Wouldn’t having so much more landmass on one side of the globe introduced a wobble into the Earth’s rotation?
Or is the Earth’s crust so comparatively thin that there’s not enough landmass to make a difference?
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I think the latter, but I’m not positive.
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water is freaking amazing. capillary action, the siphon effect, expansion when frozen, solvency ( is that a word? probably the wrong one. sigh. )
carbon’s nice and all, but where would we be without good old h2o.
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Gee, we’d have to rely on, say, ethanol.
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I guess it still does. We should call it that instead of “the Earth’s oceans,” then use Pacific or whatever when being more specific. Or Spacific.
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Holy moly—as of this post, it is raining (if not storming) in like half the USA, and these clouds have been building over the last couple hours, not dissipating.
EDIT: one hour later wtffffff
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At least the western half of the country is getting some much-needed rain in that second picture. That’s the – dare I say it? – silver lining to the cloud.
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yeah, the second pic was really surprising, Southern CA almost never gets rain
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Nepal apparently gets heavy rains too, but do you see them whining about it?
(I considered posting this in Random Silly Grins, on the grounds that a rictus is a form of grin.)
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I was okay till I realized they WERE IN A TRUCK DRIVING DOWN THE FUCKING FLOODED ROAD.
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Gotta look at it the right way: it’s a free car wash.
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e’rebody like “ho-hum, another boring work commute.”
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Dude. Spoilers.
“TGIF, amirite?”
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Nerds being nerdy with publicly available information is always the best of the Internet.
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Thread on the parts of France still recovering from WWI. They are still no-go zones because of heavy metal poisoning and unexploded ordinances.
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