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Re: Flat Earth Society
Posted By: wintermute, on host 172.182.32.59
Date: Friday, August 2, 2002, at 02:00:51
In Reply To: Re: Flat Earth Society posted by Faux Pas on Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 19:19:23:

> > Even making an international telephone call ought to prove that the Earth is round. Unless Australians are all vampires, and are only awake at night...
>
> A flat-earther would just say that the sun travels in a circle, following the "equator". It just shines down on the Earth in the places it is overhead like a flashlight. When it shines in the UK, it isn't overhead in Australia, so the vampires think it is night.
>
> -FP

What kind of optical illusion is responsible for "sunset" and "sunrise", then?

wintermute

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