[time-nuts] Exceptions...

[Jim Palfreyman]

If the Earth were a snooker ball you would not be able to tell it is not a
sphere...

2008/10/27 Magnus Danielson <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org>

> Lux, James P wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 10/26/08 9:45 AM, "Burt I. Weiner" <biwa at att.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Except for the flat or pointy places.
> >>
> >> Burt, K6OQK
> >>
> >> At 05:00 AM 10/26/2008, time-nuts-request at febo.com wrote
> >>> At 10:44 PM 10/25/2008, Gretchen Baxter wrote...
> >>>> I went to http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
> >>>>
> >>>> I saw that it was 10:35 in New York but in Adelaide it was 1:05 PM and
> >>>> in
> >>>> New Delhi 8:05.
> >>>>
> >>>> How can that be?
> >>> The world is round.
> > In the context of time-nuts, where we denigrate mere 1 ppm accuracy and
> talk
> > about parts in 1E12 and more.. The Earth, being ellipsoidal by about a
> part
> > in 300, is hardly "round".
>
> OK... it's a fairly ellipsoid object... and not flat.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
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