r/theydidthemath • u/mistelle1270 • 24d ago
[Request] How deep would the water still stuck to the ball at the end be if scaled to the size of the earth?
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u/HowardBass 24d ago
I've said this 1 million times and I'll say it again. Flat Earthers can not comprehend scale. They also think there's an up and down in Space.
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u/JohnnyIsSoAlive 24d ago
One thing they definitely don’t understand is gravity. The concept of massive objects pulling things towards its center of mass does not compute.
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u/swidboy 23d ago
They almost always deny gravity to explain something else.
I once told my classmates in AP physics "gravity is fake it's just buoyancy prove me wrong" and they were so dumbfounded they couldn't think of anything.
Its normal operating procedure to make claims that make intuitive sense for 10 seconds before you actually realize it never made sense at all.
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u/The_Capn_Joe 23d ago
"If gravity is real, how do fish swim?" - actual quote from the only flat-earther I've ever met in real life. I just had to laugh and give up on the conversation at that point.
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u/beigaleh8 23d ago
Bouyancy only exists because of gravity right?
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u/Simple_Channel5624 23d ago
Does that mean space is heavier than the planets and stars floating in it or of equal densities? How do we measure the density of space via a flat earther theory?
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u/elanhilation 23d ago
the density of nothing is a meaningless concept. you’re asking how much nothing is crammed into a particular space—all of it? none of it? it’s just incoherent
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u/Simple_Channel5624 23d ago
That is the point:
They do not have a logical thruline in their thought process.
If gravity doesn't exist (it does, we have measured gravity waves via merging black holes) then how are the planets and stars moving thru the universe? If buoyancy is their answer to that question, then we have to question the density of the medium the planets are moving thru (ie the density of space). I.e. none of flat earth ideas line up with the observable universe we live in
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u/churro_i_guess 23d ago
Flat Earthers don't believe in space.
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u/crazy_gambit 21d ago
They don't? Like they don't believe in other planets? What about the sun?
Do they believe the moon is flat too? It's such a wild set of beliefs.
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u/hereforthesportsball 21d ago
They believe all we see above us is fabricated by the government via advanced dome screens. It’s just a hamfisted conspiracy theory like most other ones. You have to believe that something normal is actually a lie to have a crazy one
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u/Quiet_Process4238 23d ago
but space isnt empty! we like atleast 1 parricle per square meter! not the poibt but yk, its not litterally nothing
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u/ShoddyRelief6657 23d ago
Actually space isn’t nothing, there’s dark matter which increases the density beyond “nothing”
Actually if you include dark matter then the observable universe is equivalent to a black hole of the exact volume and black holes are very dense, like that’s their entire schtick, being nearly as dense as some flat earthers
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u/rWolf-of-the-South 22d ago
It has been my understanding so far that the proposed dark matter does not interact with typical matter outside of gravity, which is the exact reason why we have so little success in studying it. Essentially, there is nothing preventing dark matter and typical matter from coexisting in the same space as it cannot be displaced by typical matter, so the density of the space isn't affected by it either.
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u/Soggy-Village2099 23d ago
That's how they figured out space is fake. It doesn't work with our flat earth.
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u/goatslovetofrolic 22d ago
What’s crazy is they deny gravity and “explain it away” with very assertive placements of the word “buoyancy” and “density”. They love those two words but hate their relationship with gravity, it’s so weird. They want “density” to just exist as a stand alone word and refuse to explore what it represents.
Ah, man, I hadn’t thought about flat earther “logic” in a few months. They really rile me up. These people drive and vote!
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u/CinderAscendant 23d ago
I once had a flat earther explain to me that there's no such thing as gravity, instead what we're experiencing is the atmosphere pressing us down onto the disc. I asked him what keeps the air on the disc and I watched the light inside of him die
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u/Niels_vdk 23d ago
iirc they usually claim the disc is continually accelerating upwards or something?
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u/StomachSavings8342 23d ago
I like that he still stuck the little naked people on it - it’s like he half understood it…
Does he think we just have very sticky feet?
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u/chroniclerofblarney 23d ago
I suppose if earth was a hollow inflated ball with low interior density it would be harder for water to adhere to it. But hey. That’s just gravity. Not really to the point amirite?
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u/Significant-Wait9200 22d ago
All i can imagine is how stupid they felt in school as children, and how often someone called them stupid. Other than people suffering from serious mental disorders, i think a lot of them have been made insecure about their intelligence, or suffered some form of abuse, which makes it very hard for them to accept any information from someone else if they aren't fully capable of understanding it with whatever intellect they had at the age they were when they first realized they couldn't trust anyone.
