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THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Technically the Earth is not spherical… it’s an oblate spheroid.

[–] amon 2 points 3 days ago

Close enough

[–] PapaStevesy 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Spheroids are definitively spherical, otherwise they wouldn't call them that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Not true. For instance, a humanoid is specifically something that is not human, but human-like. An oval is not a circle, but maybe it’s a “circloid”.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

My favorite type of sphere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Technically it's a shape defined by the EGM96 coefficients.