Alphax wrote:
It should also be noted that the sphericity of the Earth only applies on a macroscopic scale; the hills and valleys don't seem to spherical to me ;)
Oh, and did anyone mention the fact that the sphericity of the Earth is distorted by the tides?
This would be a common scientific approach to dealing with critics, I believe. Instead of addressing their concerns, one adds lots of irrelevant, complicated details and hopes to confuse the heck out of them so that they shut up. ;)
Chl