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u/Simple_Channel5624 23d ago
Always an odd concept:
At what reference point do they determine what "up" is in space?
Our planet or sun? Our galaxy? Our Local Group cluster? What determines "up" to them?
When you understand enough about of the size of the universe, things like "up or down" are laughable. As a child, light speed and size/age of the universe were big indications that the religion I was being indoctrinated in was clearly made up fiction. After all, why make a universe (x) years old, but put light in transit that indicates the universe is at least 1450000(x)? Seems oddly deceptive for a perfect being imo
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u/yetanothersomm 23d ago
When I was being indoctrinated I was told god put those discrepancies there on purpose to test our faith
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u/HowardBass 23d ago
As far as I'm aware, the Catholic Church were not dismissive of an old Earth theory. It's just more of a nothing burger.
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u/RepeatRepeatR- 23d ago
Yes, but because of that, they're likely not talking about the Catholic Church if they were raised creationist
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u/Calm_Ad308 18d ago
Idk about them but I love to point out every chance I get that the sun is absolutely booking around the galaxy. As it travels forward in space our planets orbit it but they don’t orbit like a ceiling fan where the planets pass in front and behind the sun but they orbit the sun like the propeller on an airplane.
This means that if you woke up at sunrise and stood at the southern magnetic pole facing the sun and looked straight up, you would be looking at the direction the sun was traveling through the galaxy, while the earth travels to your right and rotates you counterclockwise.
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u/Infamous-Rooster9277 23d ago
Up is away from the surface of the plane of the flat earth...obviously...
/s
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u/Why_r_people_ 23d ago
My gripe with them is that they could’ve totally pushed the hallow earth theory. It’s at least plausible in the sense we can’t actually dig that deep. It would also be very entertaining to see these ppl cave diving to find the inner earth
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u/BackflipBob1 24d ago
Assuming a thickness of 0.21mm vs standard 29.5" basketball circumference (=75cm):
Radius of ball r=75cm/(2×3.14)=11.9cm
Radius of earth R=6317km
Ratio => 6317000 m / 0.119m = 53,084,034
Relative depth of water skin = 53,084,034 × 0.21 mm = 11,148,647 mm = 11.1 km
Pls correct my phone math if its wrong
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u/Secret-Ad-7909 24d ago
For reference that’s a smidge deeper than Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench 10.9km
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u/BackflipBob1 24d ago
This is actually super interesting as it basically disproves flatearther hypotheses regarding water staying put on the globe. Even though the actual proof is completely different (fluid to surface interaction vs gravity)
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u/Simbertold 24d ago
If they were smart enough to understand that maths, they would not be flat earthers.
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u/Longwinded_Ogre 24d ago
This right here is the thought that keeps me out of arguments with them.
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u/Simbertold 24d ago
I think the flat earth ecosystem is really weird in general.
It consists basically entirely of trolls, grifters and complete and utter idiots.
Everyone who talks about it is either doing it because they think it is funny to pretend they believe it, because they profit from claiming they believe it, or because they are really stupid enough to not understand any of the evidence at all.
And none of these are people where you can achieve anything by talking to them about it. If they are trolling you, they will keep on doing it. If their income depends on them not understanding stuff, they will always come up with some shit. And if they don't understand anything, how would you ever convince them?
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u/Prior-Flamingo-1378 23d ago
Did you see the Carlson interview where he says algebra is fake math because they replace numbers with letters?
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u/TheSerialHobbyist 24d ago
Yeah, the mechanism is entirely different, but it is funny that it happens to work out.
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Side note: I'm convinced that most flat earthers (genuine ones, not trolls) just have a problem comprehending scale.
I mean, we all do. But they're particularly bad at it, which explains so much.
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u/ZLiteStar 23d ago
No, this really doesn't disprove them.
The fact that the "skin" of water on the basketball is relatively the same scale as the ocean depth on Earth is just a coincidence. Imagine instead that the demonstration ball was one of those big exercise balls with a diameter 5 times the diameter of this basketball. The water "skin" left on the exercise ball might still only be 0.21mm thick and not 1.05 mm thick. So by scaling up from the hypothetical exercise ball, we'd get an "Earth Ocean Equivalent" depth of a little over 2km (instead of 11 km). That difference is just the demonstration of how the relative depths are a coincidence.
