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2018-04-07 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

A Third Of Millennials Aren't Sure The Earth Is Round, Survey Finds

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Posted by DarthVader 2018-04-07 00:26|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 What does it have to do with Social Justice and Gun Ban?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-04-07 00:32|| 2018-04-07 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 It's not. The earth is an oblate spheroid. But they don't know that either.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-04-07 00:54|| 2018-04-07 00:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe they could walk off of it, if they had actually been here to start with. Wich they are not.

Posted by newc 2018-04-07 01:31|| 2018-04-07 01:31|| Front Page Top

#4 They should have asked them which Interstate goes from California to Hawaii.

Posted by Roth LaDoad 2018-04-07 01:45|| 2018-04-07 01:45|| Front Page Top

#5 If they have a safety pin in their eyebrow, lope expanders, or neck tats.... I attempt to avoid conversation and eye contact if possible.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-07 08:31|| 2018-04-07 08:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey, its what you get when you allow unions (a wing of one political party) to run your indoctrination centers rather than education institutions.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-04-07 09:20|| 2018-04-07 09:20|| Front Page Top

#7 The meter was defined by the 1790 National Assembly as one ten-millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the equator. So forty million meters (or 40,000 kilometers) would be the circumference of the earth. That’s 24,854.84769 miles for those of you that like to think in miles. Pretty close to today's measurements.

Posted by Bobby 2018-04-07 09:50|| 2018-04-07 09:50|| Front Page Top

#8 The world is a WGS84.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2018-04-07 16:25|| 2018-04-07 16:25|| Front Page Top

#9 WGS84. PIMF

Posted by Alaska Paul 2018-04-07 16:26|| 2018-04-07 16:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Doesn't uncertainty about the Earth being a globe make global warming a bit of a stretch?

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-04-07 16:53|| 2018-04-07 16:53|| Front Page Top

#11 "Ummm...It's like a Hot Plate"

Posted by Frank G 2018-04-07 17:13|| 2018-04-07 17:13|| Front Page Top

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