A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
TFE was a breaking point for the cult of the insane, it did some good, but they're all clearly insane.
I hold fast with my position in extremist satire that anyone who thinks this way should simply be terminated for the good of our species, call it eugenics if you want, i call it culling the catastrophe. (again, this is satire)
Of course it's not spherical, it's wider at the equator and lumpy
Unless you go in an advanced metrology laboratory, or look at Jupiter with a telescope, it's the most spherical object you will ever see.
Jupiter is quite more flattened than Earth due to how fast it spins and it being made mostly of gas.
If you want spherical, look at Venus... or, even better, the Sun (not directly, though, of course; use some kind of filter or reflector).
I'm not sure how true that is. It's smoother than anything else, but the degree to which it is oblate makes it less spherical than, say, a pool ball, doesn't it?
and lumpy
Barely. Shrink it down to the size of a pool/billiards ball and Earth is actually smoother.
Eratosthenes' experiment could just as easily prove a smaller, closer sun
The best proof is that you can look at the Sun and the moon with your eyes (maybe use a filter for the sun) and see them not change size throughout their path along the sky, which proves that they aren't getting appreciably closer or farther
What do Eratosthenes' proclivities have to do with astronomy
They also can't prove for sure that the earth is flat
Eratosthenes is a word I can only hear in Carl Sagan's voice.
But the earth is round, like a pizza
Mmm pizza balls