Sujet : Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat is a Flat Earther
De : psperson (at) *nospam* old.netcom.invalid (Paul S Person)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.written rec.arts.comics.stripsDate : 28. Aug 2024, 16:58:18
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On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 03:11:46 +0100, Robert Carnegie
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On 24/08/2024 16:44, Paul S Person wrote:
On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:00:58 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
Pearls Before Swine: Rat is a Flat Earther
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/08/23
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Oh no, they keep on popping up all over the place.
If the Sun actually travelled around the Earth, the answer would be:
one day
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But we know that the Earth rotates on its
axis in 23 hours, 56 minutes. (true)
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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.
Flat 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?
-- "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,Who evil spoke of everyone but God,Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"