"Wolfgang Wieser" <wwi### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> Fernando Gonzalez del Cueto wrote:
>
> > Are the heights on a real scale? I saw Africa-Europe image and it seems
to
> > me that the elevations are exagerated, but perhaps I have a wrong
> > intuition.
> >
> As explained in the text above the images, the height (and the atmosphere)
> is scaled by a factor of 30.

Only 30?  Looks something more like 10,000 to me.  They say the earth, if
shrunken down, would be more smooth than any common man-made sphere.

>
> Otherwise Earth would be boringly flat ;)

I agree, and you do have artistic license for scaling, including your
extremely thick atmosphere.

>
> Wolfgang
>

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