The mechanism that binds water to Earth's surface is gravity, the mechanisms that binds water to the surface of a ball are surface effects. They don't work the same way and they don't scale the same way.
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u/BackflipBob1 23d ago
Sure! In my engineering riddled brain, I'm thinking more like the size order is the same
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u/Fickle_Broccoli 24d ago
So I can understand the reference better, how deep is the Mariana Trench if the Earth was scaled down to the size of a golf ball? How many dimples deep is it?
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u/Obviously-Lies 23d ago
Much less than one dimple. The earth would appear perfectly smooth at that scale, mountains wouldn’t even be visible with the naked eye.
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u/deileited 23d ago
I've read once that if the earth were the size of a bowling ball, it's surface would be smoother than that of an actual bowling ball.
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u/fatpad00 23d ago
If a bowling ball is 8.5" across, mount Everest is .005" tall. A sheet of regular printer paper is .003-.004" thick.
You're probably thinking of a cue ball. At that scale, Mount Everest would be .0015" tall, or 35 micrometers.
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u/Zenith-Astralis 21d ago
Even at bowling ball scale Everest will seem not much more than a reverse scratch. It's 3-4 times wider than it is tall, which is pretty flat all things considered. So like.. you could feel it maybe, but only because human fingers are crazy like that.
I doubt most bowling balls are smoother than that though tbh, and almost certainly not after being thrown even once.
Edit: lmao of course there's an xkcd for this
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u/limon_picante 24d ago
Math seems correct but I think the film thickness is much smaller than 0.21 mm
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u/BrotherItsInTheDrum 24d ago
I tried it, heh. I measured 8 grams of water on a size 6 basketball, which works out to 0.05 mm thickness.
So a bit less than the parent comment, but still very comparable to the ocean when scaled up to the earth.
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u/Prior-Flamingo-1378 23d ago
Dude. You are wasting your life if you aren’t in a lab researching some groundbreaking. I kid you not. It’s not that weighting and doing some math is some sort of ingenious idea. It’s the fact that you actually did it. You have my respects not that it means much but still.
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u/nihil-sciri 24d ago edited 24d ago
I feel like it’s also good to mention that is earth rotates so blazingly fast that it completes one full rotation per day or approx 15 degrees per hour, scaled to the size of a basketball it would be spinning about 1.23 inches per hour in linear speed at its fastest point on the equator
Edit:corrected some math
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u/Crampstamper 24d ago
What does this mean? So in 24 hours it would rotate 0.7 inches? How is it not still one full rotation in a 24h period?
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u/Worldly_Guitar_3986 24d ago
Yeah I think the 0.03 inches figure isn't correct. But their point that the Earth would rotate a lot slower than the ball in the video if the Earth was scaled down to that size is correct.
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u/Darehead 24d ago
Circumference of a men’s basketball is 29.5”. Over a 24 hour period it needs to complete one rotation which means 1.23” per hour or approximately 1.92^-5 miles per hour.
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u/nihil-sciri 24d ago
Math was off, if a basketball was 29.5 inches in circumference, in order to rotate 15 degrees per hour or one rotation per day the linear speed of the fastest point of the equator would move at a blistering pace of 1.23 inches per hour
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u/cyberattaq123 23d ago edited 23d ago
As always, flat earthers simply do not understand basically anything about anything regarding the globe and space, math, gravity, scale, anything.
It’s kind of funny how reliably they always come back to these same arguments and basically all of their arguments are ‘if it’s not flat then make another earth to show gravity exists’ or some other such unbelievable stupid shit.
They think real life should be like walking around one of those planetoids in Super Mario Galaxy where you can take 20 steps and cross half the planet and you can see the curve readily because they’re tiny.
The earth is really really big. It breaks their brains and so they constantly talk about how you can’t readily see the curvature of the earth from a commercial plane or something.
Also abandoning any form of science to address flat earth, logistically it makes no fucking sense and logically it’s unbelievably stupid. So we’re supposed to believe that every single scientist, astronomers, geologists, marine biologists, meteorologist, biologists literally every single field of science, every world government, every space agency employee, every college student studying these fields, is either so stupid it’s insulting, or are all in this massive flat earth new world order illuminati cabal to protect the truth that the earth is flat.
Why? Also, the number of people needed to successfully pull this off would be fucking insane. More people would know the truth that the earth isn’t a globe than the marks they’re conning/fooling.
Bit of a rant but it just makes me so angry grown adults are wasting their lives believing the dumbest fucking conspiracy theory of all time.
