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I see your problem!...Looking from the moon it will look like a globe.
But once you get back to the planet, it will be flat again.
Reality is reality and not what scientists want reality to be.
This is wrong.It is shaped like like a dropped lump of bead dough.
I see your problem!
You think only immediate human-body-scale experiences are real.
Thats seems awfully hubristic: that you are the measure of all things.
This is wrong.
The planet shaped basically like a sphere.
(Though I dont account for that, on my tiny little portion, when I design a foundation)
I already said I agreed with this!I'm from the US. We measure things in feet.
A perfectly flat ruler would extend 1.5 miles
from my toes and the step down due to the
earths curve would be about a foot.
Using one mile instead of my foot still measures
out to be a practically flat surface.
???I'm quite sure you specify that the foundation is level on each end.
This does account for the curvature.
???
Not at all. They set up at near one foundation corner with a laser and shoot all the corners. The effect of gravity on the laser light doesnt remotely account for the full curvature. But its not significant, as we discussed.
I already said I agreed with this!
For most of our practical purposes, we can consider our little patch of earth, where we live and build things, functionally flat.
For certain other practical purposes, that doesnt work at all. My friend has built quite a career engineering satellite communications. His round-earth reality is no less real or essential than my local flat earth idealization when I design a building.
And the whole planet itself is basically spherical, obviously. No localized fudge-factoring changes that one bit.
Right?
Nice when your site is flat and level. Unlike most I deal with.Idiots. Have them set one in the center like real contractors do.
We can, and should, do both:That to my point that very few need to care what they cannot measure themselves.
It wouldn't pool in the middle, the water would flow over the side. The problem is the design specifications. You didn't explain whether you wanted 2 or 3 dimensional flat.And how well would that "fly" with your employer when the rain puddles in the middle?
Your career building runways is over and your company is dissolved.
It wouldn't pool in the middle, the water would flow over the side.
Not gunna pool.Nope. All 4 edges would be higher in sea-level elevation than the middle
if constructed geometrically flat.
Hes right (in this instance)Not gunna pool.
Not gunna pool.
I think what you and everyone else think of as a pool are two different things.A geometrically flat surface will pool water.
A crowned but flat surface will pool water.
And a crowned surface will pool water to some degree
due to surface tension.
Light groves will minimize the amount of water that
remains on the cement due to surface tension.
Not you, silly!I often am, yet people are always surprised...
How do you figure you'e going to get water pooling on a flat surface?Not you, silly!
Youre wrong.
And that is how people experience the world...even spacemen.
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