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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat is a Flat Earther
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:58:18 -0700
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On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 03:11:46 +0100, Robert Carnegie
<rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 24/08/2024 16:44, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:00:58 -0500, Lynn McGuire
>> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> Pearls Before Swine: Rat is a Flat Earther
>>>     https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/08/23
>>>
>>> Oh no, they keep on popping up all over the place.
>>=20
>> If the Sun actually travelled around the Earth, the answer would be:
>>=20
>> one day
>
>But we know that the Earth rotates on its
>axis in 23 hours, 56 minutes.  (true)
>
>So, the Sun must go around the Earth either
>in about twelve hours, or one year.  I'd have
>to think about that, and I refuse to.

=46lat earths don't rotate. That's the context of the discussion.

But, if the flat earth /did/ rotate and the Sun rotated around it ...
yes, that would take some thinking to figure out.

Maybe even some Rocket Science, who can say?
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"