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re: Your favorite weird fact

Posted on 8/22/22 at 10:44 am to
Posted by Swamp Angel
Georgia
Member since Jul 2004
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Posted on 8/22/22 at 10:44 am to
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If you circle the world with a rope near its equator, and then try and circle the world with a rope one inch off its surface at the equator....the difference between those ropes is only like six inches in length.


A similar question was posed by Neal Boortz a few years ago:

If you had a rope that was one mile in length greater than the circumference of the earth and you suspended it around the earth at the equator, would a person be able to walk upright beneath it?

By my math, there should be plenty of room since the rope would be suspended 840 feet above the ground.
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