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  • The Earth is Flat

    From Joy Beeson@jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid to rec.bicycles.misc on Tue Dec 8 00:05:22 2020
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    99.9% of calculations based on the assumption that the Earth is flat
    work out just fine.

    When I first noticed jogs in Indiana back roads, I assumed that they represented the wrinkles that appear when flat graph paper is smoothed
    over a sphere. It turned out that the jogs were seams where different
    surveys met and all the tiny little errors added up.

    A planet is a big place.
    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at centurylink dot net
    http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/
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  • From Frank Krygowski@frkrygow@sbcglobal.net to rec.bicycles.misc on Tue Dec 8 11:15:57 2020
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    On 12/8/2020 12:05 AM, Joy Beeson wrote:

    99.9% of calculations based on the assumption that the Earth is flat
    work out just fine.

    When I first noticed jogs in Indiana back roads, I assumed that they represented the wrinkles that appear when flat graph paper is smoothed
    over a sphere. It turned out that the jogs were seams where different surveys met and all the tiny little errors added up.

    A planet is a big place.

    Within ten miles of me we have a set of north-south country roads that
    feature a sudden east-west jog of about fifty feet. I assume that
    mismatched surveys were the cause.
    --
    - Frank Krygowski
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