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From: COK@PSUVMA.BITNET (R. W. Clark to the masses)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage,alt.flame
Subject: Flat Earth drivel
Message-ID: <27455COK@PSUVMA>
Date: 12 Dec 87 20:58:04 GMT
Organization: The Pennsylvania State University - Computation Center
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In article <9796@shemp.UCLA.EDU>, troly@CS.UCLA.EDU 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.  All you have to do is take the angle
>>of the sun to the earth in relation to two lines (preferably
>>perpendicular).  Like, angle of sun to earth along longitudinal and
>>latitudinal lines (ie north-south and east-west).
>>
>>Do this at three points widely separated (same hemisphere) at the same
>                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>time on the same day and look at the data you get.  The discrepancies
>>in the data will give you the angles necessary to project to the
>>center of the earth.
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>HO! HO! HO! Just because you believe in this round earth silliness doesn't
>mean you can use circular (spherical? :-)) reasoning. This technique you
>describe (which was used by Eratosthenes) gives you the diameter of the
>earth *assuming* that the earth is spherical.
>
>It is ironic that round earthers always resort to simple fallacies involving
>geometry, when geometry is the arena in which the chaos of modern round earth
[POP----------------------------GLITCH!] (to quote daegin@csd4.milw.wisc.edu)
     
Hey, Bret!  Have you ever been up in an airplane before?  Try it sometime, it
could change your perspective somewhat.  Though, really, what you could use
is a twenty point addition to your IQ.
     
There are those movies from the Moon.
     
Of course, they're made by the Evil Round-Earth Conspiracy Cartel, right?
     
They got Steven Spielberg and ILM to make this really great movie, which cost
several million dollars, just to convince you personally that the Earth's
round.  Then they tied you down and gave you electroshock therapy, and had the
CIA do LSD experiments on you to brainwash you, right?
     
They probably did.  That's why you're such a brain-damaged moron now.
     
Ever flown around the world, Bret?  Very probably not.  Bye bye.
     
     
>                /
>Bret Jolly (Bo'-ret Tro Ly)  Mathemagus   LA Platygaean Society
>             .
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