Friday, February 10, 2012

who's at that cocktail party down there

.............................................................................................................The subglacial Lake Vostok


how far to the center of this geoid ?

about 8 k miles ...   2.5 miles /8000 miles
less then the distance between these 5 dots      (.....)

and between 8002 of em


or about twice as long as the length of this rank  and file of dots
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