World’s Roundest Object!
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
At about 1:15 the woman states that if the sphere were the diameter of Earth, the highest mountain and lowest valley would be about ?. I can’t make out what she says.
I think she says the difference between the highest mountain and the lowest valley would be 14 meters. It might be 40 meters, but I suspect the lower number is more likely.
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Additionally, (self deleted second comment). Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
It’s late and I have no idea why I’m bothering with this, but: Assuming the sphere to be D = 5″, if it were polished to a surface flatness of +/- .0000005″ (half a millionth inch) it’s possible she is saying that if it were expanded to the diameter of Earth its maximum surface variation would be 1.4 meters! Anyway, I’ll worry about this tomorrow.