Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!amdahl!cit-vax!elroy!jplpub1!billw From: billw@jplpub1.jpl.nasa.gov (Bill Weisman) Newsgroups: alt.flame Subject: Re: The flat earth Keywords: platygaeanism Message-ID: <5016@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: 11 Dec 87 01:56:48 GMT References: <9578@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <590@cos.COM> <4084@bellcore.bellcore.com> <17127@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <9796@shemp.UCLA.EDU> Sender: news@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov Reply-To: billw@jplpub1.UUCP (Bill Weisman) Distribution: na Organization: Jet Propelled Lab - Pasadena CA Lines: 28 In article <9796@shemp.UCLA.EDU> troly@CS.UCLA.EDU (Bret Jolly) writes: [...] > >Also, for the scientists who are not afraid to leave their childhood >prejudices behind them, these are exciting times. The foundations of platy- >gaean science are just now being laid. Wouldn't you like to join in? Only if I can get laid too. > / >Bret Jolly (Bo'-ret Tro Ly) Mathemagus LA Platygaean Society > . Gee, Bret, we've got this problem here that maybe you could help us with. (No, its not ending sentences with prepositions). Ya see, here at JPL there's this thing called the Regional Planetary Images Facility, and it's chock full of zillions of pictures of planets and moons and stuff like that, and, wouldn't you know, they're all SPHERICAL! (The moons and planets, not the pictures). I realize that it probably took hundreds of people thousands of hours and millions of dollars to fake all of them, but what the hell can we do with them when the platygaeans take over? I suppose we could truck 'em down the road to the Rose Bowl for the next swap meet, maybe get a few bucks for them..... Bill Weisman/JPL Information Processing Center/464 W. Woodbury Rd./Altadena CA billw@jplpub1.jpl.nasa.gov ..{any of the biggies}!cit-vax!elroy!jplpub1!billw "We'll have to shoot it point-blank at very close range" -- Reptilicus