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Frant
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So, do you know the shape of Earth (without googling obviously)????
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garus
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Frant
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garus
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Frant
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garus
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Frant
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| Posted: Tue, 24th May 2011 12:36 Post subject: |
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garus
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| Posted: Tue, 24th May 2011 12:37 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 24th May 2011 12:37 Post subject: |
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| Frant wrote: | And as far as ball-shaped, it could very well mean:
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Yet it's still a ball, since you neglected to include sphere. The closest shape that would match the definition of Earth is a ball. Ellipsoid? Nope. Circle? two dimensional, thus nope. Rhombic? Nope.
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Meh, I still disagree.
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Sin317
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elliptic isnt fixed shape. Anyway, earth is larger at aequator and shorter at axis, so its elliptic.
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Frant
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| Posted: Tue, 24th May 2011 12:45 Post subject: |
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Yes, it's an ellipsoid. It's profile is elliptic(al). Or perhaps it's epileptic.
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Sin317
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| human_steel wrote: | | It's an oblate spheroid. |
| Quote: | | An oblate spheroid is a rotationally symmetric ellipsoid |
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| Posted: Tue, 24th May 2011 12:53 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 24th May 2011 13:10 Post subject: |
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its flat 
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| Posted: Tue, 24th May 2011 13:11 Post subject: |
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Is it called a circle no matter if it's 1-dim or 2-dim? I would call 2-dim a disc.
Reffering to sabins 2-dim circle btw.
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ixigia
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| Posted: Tue, 24th May 2011 13:17 Post subject: |
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Without googling? Hmm I'd go with a Torus..I mean a doughnut!
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| Posted: Tue, 24th May 2011 13:20 Post subject: |
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It's a wrinkly blob with tiny little biological infestations crawling in its surface.
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| Posted: Tue, 24th May 2011 13:25 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 24th May 2011 13:26 Post subject: |
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So far:
Primary school: people don't get order of operations
Secondary school: people think earth is a ball
Now we need something high school related to astonish the derps with.
| Quote: | | It's an oblate spheroid |
Or just an ellipsoid
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| Posted: Tue, 24th May 2011 13:40 Post subject: |
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Is it an oblate spheroid?
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