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From: UE4@PSUVMA.BITNET (Dan Schultz)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage,alt.flame
Subject: Re: The flat earth
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Date: 13 Dec 87 04:24:30 GMT
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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.
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