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2007-09-20 -Short Attention Span Theater-

VIDEO: The View: Is the World Flat? "I don't know"

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Posted by Bugs Hupusose2306 2007-09-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Hey, cut her some slack. Maybe by 'the world', she thought they meant the space-time continuum. The discussion over whether space is flat or curved is a point of current scientific controversy.

Posted by SteveS 2007-09-20 00:34|| 2007-09-20 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 All the folks commenting were wrong. Flat and round are 2d concepts. The world is a 3d shape.

From Wikipedia:

The Earth's shape is very close to an oblate spheroida rounded shape with a bulge around the equatoralthough the precise shape (the geoid) varies from this by up to 100 meters (327 ft).[22] The average diameter of the reference spheroid is about 12,742 km (7,913 mi). More approximately the distance is 40,000 km/π because the meter was originally defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the north pole through Paris, France.[23]

The rotation of the Earth creates the equatorial bulge so that the equatorial diameter is 43 km (27 mi) larger than the pole to pole diameter.[24] The largest local deviations in the rocky surface of the Earth are Mount Everest (8,848 m [29,028 ft] above local sea level) and the Mariana Trench (10,911 m [35,798 ft] below local sea level). Hence compared to a perfect ellipsoid, the Earth has a tolerance of about one part in about 584, or 0.17%, which is less than the 0.22% tolerance allowed in billiard balls.[25] Because of the bulge, the feature farthest from the center of the Earth is actually Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador.[26]

Posted by 3dc 2007-09-20 00:57|| 2007-09-20 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 They pay this woman a great salary for her 'work' on the View. This is a clue into the liberal dogma. She doesn't need to be smart, she only needs to be different so she can be included.
Then we can all sleep soundly.

Posted by wxjames 2007-09-20 14:51|| 2007-09-20 14:51|| Front Page Top

#4 it was a fact, not an emotion, so she can't respond

Posted by Frank G on the road">Frank G on the road 2007-09-20 15:42|| 2007-09-20 15:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Contrarianism will be the death of the black community.

Posted by Kofi Uloluling7974 2007-09-20 16:32|| 2007-09-20 16:32|| Front Page Top

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