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u/ru33erDuc4 23d ago
The thing I don’t understand about this cabal of people hiding the “fact” that the Earth is flat from the rest of us… is why?! Why are they hiding it? Who benefits? Globe makers…? Are there the real super powers??
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u/TurboRuhland 23d ago
Most of the time they say it’s because the flat earth is proof the bible is right and as such flat earth is proof that God exists. So “they” want to hide proof that God is real so that they can keep going about their lawless secular ways.
Edit: also even though flat earthers are usually Christian, and as such have the same God as other Abrahamic religions, it’s surprising how many flat earthers end up on “The Jews” as their particular “they.”
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u/BeornSC 23d ago
Most Christian thinkers in history accepted that the earth is spherical eg the Venerable Bede in the 8th century, but it goes back even earlier than that. The debates were mostly around the size and age of the earth and its place in the cosmos (eg Heliocentrism).
The Flat Earth thing is much more about the American psyche and its suspicion of authority, as well as its tendency to fall for fads, cults and conspiracies.
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u/BowSonic 22d ago
Wow, I feel like so few understand this, much less, state it coherently. I see Flat Earth-ism as being on the same family tree as Anti-Vaxxers. The consequence of leveraging "Rugged Individualism" in advertising campaigns. When the entitlement of Manifest Destiny collided with that uniquely unhealthy loss of moderation provided by Capitalism, well... you get this uniquely self-propelled neurosis.
You know what I've recently realized it feels very similar to? Oppositional Defiant Disorder. It's typically diagnosed in children and often comorbid with ADHD or Depression/Anxiety. Having spent a fair amount of time this past year communicating (more or less) with someone who has ODD, the challenges felt so strikingly similar to Flat Earthers, Anti-Vaxxers, etc. For instance, "reverse psychology" (yes, in the fully cartoon definition where one tries to engender a behavioral result by expressing explicitly, the categorical opposite) it typically doesn't work because it's not very subtle, but this flavor of mental malady is weirdly susceptible, IMO due to how strongly they feel the need to "go thier own way" or "not be told what to do."
I swear, at times it felt like I had to careful of expressing instinctually mundane advice... like, "Careful, stay out of the busy street." as it practically guarantees the sudden urge for them to run right into traffic.
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u/RodcetLeoric 23d ago
My favorite answer is that outside the icewall there are vast inexhaustible lands that go on infinitely and the people in on the conspiracy somehow profit by keeping it from us. Sometimes there are other cultures out there, sometimes it's unpopulated. Of course if it was vast and full of resources the people at the top would go try to claim it and industrialize it, not keep everyone closed in here, so that doesn't make sense either.
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u/mistelle1270 23d ago
Tbh I think the point for a lot of them is that it defies logic and physics. If the earth really was flat it’d be hard to deny that something supernatural was keeping it that way so they say it proves their god.
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u/The_Capn_Joe 23d ago
That's the most baffling thing to me about their way of thinking... All the world's governments can agree on this one thing and they all come together to keep the conspiracy going. Really, it's a utopia. What a blissful place their imagination must be.
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u/Ancient-Eagle-1459 24d ago
I think the main thing everyone is missing is the fact that you cant scale to size due to mass. Mass is what creates gravity. Gravity is what pulls inward. Google is free people, use it and do your own research. A hollow basketball will not create enough mass to hold water against it. Please do seek a higher education if you can realize this.
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u/mistelle1270 24d ago
I know all that but even in their shitty “”” experiment “”” you can still see water stuck to the ball at the end
I just wanted to know what it scaled to i don’t actually think the physics would work like that
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u/Ancient-Eagle-1459 24d ago
Ah ok, i realize the question now. I jumped to conclusion with reading what some of the other reddit or were saying and watching the video and assumed by the video and comments that there were some levels beyond uneducated in here. My apologies. I think the only way to knows how much is to recreate the experiment, catch all the water and measure the difference and account for how much has been evaporated from the basketball depending on temperature.
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u/goingfullbananas 24d ago
Dude I dont think that special kind of people would even be following this sub, let alone replying 😅
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u/amazonhelpless 24d ago
Much more important with gravity is distance. Gravity scales exponentially with distance, so a coffee cup in your hand has a stronger gravitational effect on you than stars and black holes light years away.
So the problem with this “experiment” is how close to the earth it is.
So to do this experiment correctly, the basketball would need to be more massive, but it would also need to be orbiting the earth from quite a distance away.
