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From: Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com>
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Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a
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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:11:16 -0700
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On 9/20/24 08:36, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:31:40 +0000, quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com>
> 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 <https://www.kleinbottle.com>
	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

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