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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by a THICK FIRE. More on the general thickness of the "ground", especially on the oceans and at the thickest parts. Needs more about the actual data portrayed.}} | ||
+ | This comic depicts a map of the world, using the {{w|Winkel tripel projection}}, comparing the thickness of the ground, which refers to the {{w|lithosphere}}, to the thickness of the air above it, which refers to the {{w|atmosphere}}. | ||
− | + | In an inserted figure, Randall defines the thickness using three boundaries. At the top is {{w|space}}, defined by the {{w|Kármán line}} at an altitude of 100 km (≈ 62 mi). Below that is the atmosphere which goes down to the ground, where [[Cueball]] is standing, including the ocean down to the seafloor as indicated on the left side. Beneath the surface is the lithosphere, comprised of the Earth's crust along with the rigid upper part of the mantle, and beneath this is the {{w|Asthenosphere}}, the partially melted, highly viscous region of the {{w|upper mantle}} just below the lithosphere. The lithosphere is variable in thickness, averaging about 100 km, but the oceanic lithosphere is much thinner than the continental lithosphere (oceanic crust is thinner and denser than continental crust). The two measurements are between space and the surface, and the surface to the asthenosphere. | |
− | + | The map shades in the parts where the second measurement is thicker than the first. This almost only occurs over continents, and certainly only where the continental plates are located (which can stretch into the shallow parts of the oceans). But there are several sections, such as in the Caribbean and the Sea of Japan, where the ground is thicker even being below sea level. | |
− | + | Randall has mainly used a work by Conrad and Lithgow-Bertelloni from 2006 to estimate the thickness of the "ground", and he gives the reference to the paper [https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2005GL025621 DOI.1029/2005GL025621]. Basically, Randall has taken their map and shaded the blue areas. It is the second comic in a row with a citation, after the footnote in [[2241: Brussels Sprouts Mandela Effect]]. | |
− | Randall has | + | [[Randall]] always uses the Kármán line as the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space. He has previously mocked the alternative definition of the atmosphere boundary (at 80 km ≈ 50 mi) used by US Air Force and NASA in the title text [[1375: Astronaut Vandalism]]. That definition would, of course, have resulted in a significantly different picture where the ''air'' is thicker than the ''ground'' only inside small areas around mid-ocean ridges. |
− | The title text | + | The title text referrers to the ancient four {{w|classical element}}s earth, water, air, fire. The lithosphere, or ground, is earth, the oceans is water, the atmosphere is air, and fire would thus be the hot, plastic rock of the Earth's mantle. (Randall is likely referring to how the mantle is frequently represented in drawings as fiery red molten rock, even though the mantle is solid--none of it is magma or otherwise "on fire" except in small volumes at locations very close to the crust.) See [[913: Core]]. The water layer on Earth is never more than 11 km deep at the {{w|Mariana Trench}}, and thus cannot compare to the thickness of the atmosphere or the lithosphere. An expansive definition of "fire" to include the rest of the Earth below the lithosphere puts the fire layer at 6000 km thick, much thicker than the other layers. |
In [[977: Map Projections]] the [[977:_Map_Projections#Winkel-Tripel|Winkel-Tripel projection]] is the fifth projection which is linked to the {{w|Hipster (contemporary subculture)|hipster}} subculture. | In [[977: Map Projections]] the [[977:_Map_Projections#Winkel-Tripel|Winkel-Tripel projection]] is the fifth projection which is linked to the {{w|Hipster (contemporary subculture)|hipster}} subculture. | ||
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:Which is thicker—the ground or the air? | :Which is thicker—the ground or the air? | ||
− | :[The drawing shows a Winkel tripel projection of the Earth. The features of the main map is unlabeled, with only the outlines of the landmasses present. Various parts of the map are labeled with "Air" (four times) or "Ground | + | :[The drawing shows a Winkel tripel projection of the Earth. The features of the main map is unlabeled, with only the outlines of the landmasses present. Various parts of the map are labeled with "Air" (four times) or "Ground (5 times)." Areas marked as "Ground" are differentiated with gray shading. These are always over large landmasses or close to them. They cover most of North America (labeled), the northern part of South America (labeled), Northern Europe and most of Asia (labeled), Japan, Most of Australia and part of sea above, Western Africa, the part of Africa beneath Equator (labeled), and finally the central parts of Antarctica (labeled). Air is written on the East coast of America, in the Atlantic Ocean, over the central part of Africa and in the Pacific Ocean east of China.] |
− | :[Over | + | :[Over East coast of America]: Air |
:[Over North America]: Ground | :[Over North America]: Ground | ||
:[Over Atlantic Ocean]: Air | :[Over Atlantic Ocean]: Air | ||
:[Over South America]: Ground | :[Over South America]: Ground | ||
− | :[Over | + | :[Over central part of Africa]: Air |
− | :[Over | + | :[Over south part of Africa]: Ground |
:[Over Asia]: Ground | :[Over Asia]: Ground | ||
:[Over Pacific Ocean]: Air | :[Over Pacific Ocean]: Air | ||
:[Over Antarctica ]: Ground | :[Over Antarctica ]: Ground | ||
− | :[A small diagram is present in the Pacific Ocean left of South America. The diagram depicts several labeled layers of Earth and its atmosphere, listed below. Cueball, a body of water, and several mountains are shown on the flat surface part of the diagram, with the ocean floor lower than where Cueball | + | :[A small diagram is present in the Pacific Ocean left of South America. The diagram depicts several labeled layers of Earth and its atmosphere, listed below. Cueball, a body of water, and several mountains are shown on the flat surface part of the diagram, with the ocean floor lower than where Cueball stand. Above is a line representing the border to space. The line beneath the surface is much more curved going both up and down. Two double arrows representing the thickness of the atmosphere and the Lithosphere are drawn between the surface and the layers above and below. Another curved double arrow is pointing to each of these distances and it is marked with a question mark in the middle of the line.] |
:Space | :Space | ||
:Atmosphere | :Atmosphere | ||
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:[In the bottom right corner of the comic with gray text is a reference:] | :[In the bottom right corner of the comic with gray text is a reference:] | ||
:<font color="gray">Based mostly on Conrad and Lithgow-Bertelloni (2006) DOI.1029/2005GL025621</font> | :<font color="gray">Based mostly on Conrad and Lithgow-Bertelloni (2006) DOI.1029/2005GL025621</font> | ||
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