XPost: talk.politics.guns, talk.politics.misc, alt.science
On 3/13/23 6:00 PM, slothe wrote:
On 12 Mar 2023, "28A.K864" <28A.K864@noqbgba.net> posted some news:zNqcnfZsZ7OnFJP5nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@earthlink.com:
It has never been a "ball" - it's "oblate". The gooey center,
spun around, causes a slight bulging at the equator. Used to
spin faster, so it is less oblate now than a billion years
ago. However it will never be a "ball" because of the combined
gravitational pulls of the moon and sun. The old Greeks liked
to imagine "heavenly" objects as perfect geometric forms. They
were totally wrong, the reasons were complex, quasi-'religious'.
There are NO "perfect spheres" in nature. It's all bendy-wendy.
Hence the increased heat in the equatorial regions and one of the
catalysts for the recent weather extremes.
Um ... the heat has a lot more to do with solar exposure.
"The Bulge" gets near-direct exposure 365.25 days a year.
However "The Bulge" DOES kinda complicate what areas are
"highest" and "lowest" in the world. If you measure from
the center of the earth, features on "The Bulge" are indeed
"higher" and Everest is NOT the Top Of The World. Some
say Kilimanjaro...
They SHOULD have taught you that in school - unless it was a
really 'Woke', or "Fundamentalist", school of course ....
Now the bullshit YOU are trying to sell ... sorry, WAY WAY WAY
too much info out there confirming heliocentrism. You can even
watch it work from Mars.
My granny, MAYBE as a joke, claimed to be a "flat-earther".
"Just look, it's FLAT !". I suspect it was a joke because
she was high-IQ and well-read. But try to PROVE it ain't
flat and it can get a bit complicated. The "watch the
masts of the ships" don't cut it because atmospheric
refraction can kinda duplicate that effect. The old Greek
method was pretty good - drive stakes in the ground at
different places and measure the shadows.
Radio and TV.
Horizon (mi) = 1.23 * sqrt(Height (ft));
take an antenna 100 ft high. sqrt(100)=10; Horizon = 12.3 miles.
They'll blame it on "atmospheric effects" and/or
"ground wave" :-)
Also see earth buldge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-of-sight_propagation#Earth_bulge
Too subtle - SURE to be "atmospherics" :-)
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