• grue@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Hence the self-deprecating 🤓, LOL

    Anyway, I agree with you in the sense that shapes with smaller areas tend to also have smaller circumferences, all other things being equal. However, we can’t really be sure that’s the case for the Earth without actually computer-modeling it to check because, for all we know, the coastline might become more ‘wiggly’ as sea levels rise.

    Still not giving Trump any fucking credit at all, of course.

    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      the only way we’d get more usable coastline as sea levels rise is if landmass got “thicker” at higher elevations, but it does not.

      at a fractal level, anything can happen, but at a practical/macro level it’s pretty self evident; landmasses are smaller up high and bigger the base because gravity.