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From: "Jay E. Morris" <morrisj@epsilon3.comcon>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat is a Flat Earther
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:51:45 -0500
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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:
>>>> =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.
> 
> 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?