Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

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:
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On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:53:42 +0000, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 9/19/2024 9:55 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

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And you really don't want to know what we do to Mobious Strip
Earthers....

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Oh my goodness, there are really people on the intertubes espousing that
craziness !

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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.

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A Globe with holes-in-the-poles is an object they can see and feel.
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A Moebius strip is something the can see and feel.
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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.
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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