Xref: utzoo talk.religion.newage:1242 alt.flame:907 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!bu-cs!madd From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage,alt.flame Subject: Re: The flat earth Keywords: platygaeanism,creationism,astroloy Message-ID: <17269@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 10 Dec 87 21:37:25 GMT References: <9578@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <590@cos.COM> <4084@bellcore.bellcore.com> <17127@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <3838@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) Distribution: na Organization: Boston University Distributed Systems Group Lines: 19 In article <3838@uwmcsd1.UUCP> len@csd4.milw.wisc.edu.UUCP (Leonard P Levine) writes: >In article <17127@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@buita.UUCP (Jim Frost) writes: [proving the earth is round via measurements from different areas] >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. Yea, you're right. Didn't think of that. However, you could always time sunsets at different places using a universal clock. They would be roughly the same using a flat earth theory (although it would be interesting to know where the sun goes at night) while they'd vary considerably with a round earth. Looking forward to someone showing me how you could get the same results with a flat earth.... tiny jim madd@bu-it.bu.edu Home of Dribble, The Automated Dribble Flamer