If water seeks its own level, how can oceans conform to the curve of the earth?

[Luagsch]

Originally posted by: illusion88

Originally posted by: OokiiNeko
You guys crack me up!

There are NO pumps involved in the locks. All the water is provided by Lake Gatun, the largest manmade freshwater lake when it was created.

The Atlantic and Pacific are at different levels (by about 40 feet). That seems like a lot for water that is separated by only 30-40 miles. You would think the tidal action would be equal with two bodies of water so close at that point.

See, after seeing such movies as Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, I discovered that the gravity is different in different parts of the earth. Take China, there is far less gravity there. This is due to the fact that they are on the bottom of the earth and thus fall down (away) from the earth a little bit more then we do. Now apply this concept to the Panama situtation. See how it works out? Now go to sleep.

LMAO :beer:

 

[sandorski]

gravity

 

[Scouzer]

al gore

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: Sluggo

Originally posted by: Ameesh
lets all say it together "GRAVITY"

Gravity is what makes it seek its own level, not what makes it curve to fit the earth.

Hmm.... curves....


(Colleague just showed some Angelina Jolie pictures )

 

[Tom]

Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Because of gravity.

Maybe it's surface tension.

 

[outflat]

Maybe the water is level because the earth is a flat plane and we have been lied to and Gravity isn't as magical as they say it is.

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Thread locked because you wasted everyone's time with a necro post to say something this stupid.

Go home and practice. :thumbsdown:

Harvey
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[disappoint]

Because I facepalm at your posts at night.

 

[IronWing]

Here is everything you need to know about water, written in response to the question "Why does the Red River flow north?"

> There are several reasons the Red River flows north while
> many other rivers flow south. Water (H2O) is a polar molecule,
> that is, the positively charged hydrogen atoms like to hang out
> more or less on one side of the molecule while the negatively
> charged oxygen likes to hang out on the other side. This leads to
> a charge imbalance that causes water to want to flow toward the
> Earth's magnetic poles. Now you are thinking "but don't most
> rivers flow south?" The answer is yes and no, most rivers in the
> northern hemisphere flow south while rivers in the southern
> hemisphere flow north. There are two reasons for this. The
> first is that the centrifical force of the Earth's rotation is
> literally throwing water toward the equator. The second is
> that the warm temperatures at the equator lower the viscosity
> of water so that water flows more readily in the lowwer latitudes
> so rivers find it easier to flow there.
>
> Now back to the Red River. The Red River is located close
> enough to the north pole that the pull of the Earth's magnetic
> field (remember that the Earth's magnetic field converges at
> the polls) is strong enough to overcome the higher viscosity of
> the northern waters and the centrifical forces of the the Earth's
> revolution (the diameter of the earth is less in the higher latitudes,
> so the effec tis less anyway) so that water in the high latitudes
> flows toward the poles. We see these flows in the polar oceans
> as water has converged on the North and South poles to form
> ice caps. Another effect of this magnetic pull vs. viscosity
> /centrifical force struggle on the behavior of rivers is the
> belt of deserts wrapping the Earth in the mid-latitudes
> where all the water has been pulled away to either the
> poles or the equator.

A necro thread deserves a necro reply; I pasted myself from 1997.

 

[CPA]

nm, didn't realize this was a necro.

 

[sdifox]

2003 necro nonetheless

 

[olds]

2015 Nef nonetheless

FTFY

 

[who?]

How many people work in the center of gravity?