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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It would if the earth were a perfect sphere, but in reality, it's an oblate sphereoid. This means that an observer actually gets closer to the center of gravity as one approaches a pole.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Maybe. But everyone knows gravity pulls "down" and not "towards the center of the oblate spheroid" (nonsense word made up by """mathematicians""" to make us look like fools)