xkcd #3132: Coastline Similarity
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Hey! A bunch of the early Cretaceous fossils on each coast seem to have been plagiarized, too!
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3132/
xkcd #3132: Coastline Similarity
Title text:
Hey! A bunch of the early Cretaceous fossils on each coast seem to have been plagiarized, too!
Transcript:
Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: https://xkcd.com/3132/
It would not. The mass of the Earth doesn’t change, and angular momentum is conserved.
I was curious since mass would seem lopsided. I guess not enough. Thanks for answering.
My layman’s understanding is that the water mostly makes up for it, and that more wobble comes from the moon than any inconsistency in land-mass distribution