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The perils of living on a spinning oblate sphere strike again! Software would be so much simpler on a ringworld ...

• echeese 7y ago
  Or an infinite frictionless plane in a vacuum
  • cmroanirgo 7y ago
    Or a discworld, sitting on the back of four elephants who are standing on the back of a turtle.
    • jmull 7y ago
      What does the turtle stand on?
      • connor4312 7y ago
        It's turtles all the way down.
      • a3n 7y ago
        It floats in space. Let's not get crazy.
      • bobsil1 7y ago
        The Turtle Moves
• fortran77 7y ago
  This is due mainly to our tilt, not our sphere-ness
  • dougmwne 7y ago
    On a spherical world with no tilt, what time is sunrise at the north pole?
    • pault 7y ago
      Approximately four billion years ago.
      • stestagg 7y ago
        Don’t you mean 6,000 years?
    • mongol 7y ago
      Depends on the angle of the ecliptic
    • nkrisc 7y ago
      Depends how tall you are.
  • vorticalbox 7y ago
    You're right, we need to straighten the earth up.