[Ramius]

I attended a lecture by Buckminster Fuller many years ago. at which he held up a 12” world globe and explained to us that the difference between the Challenger deep and the top of Mt. Everest was equal to the thickness of ink on the globe. Something I’ve never forgotten.

Yes, a vivid perspective isn't it? A similar example I recall was a professor that held up a billiard ball, saying that if it were expanded to the size of the earth its surface imperfections would be mountains and canyons many times the size of those of the earth.

[neverdem]

Yes, a vivid perspective isn't it? A similar example I recall was a professor that held up a billiard ball, saying that if it were expanded to the size of the earth its surface imperfections would be mountains and canyons many times the size of those of the earth.

I remember hearing the same example somewhere.