How many miles is the circumference of the Earth?

[Spooner]

hmm?

 

[guyver01]

Ask Fermi

 

[guyver01]

or dont..


The circumference of the earth at the equator is 24,901.55 miles (40,075.16 kilometers).
But, if you measure the earth through the poles the circumference is a bit shorter - 24,859.82 miles (40,008 km). This the earth is a tad wider than it is tall, giving it a slight bulge at the equator. This shape is known as an ellipsoid or more properly, geoid (earth-like).

 

[Placer14]

Is it longer at the equator because of centrifugal force pushing water outward?

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: Placer14
Is it longer at the equator because of centrifugal force pushing water outward?

The "centrifugal force" pushes everything outward.

 

[CraigRT]

isn't the circumference something like 16K miles?
I didn't look it up.. but I thought it was something like that.

 

[Anubis]

its about 25K miles

 

[Armitage]

Outer or Inner?

 

[Rob9874]

I thought it was about 24,000 miles in circumference, and spins at 1000 mph. Hence, a 24 hour day.

I'll be damned if you can find it on Google. If you search Earth Circumference, you get ways to measure it as a science project.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: ergeorge
Outer or Inner?

That's pretty entertaining.

 

[dugweb]

Originally posted by: ergeorge
Outer or Inner?

thats an interesting theory

 

[SoylentGreen]

You guys should look at Saturn in a telescope if you want a good example of polar flattening.

Or this will work

 

[Beau]

Equatorial Circumference: 40,076 km (24,902 miles)

 

[Beau]

Earth Facts from Nations Online

 

[dugweb]

Originally posted by: Kiyup
You guys should look at Saturn in a telescope if you want a good example of polar flattening.

Or this will work

whats polar flattening?

edit : my bad, i think i figured it out

 

[morkinva]

Originally posted by: Rob9874
I thought it was about 24,000 miles in circumference, and spins at 1000 mph. Hence, a 24 hour day. I'll be damned if you can find it on Google. If you search Earth Circumference, you get ways to measure it as a science project.

Right - so in that commercial where the guy keeps driving to see sunset after sunset, he's driving faster than 1000 mph

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: morkinva

Originally posted by: Rob9874
I thought it was about 24,000 miles in circumference, and spins at 1000 mph. Hence, a 24 hour day. I'll be damned if you can find it on Google. If you search Earth Circumference, you get ways to measure it as a science project.

Right - so in that commercial where the guy keeps driving to see sunset after sunset, he's driving faster than 1000 mph

I think it is closer to 800 MPH which is why we get an extra day every 4 years (Leap Years)

 

[Rahminator]

Originally posted by: Jellomancer

Originally posted by: Placer14
Is it longer at the equator because of centrifugal force pushing water outward?

The "centrifugal force" pushes everything outward.

Maybe if such a force existed in the first place, but it doesn't. There's only centripetal force that pushes stuff inward.

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: Rahminator

Originally posted by: Jellomancer

Originally posted by: Placer14
Is it longer at the equator because of centrifugal force pushing water outward?

The "centrifugal force" pushes everything outward.

Maybe if such a force existed in the first place, but it doesn't. There's only centripetal force that pushes stuff inward.

There is a centrifugal force which pushes things outward, but it's not technically a real force - it's a pseudoforce. It exists only in a noninertial reference frame. The centripedal force is a real force.

 

[SoylentGreen]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: morkinva

Originally posted by: Rob9874
I thought it was about 24,000 miles in circumference, and spins at 1000 mph. Hence, a 24 hour day. I'll be damned if you can find it on Google. If you search Earth Circumference, you get ways to measure it as a science project.

Right - so in that commercial where the guy keeps driving to see sunset after sunset, he's driving faster than 1000 mph

I think it is closer to 800 MPH which is why we get an extra day every 4 years (Leap Years)

So our day would be over 30 hours?
Yep it would be made up with the leap day.

 

[Placer14]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg

Originally posted by: Rahminator

Originally posted by: Jellomancer

Originally posted by: Placer14
Is it longer at the equator because of centrifugal force pushing water outward?

The "centrifugal force" pushes everything outward.

Maybe if such a force existed in the first place, but it doesn't. There's only centripetal force that pushes stuff inward.

There is a centrifugal force which pushes things outward, but it's not technically a real force - it's a pseudoforce. It exists only in a noninertial reference frame. The centripedal force is a real force.

HA! Welcome to my theoretical world. Population e.

 

[Triumph]

7.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg

Originally posted by: Rahminator

Originally posted by: Jellomancer

Originally posted by: Placer14
Is it longer at the equator because of centrifugal force pushing water outward?

The "centrifugal force" pushes everything outward.

Maybe if such a force existed in the first place, but it doesn't. There's only centripetal force that pushes stuff inward.

There is a centrifugal force which pushes things outward, but it's not technically a real force - it's a pseudoforce. It exists only in a noninertial reference frame. The centripedal force is a real force.

Yes that's why I put it in quotes. Centrifugal force is just the force of mass wanting to keep a straight path.

 

[Tom]

How much of it is water ?

 

[illusion88]

Its ten PM
do you know where you penis is?