maybe covered already, maybe not, and maybe yo u already gave up on the "lopsided earth" thing- i skipped most of this page- but how thick is the crust in relation to the diameter of the earth? how far "off balance" would the earth be if all the continents were lumped together on one side of the planet?
there was a thread here a few months back about how deep the deepest valley in the bottom of the deepest ocean would be if you scaled the earth down to the size of a basketball or something similar. i seem to recall that at that scale, the difference of the height of Everest to the bottom of the deepest hole in the ocean would be measured in the thousandths of an inch.
so, to use that analogy, putting all the land mass that pokes out of the ocean on one side would be about the same as the amount of sand that sticks to the one side of a volley when you drop it in the sand- in other words, insignificant. maybe an undrilled bowling ball dropped in the sand would be a better analog, since that type of ball is solid where the volley ball is hollow and filled with air.
hell, look at the distribution of the land masses on earth right now- it is mostly on about half of the surface, and concentrated more towards the northern hemisphere. the earth should be wobbling all over the place, but it isn't. how do you account for that? does having Antarctica with all that ice on the south pole somehow balance it all out?
Last edited by novaderrik; 08-September-2008 at 07:54 AM..
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