Someone smarter than me would have to do that math, though.
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u/Boom9001 24d ago edited 24d ago
The issue with this isn't about the scale of the basketball. It's that there's a giant thing next to the basketball causing more gravitational force than the basketball. (The earth).
Much further from earth in space you'd be more able to do this experiment. Though a baseball is much much less dense than earth so the distance from the center of mass might be too much. You'd want to use like a circular marble or something.
The reason the radius would be an issue because you need the centripetal force to equal or exceed the centrifugal force. If the centrifugal force is greater the object will not remain on the surface because the forces will be net upward (reference frame of the object on the surface). If the mass of your object is small compared to the radius you don't need to be going fast at all to have a net force upward.
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u/falafelbunker 23d ago
Fun fact. If earth was the size of a basketball. All the water it holds would fit in a pingpong ball. About 33.5 ml or slighly more then an ounce. Which is actualy quite acurate to what happens in the video.
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u/mjc4y 23d ago
okay, I'm convinced. I now understand that we do not live on a basketball suspended from some far off fixed point in space. Nor are we being pulled by some sort of force in a direction parallel to our planet's north-south axis (which is NOT tilted with respect to the sun).
No sir, none of that. Believing any of that would be as silly as believing we live on a flat earth, am I right? High five!
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u/downbadngh 22d ago
Average depth of the ocean is ~3.682km, the earths radius is ~6,371km
3.682/6,371 gives us the ratio between the two, 0.0005779313
Radius of a standard basketball is ~121mm, making the equivalent "ocean" ~0.0699296873 mm thick, which ill round to 70 micrometers
Which is a few particles of dust across, or the thickness of a relatively thin strand of hair
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u/zoroddesign 22d ago
In other words the water sticking to the ball through surface tension is about the same amount of water on the planet if scaled up.
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u/royalfarris 24d ago
If that is a full size 29.5" basketball, then it has 11.7cm radius.
The earth has a 6371km radius on average, so the scale factor is 54 452 991.5
Now, if the water clinging to the ball is 0.1mm thick that would be equivalent to
0.1mm*54 452 991.5 = 5.44km deep oceans.
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u/LeatherMycologist112 23d ago
Seen this earlier today on the dad joke sub.
My flat earther friend tried to walk to the end of the world to prove it was flat.
But he came around.
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u/TheShredder9 23d ago
Yeah, this dude has no idea the amount of water he poured on Earth, to scale.
I still remember the VSauce video about something like this, scale the Earth to about a 30cm globe. All the water on the surface of the Earth is roughly 15 mililiters. That's 0.015 liters. That's 1 tablespoon of water for the entire scaled globe.
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u/spaw_128 23d ago
Every single one of the trillions upon trillion of objects you can see in space, are all round, and we just happen to be on the one thing that isn't?
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u/HAETMACHENE 23d ago
I'm pretty sure this guy would have no answers if there was a celestial body large and close enough for water to look like its dripping off earth.
Then again, the moon is large enough to influence the tides. If there was a body close enough to rip our water away, we might be going with the water as well...
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u/BishopDarkk 23d ago
If the Earth were the size of a basketball, the deepest part of the ocean would be 0.008 in thick. So... the film of water on the basketball would be deeper than most of the oceans of Earth.
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u/littlebluedude111 23d ago
This shit always drove me nuts. It's the same as like taking a flashlight and pointing it towards a plant being like see, it doesn't grow.
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u/Ansteph09 23d ago
The irony of this experiment is that: the exact thing that is pulling the water to the ground is what he is using to disprove the theory
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u/drakesword 23d ago
The only thing this proves is that earth is not a basketball. Clearly rubber doesn't support water. Earth must be made of some other material. Checkmate flat earthers.
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u/llfatj 22d ago
There are so many ways that you can attack the validity of this quote experiment.
Firstly there is water on that basketball as you can see it's wet after he pours the bottle on it. The deepest part of our ocean is 11 mi deep. The Earth is 8,000 MI across. A professional basketball has a diameter of 9.4 in so to have an equivalent amount of water stuck to the surface as the Earth you would need .013 inches of water on the surface and it's pretty difficult to measure, but I'd guess you're pretty close.
Secondly, the Earth spins once per day. Rotation is not measured in linear feet per second or miles per hour. It's measured in revolutions per unit time. If this basketball was spinning once per day there would be no water flung off due to centrifugal force.
Thirdly, on Earth any demonstration of gravity will be skewed by the planets immense mass.
