Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bobbie Sellers Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:11:16 -0700 Organization: none at all Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <20240915a@crcomp.net> <20240916a@crcomp.net> <92767bb42bc741f813f2a5a131e0ce5e@www.novabbs.com> <7mCGO.45460$xO0f.10030@fx48.iad> <9ef268b5ee180b9b4955f632d5f60aff@www.novabbs.com> Reply-To: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:11:16 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="74a3c198f6e420da2184fde6b7ab3d52"; logging-data="1223481"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/wZuDXmI41dTDBjyxqvqlj" User-Agent: Betterbird (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZkQvojQwcMoB22A/q5yYLO0gnP0= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3234 On 9/20/24 08:36, Paul S Person wrote: > On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:31:40 +0000, quadibloc > wrote: > >> On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:53:42 +0000, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>> On 9/19/2024 9:55 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote: >> >>>> And you really don't want to know what we do to Mobious Strip >>>> Earthers.... >>> >>> Oh my goodness, there are really people on the intertubes espousing that >>> craziness ! >> >> Really? Other than as a joke? I'll have to look into this. But since >> there are people who believe in a hollow Earth with holes at the poles, >> I could almost believe there were Klein Bottle-earthers. > > A Globe with holes-in-the-poles is an object they can see and feel. > > A Moebius strip is something the can see and feel. > > On the Great Plains, the Earth sure /looks/ flat. Well, as long as you > don't raise your eyes up enough to notice the Rockies slowly getting > higher as you move West. > > But a Klein bottle has no physical analogue. So I would be /very/ > surprised at anyone believing the Earth is a Klein bottle. A Klein bottle is a physical analogue. Acme Klein Bottle Acme will sell you a very large Klien bottle. Just a search will bring you illustrations of the fine art of the glass blower. The earth may not be a Klein bottle but the Universe might be one. Or at least we have no way yet of saying exactly what strange geometry it follows. And I recall one SF story in a pulp magazine that discovered the universe was more like a toilet. bliss -- b l i s s - S F 4 e v e r at D S L E x t r e m e dot com