Re: The Flat Earth?
Ben Weiner (bweiner@electron.rutgers.edu)
22 Apr 1995 21:35:13 -0400
shelter@calvados.apna.org.au (Madhudvisah dasa Swami) writes:
> schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) wrote:
>[flat earth theory w/ North Pole at center deleted]
>> This is a troll, right? The South Pole has been continuously occupied
>> since 1958. It's the _North_ Pole which is only occasionally visited.
>I take your point about the South Pole having some people living
>there. It is certainly not completely vacant. My point is not,
>however, if there are people there, because of course there are, but
>would they notice? We see what we expect to see, there are so many
>examples. My point is if you travel to the South Pole and find nothing
>unusual, you arrive where you expect to and find your research centre
>or whatever, what need would you have to doubt your world view?
Madhudvisah, honey, I see you're posting from Australia. Have you
ever wondered why books and pictures of the moon and the stars which
are published in the northern hemisphere show a view which is quite
clearly upside-down, compared to what you see if you go outside at
night and look up? Think about it.
This article was egregiously crossposted. Followups have been set
to alt.sci.physics.new-theories - although perhaps discussions of
flat earths belong in alt.sci.physics.old-theories, which regrettably
does not exist.
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