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