Xref: utzoo talk.religion.newage:1255 alt.flame:944 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ptsfa!ames!rutgers!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!ue4 From: UE4@PSUVMA.BITNET (Dan Schultz) Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage,alt.flame Subject: Re: The flat earth Message-ID: <27467UE4@PSUVMA> Date: 13 Dec 87 04:24:30 GMT References: <9578@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <590@cos.COM> <4084@bellcore.bellcore.com> <17127@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <3838@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: The Pennsylvania State University - Computation Center Lines: 24 In article <3838@uwmcsd1.UUCP>, len@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Leonard P Levine) says: > >In article <17127@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@buita.UUCP (Jim Frost) writes: >>About the flat earth stuff: It's easy to show the earth is spherical >>and also to find it's diameter. . . . > >Sorry, Jim, although I am not a flat earther, the same data can be >interpreted by assuming a flat earth, and locating the sun close to >the earth. It is easier to show with a figure. The classical experiment >was done by noting that on a given day the sun shone to the bottom of a >well at noon in one city (Alexandria?) and did not do so in another >(Cairo?). Draw a flat earth, two wells, the sun near the earth and >you will see that the same picture develops (no pun) as with a round >earth and the sun far away. Except that paralax measurements show that the sun _is_ far away (^95,000,000 miles (-:). So your "flat-earth/near-sun" solution isn't worth a load of fetid dingo's kidneys. ------- Daniel B. Schultz "Please report to the nearest disintigration booth. Thank you. Have a nice day."