I can't even imagine how difficult this is
Fun fact: Shrinking the Earth down to the size of a snooker ball, our little blue-green planet would be even smoother than it.
Are you sure about that?
That picture isn't to scale. The image is 1600x1600, so the earth in there might be 1200x1200 and one pixel would be 10km... from the bottom of the ocean to the top of Everest would be two pixels.
You are correct, I apologize for the misleading picture.
The billard ball topic is extensively discussed here: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/08/ten-things-you-dont-know-about-the-earth/
tl;dr: "If you measure between the north and south poles, the Earth?s diameter is 12,713.6 km. If you measure across the Equator it?s 12,756.2 km, a difference of about 42.6 kilometers. Uh-oh! That?s more than our tolerance for a billiard ball. So the Earth is smooth enough, but not round enough, to qualify as a billiard ball."
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How the hell does that thing get airborne?
C-5 Galaxy [75m] (C-130 Hercules [30m] for scale)
How the hell does that thing get airborne?