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On 9/20/2024 1:33 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> On 9/20/2024 12:11 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I can't find any Moebius Strip Earthers, beyond a defunct Reddit
> sub, but [Hollow Earthers](https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-journey-to- 
> the-centre-of-modern-hollow-earth-theory/) are still around.
> 
> [Expanding Earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_Earth)
> is another abandoned theory, recently pushed by the [ObSF] well
> known late comic artist Neal Adams
> 
> pt
>

Just discovered that Neal Adam's Youtube channel still exists.
https://www.youtube.com/user/nealadamsdotcom
Behold the madness!

pt