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Re: Units and area.
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2006 Jul 17, 21:26 -0500
Not to pick on this great idea, but the earth is an oblate spheroid. It
needs a girdle, not suspenders!
Lu Abel
Red wrote:
> Greg-
> "Would that error be due to the assumption at the time that the Earth was a
> perfect sphere,"
>
> Ah, but we have the technology to fix that.<G>
> First, we apply these really big cables at the poles....<G>
>
> (The sad thing is, I bet we could get both UN and Congressional funding for the
> project.)
>
>
> >
>
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From: Lu Abel
Date: 2006 Jul 17, 21:26 -0500
Not to pick on this great idea, but the earth is an oblate spheroid. It
needs a girdle, not suspenders!
Lu Abel
Red wrote:
> Greg-
> "Would that error be due to the assumption at the time that the Earth was a
> perfect sphere,"
>
> Ah, but we have the technology to fix that.<G>
> First, we apply these really big cables at the poles....<G>
>
> (The sad thing is, I bet we could get both UN and Congressional funding for the
> project.)
>
>
> >
>
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