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echo: fidonews
to: Michiel van der Vlist
from: Bjrn Felten
date: 2019-08-14 15:58:00
subject: WWIII

 BF>>    It's the highest mountain above Earth's center, and since the sea
 BF>> level will follow the gravity, it means that this peak eventually will
 BF>> be the last to be submerged.

 MvdV> Not so. Sea level follows a surface of equal potential energy. The earth
 MvdV> rotation comes into play and causes that surface to flatten at the 
poles.

   Okay, okay, okay. So it's the centrifugal and not the gravitational force 
that causes it, but the end result is still the same.




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