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|    Bobbie Sellers to quadi    |
|    Re: The Flat Earth is Dead    |
|    02 Feb 26 15:15:38    |
      From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com              On 2/2/26 12:43, quadi wrote:       > There is now absolute and incontrovertible proof that the Earth rotates on       > its axis!       > I just read it on the PetaPixel site about photography.       > It turns out that cameras today that electronically compensate for the       > fact cameras are held in the shaky hands of human photographers... can       > only manage 6.5 stops worth of motion compensation based on their internal       > gyroscopes, due to the Earth's rotation!       > This limit isn't absolute, though. Cameras can overcome it by compensating       > for the Earth's rotation... if they have on-board GPS to determine their       > location and orientation!       > Of course, though, the Ptolemaic geocentric solar system is not disproved       > by this.       >       > John Savard               I am sorry John but the Flat Earth only existed in human minds       and it will still exist in those benighted realms. Proof has existed for       many years in multiply ways and the idiocy persists.        A flat earth would likely be truely dead i.e. without life if it some       how managed to exist.               bliss              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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