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originally posted by: Plotus
I'm still waiting for an answer too.... Anybody ?
a reply to: musicismagic
originally posted by: GBP/JPY
It does appear all wrong
Africa is too far north
originally posted by: Plotus
Why no stars ?
originally posted by: EmmanuelGoldstein
Cool. CGI is fun to mess around with.
Isaac Newton first proposed that Earth was not perfectly round. Instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid—a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator. He was correct and, because of this bulge, the distance from Earth's center to sea level is roughly 21 kilometers (13 miles) greater at the equator than at the poles.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: ZombieZygote
Because the Earth's oblateness is very slight? Because in an image that size, the oblateness would consist of much less than one pixel and thus, not visible?
Isaac Newton first proposed that Earth was not perfectly round. Instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid—a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator. He was correct and, because of this bulge, the distance from Earth's center to sea level is roughly 21 kilometers (13 miles) greater at the equator than at the poles.
www.scientificamerican.com...
originally posted by: Forensick
I was about to say that at least china is helping prove the Earth isnt flat and that man landed on the moon.
I should have known better!
originally posted by: Grimpachi
originally posted by: GBP/JPY
It does appear all wrong
Africa is too far north
If it didn't look wrong that is when people should be questioning the validity of it. Have you ever looked at a true to scale map of the world? It looks weird.
originally posted by: RowanBean
originally posted by: musicismagic
Aren't there any stars?
Yes. There's one on the right... the one shining on Earth and Moon.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: ZombieZygote
Oh my.
Now what?
You never explained the absurd size of North America in that "satellite" picture,