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   From: PointedEars@web.de   
      
   The 'nym-shifting troll trolled as 'Durwood Rademaker':   
   > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:   
   >> Incorrect.  There are two equivalent terms for that surface: "rotational   
   >> ellipsoid" and "ellipsoid of revolution".  This surface is called so   
   >> because it is produced by *rotating* an ellipse around one of that   
   >> ellipse's major axes, or, equivalently, by having it *revolve* around   
   >> that axis:   
   >>   
   >>    
   >   
   > and how would you rotate that, since the ellipse is still there unchanged;   
      
   Once again: One rotates an ellipse by 180° around one of its major axes.   
   The surface that one obtains that is traced by all the points then is called   
   an *ellipsoid*.  Since it was obtained by rotation, it is called a   
   *rotational* ellipsoid.  It can be (and is) also called "ellipsoid of   
   revolution" because the rotation of the ellipse can be understood as all of   
   its points revolving in circles around said major axis.   
      
   > you mean a mark on its surface,   
      
   There is no surface before the ellipse is rotated/its points revolve.   
      
   > my butt, that's something completely else.   
      
   Which is why only you claim it.  Straw man argument.   
      
   > You don't know what you are talking about,   
      
   No, you don't.  Just read the article carefully.   
      
   > my man   
      
   I am not "your man".  You have been and continue to be a PITA in this   
   newsgroup (sci.physics.relativity) and others.   
      
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