And Mauna Kea is taller from base to peak, but the base lies underwater.
The world is a fascinating place.
Planets...
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The world is a fascinating place.
KenL
Tour Rookie
I used to work up there at the telescopes, quite a place.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Now that’s a cool place of work…
Robster59
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Robster59
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Of course, some may disagree on the definition of round.
Bunkermagnet
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So why aren’t asteroids round? There has be some, described as “the size of a small planet”
And what about those planets beyond our solar system, we still assume they are round?
And what about those planets beyond our solar system, we still assume they are round?
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
Their gravitational force isn’t as strong in an asteroid so they don’t attract surrounding material to form a round object. They don’t encounter much erosion either, in space, to ground them down. They’ll often be irregular shaped as they’re the forms they take from their birth or from bashing against other asteroids.
All evidence shows us that other planets are round.
They could obviously be different shapes if they collide with big enough objects but if left to form by themselves in the normal way, they’ll be round.
stefanovic
Medal Winner
No such thing as gravity.
There is only freefall.
If you believe conventional science we are on a turning world which travels at about 60,000 miles an hour through curved space.
Space is curved because of a large body, mostly due to the Sun.
But it doesn't tell what really happens.
The ancient Greeks were right to doubt the existence of time and motion.
In the case of Zeno's Paradox an arrow never reaches it target.
What thuds into the target is not the same arrow as left the bow, only one copy of many copies through parallel worlds.
What you perceive to be a planet is just one copy of it that has reached your eyes.
There are in reality an infinite number of copies.
backwoodsman
Tour Winner
OK, I've followed the thread and will ask the obvious question....
What makes you think they should not be ?
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
Sometimes what I perceive to be a post is just one copy of it that has reached my eyes. There are in reality an infinite number of copies 
You truly are one incredibly strange person.
stefanovic
Medal Winner
At last, someone has unified general relativity with quantum mechanics.
More please.
backwoodsman
Tour Winner
stefanovic
Medal Winner
No. I'm merely quoting respected theoretical physicists like Michio Kaku and Julian Barbour.
Suggest you also read The Mysterious Universe by James Jeans.
stefanovic
Medal Winner
If there are others, please supply references.
I forgot to mention David Deutsch and Carlo Rovelli, where it gets even too weird for me.
In the Copenhagen Interpretation (Niels Bohr) then there are only waves in the universe which become particles only when observed.
YandaB
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I am quite convinced that there is absolute correllation between my mass and my roundness!
The randomness and chaos of life, the universe etc suggests that they could be all sorts of shapes, until you read and understand why they are round. Everything being round is too organised, were there not a reason why.
It's something I had never thought of before but I think it was a cracking question for those not versed in this area.
There’s clearly a weird agenda to this thread which hasn’t been revealed yet. When answered, the OP came back with some weird nonsense about no friction and lack of gravity in space. I’m half expecting it to be to do with flat Earth.
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They aren't round, they're spherical
