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Fair. 'sucking' does work to describe the unloading. I guess the idea that the _speed_ of the erosion creates suction, is what bothered me.

Maps are here: https://topex.ucsd.edu/grav_outreach/ Yes, water does follow the gravity. I'm not a climate person, and it's a complicated system, but as I understand it, new melt w…

Thanks. There's another meaning of geoid, which is the shape of mean sea level of the globe. The height of sea level varies according to the local strength of gravity. When they fi…

This is correct. The earth is ductile at long time periods, and mountains maintain isostatic equilibrium as the tops are eroded away. The article quote is absurd. Source: my earth …

You could make use the pattern stem automatic variable in lines five and six to replace $(patsubst %.stdout,%.stderr,$@) with $*.stderr

Maybe because our whole way of life and industrial food production is adapted to the current conditions?

> I couldn't believe we were equidistant on either end of the 0 datum Longitude only affects the time of day, and thus daily temperature variations. Latitude is much more important…

Agree. Both parties should be able to see the other typing, or neither should. I feel deceived and foolish that I never knew about this. It's creepy like a one-way mirror.