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Originally Posted by Lee
As do the majority, I think the Earth is an oblate spheroid, but to say that I know that would be wrong. I have not seen it, so I can only accept the word of others I choose to trust.
Remember this: the crackpot theories of old were probably cooked up by the brightest brains of the age and were accepted by the masses as truth because they had no means (or the interest) to verify those claims. In that respect, nothing has changed.
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Actually, the smart guys knew the earth was a sphere (or close to it), because, ya know, they did experiments. It wsas the idiot masses and such that were like LOL ITSA FLAT
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