by neufer » Tue Oct 22, 2019 4:10 pm
Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,
'Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!
All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 2:25 pm
APOD Robot wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 4:07 am
Uyuni Salt Flat is the largest salt flat on Earth and is so large and so extraordinarily flat that, after a rain, it can become the world's largest mirror -- spanning 130 kilometers.
In the absence of wind, I'd expect the Pacific Ocean to have that honor. And a great number of lakes must create larger mirrors. The flatness of the basin seems unimportant to the flatness of the surface!
A large
shallow pool of water certainly doesn't hurt the situation. The huge Pacific Ocean will always be affected by distant waves in the absence of local wind.
[float=left][b][i][color=#0000FF] Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,
'Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!
All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.[/color][/i][/b][/float][quote="Chris Peterson" post_id=296373 time=1571754350 user_id=117706]
[quote="APOD Robot" post_id=296358 time=1571717256 user_id=128559]
Uyuni Salt Flat is the largest salt flat on Earth and is so large and so extraordinarily flat that, after a rain, it can become the world's largest mirror -- spanning 130 kilometers.[/quote]
In the absence of wind, I'd expect the Pacific Ocean to have that honor. And a great number of lakes must create larger mirrors. The flatness of the basin seems unimportant to the flatness of the surface!
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A large [b][u][color=#0000FF]shallow[/color][/u][/b] pool of water certainly doesn't hurt the situation. The huge Pacific Ocean will always be affected by distant waves in the absence of local wind.