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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.comics.strips Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat is a Flat Earther Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:58:18 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: <45iucj1ceqkibla5bik0tq1jqr34tmcrq6@4ax.com> References: <7tvjcj1le187eiip8lsfmv6625jcpucmsd@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:58:20 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3b9bb9dd99e89da7d4431d0c1ac947c1"; logging-data="3720410"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18nSD55PsV1wuWjJtePuSBol6WubyDydRI=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1M0v0v86a/PNRub2MPixk/+qF9c= Bytes: 2185 On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 03:11:46 +0100, Robert Carnegie wrote: >On 24/08/2024 16:44, Paul S Person wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:00:58 -0500, Lynn McGuire >> 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.'"