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Photo taken of a Canberra;

https://xkcd.com/2992/

The sea level isn’t rising, the UK is dropping

Mito Man wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2024 8:25 pm The sea level isn’t rising, the UK is dropping

No wonder it's colder, we're further away from the sun now!

Mito Man wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2024 8:25 pm The sea level isn’t rising, the UK is dropping

One of my favourite bits of useless information is that the various cliffs along Britain's south coast - Cliffs of Dover, Needles, Jurassic coast etc - were caused in some part during the Last Ice Age when the weight of retreating ice over the north of England and Scotland tilted the entire country

I was reading the other day that everest is taller now as a river gorge undercut the peak and the tension release made it spring up about 50 feet.

ZedLeg wrote: Thu Oct 03, 2024 10:02 am I was reading the other day that everest is taller now as a river gorge undercut the peak and the tension release made it spring up about 50 feet.

Related fact: Everest Peak XV was calculated to be exactly 29,000 ft., but to avoid people thinking that they had simply rounded-off or estimated the calculation, they added two feet to make the elevation look more believable.

In the same vein the reason Denmark is flat as a pancake is because it got squished by the ice cover during the last ice age. It is slowly coming back up. In a scant few million years there'll be mountains!

It's a parody account, isn't it?

I mean, it might be, but they aren't wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Man_(2024_film)

Better Man is a 2024 biographical concert film about the British pop singer Robbie Williams, directed by Michael Gracey. Williams is portrayed as a chimpanzee, performed using motion-capture technology by Jonno Davies.

I’d be more interested in watching the life story of a monkey, played by Robbie Williams *

* as long as he doesn’t have to speak or sing