02-24-2018, 06:33 PM
(02-24-2018, 07:20 AM)Ninurta Wrote:(02-23-2018, 06:19 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: I've heard some whistle-blowers say the Earth was more oval shape than round. I don't care one way or the other, as long as we have gravity that keeps my feet on the ground. I don't understand why people are in such an uproar about it.
I'm not sure why it would take whistle blowers to disseminate common knowledge. The Earth IS slightly oval - in technical terms, it's an "oblate spheroid". It's actually a few miles wider at the equator than it is tall from pole to pole, making it slightly oval in cross section. That's because the rotation of the Earth produces a slight bulge at the equator.
I didn't mean the whistle blowers were the only ones who knew, I just meant that's where I heard it. I should make myself more clear in what I post, I suppose.