> A vast expanse of the Indian Ocean is a staggering 100 meters lower than the global average sea level because of a major dip in Earth’s gravity.
who would write such a gibberish in a scientific magazine?
who would write such a gibberish in a scientific magazine?
EDIT: also, in case of Indian Ocean, it is not a hole, just slightly different curvature.
(other than perhaps being counter-intuitive- you would expect low gravity to cause high sea level)
"The geoid can be as low as 106 meters (350 feet) below the ellipsoid or as high as 85 meters (280 feet) above."[1]
[1] https://www2.csr.utexas.edu/grace/gravity/gravity_definition...
In this case it’s 106m away from a perfect circle. Almost nothing compared to 20km, but a real thing.
one might argue that sth like that shouldn't show up on the hn front page. but maybe the meta message and discussion of the quality of sa journalism is worth the +31 points.
You quoted it yourself:
"the sea level of the Indian Ocean over the hole is a whopping 106 meters lower than the global average"
We already know that sea level isn't a uniform height. If it were tides wouldn't be a thing. The various ocean's waters are going to be at different levels.
> i mean isn't sea level always 0m by definition?
You could make the same argument for ground level but we know that's not uniform.
Or even a small model. AI generated news was a thing well before anyone heard of transformer models.
Wikipedia gives this, from 2012, as the citation for the claim "2006, Thomson Reuters announced their switch to automation to generate financial news stories on its online news platform":
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17512786.2012.66...