What's the highest mountain on earth?
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Think I've seen this before, that Everest is the highest above sea level, Mauna Kea the highest from its base (on the seafloor), and Chimborozo the farthest from the Earth's centre.
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Uluru - it may not look very big but that's only because it's a long, long way away.
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Is it Mauna Kea, Mount Everest or Chimborazo? And by which measure?
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
Is it Mauna Kea, Mount Everest or Chimborazo?
Given how relaxed hawaiians are, I'd guess Muana Kea.
Jörgen Andersson wrote:
And by which measure?
"Medicinal" weed per square mile.
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It's one hell of a walk from my house!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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It's one hell of a walk from my house!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Good thinking, just heading out now. See you there soonish!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Too bad that the highest known mountain is a volcano.
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Yeah, but my question was regarding earth. :) Olympus Mons couldn't exist here. The crust isn't strong enough, for the higher gravitation.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
The crust isn't strong enough
Señor, how do you call this delicious crust around the Chili you served me? That's a clay bowl, señor. :laugh: I don't think that gravity has anything to do with that.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Good thinking, just heading out now. See you there soonish!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.
Something to help you keep going.
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All tiny, compared to the majesty that is Olympus Mons[^] Which to the best of my knowledge is still unclimbed.
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Olympus Mons has been dethroned! It's only the highest planetary mountain in the solar system now. The new king is a central peak in a crater on the asteroid Vesta now. Good that Commander McLane did not hit it when he tried to land the fast cruiser Orion VII on Vesta[^], much to the delight of his superiors.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.
Something to help you keep going.
Hey, I know that road. Why are you sending him straight to Mordor?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.
Something to help you keep going.
Tolkein was from my neck of the woods, so he'd have been aware that Uluru is the world's biggest mountain, too!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Is it Mauna Kea, Mount Everest or Chimborazo? And by which measure?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Too bad that the highest known mountain is a volcano.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Is it Mauna Kea, Mount Everest or Chimborazo? And by which measure?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Anywhere in Columbia? :)
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Its not Mauna Kea is 4,207 m and Mount Everest 8,848 m.
That's "above sea level": Mauna Kea is over 10,000m "tall" if you count the underwater portion. "Tall" is a relative concept; it needs a frame of reference to be accurate.
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Too bad that the highest known mountain is a volcano.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
Mountain, AFAIK, are formed when plates headbutt or whatever they do. While volcanoes are made when we have hot shiny liquid coming out of a crack. This liquid cools down and one day you get a cone. Is that wrong? Apart from fancy choice of words, of course.
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Is it Mauna Kea, Mount Everest or Chimborazo? And by which measure?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Mt. Everest. 29K ft. above sea level. /ravi
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That's "above sea level": Mauna Kea is over 10,000m "tall" if you count the underwater portion. "Tall" is a relative concept; it needs a frame of reference to be accurate.
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Yeah, I see what you mean. It was only later that I read the comments below. Would've updated mine but as usual it was flagged! :sigh:
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Mountain, AFAIK, are formed when plates headbutt or whatever they do. While volcanoes are made when we have hot shiny liquid coming out of a crack. This liquid cools down and one day you get a cone. Is that wrong? Apart from fancy choice of words, of course.
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As if there were no cracks and volcanos where the plates headbutt. As Sheldon always says: Geology is no real science. :-) Edit (stolen from Wikipedia):
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Mountains are formed through tectonic forces or volcanism
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