On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Chris [iso-8859-1] L�er wrote:
Alphax wrote:
Oh, and did anyone mention the fact that the sphericity of the Earth is distorted by the tides?
Mostly by the equatorial bulge, which is rotational. The tidal stuff is secondary.
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. ;)
A fair comment, as long as you delete "scientific" and replace it with "political"...
-W.
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