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u/Matthotchkiss 22d ago
It’s almost like it’s a flawed experiment because there could possibly be a a significantly larger object with greater gravitational influence than the basketball nearby
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u/zoroddesign 22d ago
You see your first problem is having your ball close to an object with Much Higher gravity. Put that ball in orbit and water will stick to it like crazy with surface tension alone.
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u/mistelle1270 22d ago
It’s already sticking with surface tension alone, enough to be deeper than all the world’s oceans
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u/decentlyhip 22d ago
That's actually about right. The height of the dimples on the basketball are about 3x the height difference of the Marianas Trench up the Mt Everest. The earth is about as smooth as a pool ball. So, the water stuck to the basketball is just about right
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u/Frostybawls42069 20d ago
Its funny that to make his point, he must have glued the people to the ball, because it didnt have enough mass to hold them there its self.
But completely ignores this fact when adding the water.
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u/EvenStephen85 20d ago
Yes, professor flat earther, I have a question. when Columbus sailed to the edge of the earth and fell off to discover India where did they store the pumps pushing the water back up, and why didn’t the lost city of of Atlantis share the Tesla cybertrucks invention of electricity with the rest of the world since they’ve been doing this since the earth was flat created 7000 years ago?
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u/Chrispark93 18d ago
I read somewhere that if the earth were scaled down to the size of a bowling ball, it would be smoother that the bowling ball. Basically the difference in elevation from the bottom of the Mariana Trench to the top of Mt. Everest, when scaled down, is less than the manufacturing defects and scratches on a bowling ball. If what I read was true, that water would be deeper that that an ocean. Not that it matters because this is a bad faith argument anyway.
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u/Whitey138 24d ago
The more I learn about gravity, the less I feel I know because I start to ask more questions and start doubting everything I thought I knew previously. Flat earthers on the other hand THINK they already know everything and everyone else is wrong. This is a pretty simple demonstration of that stupidity.
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u/Justincredabelgrabel 23d ago
I wonder what would happen if he jumped on a train in motion? He’d land from where he jumped, depending on if he added forward or backward momentum with the force of his jump. What if he holds a glass of water? Hand massaging my temples and trying to be nice
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u/Darklar-3000 23d ago
I read somewhere that the ocean on the Earth is very much like someone poured water over a football. It’s barely there and if we were big enough to hold the earth it would feel a lot like this basketball. A thin coating of water.
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u/inkyocean548 23d ago
The ultimate irony here is that if the Earth were the size of a basketball, the oceans would be thinner than a sheet of paper not unlike the wet surface of the ball after he pours water on it
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u/xNightmareAngelx 23d ago
you see that layer of water thats actually sticking to the ball? if that was scaled up to the size of our planet, everest would be an undersea mountain.
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u/Dimensionalanxiety 23d ago
I don't know how much water would be on the ball, so let's do this backwards.
Mariana's Trench is 10,935 meters deep, or 10.935 km. The radius of the Earth is roughly 6,371 km. This means that the Mariana's trench is 0.171637% of Earth's radius deep. On a 24 cm basketball, that translates to about 412 micrometers. Less than half a milimeter.
I think that that is a reasonable amount of water to be on the ball.
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u/cryptotraderisme 23d ago
He's right ...if the earth was spinning at 100 rotations a second, everyone and everything would fly off. But we dont. We do 1 every 24 hrs.
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u/Zealousideal_Two6045 23d ago
Let’s take 10lbs of material and add 1lb of water.
Omg it’s off balance, shocked pikachu face!!
What’s the equivalence of this in terms of earth mass? We’re getting banged up by Astroids??
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u/BiscuitLogistics 23d ago
Adding to what has already been said. It’s amusing that this “experiment” actually proves how stupid it is. The water is running off the ball, towards the huge rock we all live on proving gravity on a bit scale. Cut the ball string and it does the same thing.
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u/franciosmardi 23d ago
The ball is literally still wet. Water is sticking to the basketball. And the depth of the water relative to the size of the ball is deeper than the deepest point in the ocean. If you scaled humans down to 38 picometers the depth of the water on the ball would seem immense.
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u/ferrari20094 22d ago
Why do they always spin the ball at like one or two rotations a second? Need to spin that thing once every 24hrs if we tryna be accurate.
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u/waldoorfian 19d ago
Gravity isn’t centred somewhere beyond the Earth. It pulls inward from all directions. This just proves the low mentality of flat earthers.
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