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Comment by jonnycomputer

3 months ago

The criticism being directed at this comment because in fact most pre-Copernican scholarship believed the world spherical is missing the point.

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westurner  3 months ago

This. If we (without AI, even) extrapolate from the trajectory of a baseball, we would say that it would continue towards roughly the center of the earth but it doesn't.

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