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Re: Straight Roundness (was Re: Does God have a name for God?)
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:49:05 GMT
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:18:23 GMT, "Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com>
wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Robert Bevens writes:
> > On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:31:10 GMT, Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Ryan Farrington wrote:
> > > > First of all, I don't know if I am supposed to take this discussion only to
> > > > off-topic.debate or also have it cross-posted to general. If someone knows
> > > > better, let me know.
> > > >
> > > > God existed first, before anything else. He created all things, including
> > > > man, whom He created in His own image. Man, being sinful, created gods in
> > > > his own image. (see http://home.ifriendly.com/~fourfarrs/truth.htm and
> > > > http://home.ifriendly.com/~fourfarrs/truthfaq.htm) So God did not steal the
> > > > term.
> > >
> > > And the world turns round again...
> >
> > Not to get off topic...oh wait we already are, never mind. Does the
> > world actually turn around in a straight circle? I mean I know it
> > sorta wobbles and what not and that's how we get the seasons, but is
> > it how the earth is rotating that is changing, or is it just the axis
> > which has changed? Or would that be the same thing...hmmm...ponder
> > that for a bit.
> I'd much rather ponder what a "straight circle" is. A gyroscope undergoes
> precession, in that its axis of rotation "wobbles," but the rotation itself,
> relative to that axis, is pretty fixed, I think.
>
> Dave!
But when it wobbles would the axis change? I guess the easiest way to
test the theory would be to draw a bright red line along the equator
of a globe and give the ol girl a good spin and then see if the line
stays the same or blurs whilst it's spining.
Robert
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