From: DPeterMaus@att.net   
      
   On 7/5/25 06:24, Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:   
   > It truly is distressing to see patriots and free-thinkers getting   
   > ensnared in the "flat Earth" nonsense. I suppose it is a case of good   
   > folks being lied to so many times that, after a while, they start to   
   > think that everything is a lie. That's a mistake, though an   
   > understandable one.   
   >   
   > I worked for decades as a broadcast engineer. The formulas we use to   
   > determine the coverage of radio stations work perfectly, and are based   
   > on (among other things) the sphericity of the Earth. If the Earth were   
   > flat, FM stations from Tasmania could be heard routinely and clearly in   
   > the Hollywood hills.   
   >   
   > We've known about the sphericity of the Earth since Eratosthenes'   
   > intelligent experiments 2200 years ago. When the Christians burned the   
   > great libraries and philosophic schools, they imposed vulgar Semitic   
   > fables on us, such as the "flat Earth." The rediscovery of European   
   > science and natural philosophy in the Renaissance got people thinking   
   > again, with Columbus's and Magellan's great voyages among the results.   
   >   
   > Every single radio station in the world, and there are tens of thousands   
   > of them, proves that the Earth is a sphere -- as does even the most   
   > basic understanding of our intellectual heritage.   
   >   
   > With all good wishes,   
   >   
   > Kevin Alfred Strom.   
      
      
      
      Anyone who understands gravity, were they to think about it, would   
   come to precisely the same conclusion.   
      
      p   
      
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