The Earth is lumpier than you think #shorts

And it's because sea level isn't so level.

We covered the geoid and how to measure sea level in a longer video about Mt. Everest's height, here:

[MLBfreek]

"images like this are exaggerated" right at the end, are you fugging kidding me

[youtubersdigest]

“The earth is smoother than the smoothest cue ball ever”
-Neil Degrasse Tyson
Those images were VASTLY exaggerated

[lucasl.s.]

"its true shape looks like this"... and then proceeds to say that the image shown "was exaggerated"

I love Vox but this video is a disaster

[Aerostarm]

So actually it’s completely round like I thought in the first place?

[geekdiggy]

so in other words it's a perfectly round sphere like you said at the beginning. thanks.

[siamesestormtrooper]

First, while it should have been pretty obvious that was an exaggerated map, you should always qualify your graphics when you first introduce them to not cause confusion, ESPECIALLY if you’re going to outright say “This is what it’s true shape looks like”

[Goat_Eye]

Relative to a billard ball, earth is smoother

[the_koschi]

In times of misinformation, why do you say things so confusingly, Vox? You show a STRONG exaggeration while saying this is „its true shape“ and write „Earth is lumpier than you think“ and people WILL understand „Earth looks different than it looks“, no matter if that makes sense or not. Because how should it look different than how it looks from space? Its true shape looks like it looks from space! 😂
For anyone wondering, and I don‘t blame you: The Earth of course LOOKS and IS almost perfectly spherically from far away. Contrary to what you maybe understand in the video, the mountains and bulge from rotation are relatively TINY, as you see from space. What they wanted to say is: „It looks from space as if the Earth is actually a PERFECT sphere, but its true SHAPE is a NON-PERFECT geoid that is almost UNDISTINGUISHABLE from a perfect sphere when you are far away. To see difference between perfect sphere and geoid, we exaggerate the differences extremely. The Earth is NOT lumpier than you think, it is as lumpy as it looks from space when you are far away, and as lumpy as you think when you as a tiny human tries to climb a mountain.“ 😅

[grnlntrn]

"The Earth is lumpier than you think"....

*Right at the end of short*

"Images like this are exaggerated"

So it's not lumpier. Got it.

[KlerikerNero]

Didn't Neil de Grasse say the opposite is the case? That the earth is smother than the roundest object we can shape.

[brandonbaker]

If a billiard ball were the size of earth it would be more lumpy and rigid than the earth itself. Don’t get wrapped up into the belief that earth is this lumpy, the map shown in this video is not a good representation of how smooth the earth truly is.

[EvanHodson]

Geoid is a map of earths gravity, not its surface

[doitdevin]

Neil said it is the smoothest cue ball.

[samikshagoyal]

Ancient Indians called geography as Bhoogol (Bhoo means earth and Gol means round) 🙏❤️🕉️

[MaulanaMalik-fdew]

average mountain height 3km
average sea depth 3km
earth diameter 12000k

so 6:6000 would looks smooth

[orik]

The geoid is actually a very interesting thing to look into, but the setup for this video doesn't do it any good

[TheDukeOfWaltham]

Lots of people have gone to the trouble of writing "it's actually pretty smooth if you shrink it down" or "proportionally, it's rounder than a billiard ball"… But it is in fact planet-sized, and it's useful to know that, at our own human scale, Earth is not perfectly round and sea level can vary as much as 100 metres. It's not as bad as it would be if we lived on the surface of a gigantic billiard ball, but it's still notable.

[xXToga_EditsXx]

"Lumpy potato" I can't😭😭

[winter]

In reality the earth is actually smoother than the smoothest ball we could ever make. Yes there is in theory a 14km height difference between Mount Everest and the Mariana's Trench but the distance between them is so big nobody would notice. (This is according to Neil DeGrasse Tyson)

[abdx]

It's not exaggerated
It's very very exaggerated