Comment on THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS

rekabis@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Spheroids are definitively spherical, otherwise they wouldn’t call them that.

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not true. For instance, a humanoid is specifically something that is not human, but human-like. An oval is not a circle, but maybe it’s a “circloid”.

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• pancakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My favorite type of sphere.

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• Jolteon@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Technically it’s a shape defined by the EGM96 coefficients.

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• amon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Close enough

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