the diurnal rotation would cause our fluid seas <br/>
&gt; to <br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; pile<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; up<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; 27 miles deep at<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; the Equator, swamping everything there while <br/>
 </span></blockquote>leaving <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; &gt; the<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; polar<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; regions high and<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; dry.  Centrifugal force being what it is, the seas do <br/>
&gt; pile <br/>
&gt; &gt; up<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; 27<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; miles deep<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; there anyway, but the sea floors and the dry lands of <br/>
&gt; the<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; equatorial regions<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; providently bulge upward to precisely match their <br/>
&gt; swell!<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; Since<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; solid structure<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; and centrifugal effects on fluid must be in perfect<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; agreement,<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; the equatorial<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; bulge and the polar flats must necessarily spread <br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; broadly<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; and<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; blend gradually.<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; I doubt that the rate of bulging is constant <br/>
 </span></blockquote>throughout.  <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; I<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; would<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; expect the<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; rate to be greatest near the equator where the <br/>
&gt; &gt; centrifugal<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; force<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; is greatest.<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; If it were constant, though, that rate would be 477 <br/>
&gt; &gt; meters<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; per<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; degree of<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; latitude.  If so, then just a few degrees of latitude <br/>
 </span></blockquote>from <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; &gt; the<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; equator would<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; negate the effects of some fairly pronounced <br/>
&gt; &gt; differences <br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; in<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; relief.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>i just cant be sure whether the last 2 ifs are in series or parallel<br/>
<br/>
which might make all the difference in the world</div>