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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: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 09:01:06 -0700
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:23:00 -0400, Mark Jackson
<mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

>On 8/29/2024 12:16 PM, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:51:45 -0500, "Jay E. Morris"
>> <morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On 8/28/2024 11:21 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>> Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
>>>>> 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:
>>>>>>> =3D20
>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>> =3D20
>>>>>>> If the Sun actually travelled around the Earth, the answer would =
be:
>>>>>>> =3D20
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> =3D46lat earths don't rotate. That's the context of the discussion.
>>>>
>>>> They don't?  Is the perimeter a circle? square? rectangle? triangle?
>>>> polygon? irregular?   It can certainly still rotate in any =
orientation
>>>> (even providing the concept of day & night).  Is it occupied only on
>>>> one side?  or are both sides occupied?
>>>>
>>>
>>> If it rotated the elephants and turtle would get so dizzy you'd end =
up
>>> with celestial vomit everywhere.  Hey, maybe that's what comets are
>>> actually made of?
>>=20
>> First, it must be understood that I am not a flat earther. I am merely
>> talking about the concept.
>>=20
>> Second, thanks for reminding the confused that the flat earth usually
>> rests, ultimately, on a stack of turtles that go "all the way down" in
>> a magnificent infinite regress.
>
>Or on four elephants standing on the back of a single turtle, who swims=20
>through the cosmos - as in Terry Pratchett's /Discworld/ series, to=20
>which the preceding poster is clearly referring.

I have no doubt that such a long-standing belief has many versions.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"