MikeD12: The Planet is Round'ish - In my young days, for some months in the mid Fifties I was on loan detachment team from Fighter Command To Coastal Command, at Lossiemouth & Kinloss. --- Our Volunteer jobs entailed flying as extra Flight Engineers in RAF Avro Shackeltons at 30,000 feet above the Arctic circle by Day and at Night for Airframe strain gauge monitoring in Flight, for which we were paid a good deal extra wages. - We flew over Ireland, & Iceland and witnessed the Northern Lights from there and the Orkneys and Shetlands. The Earth certainly looks Round at that altitude. - Very impressive and the experiences stay with one for life and one can see the Lights from The North of Scotland above Latitude 64° several times yearly but according to experts the best times are around Late September, October & November.
were you sitting on the wing.....to see all that.....just wearing a kilt.....???????? ........
I don't see how people can have opinions about it, there is only the obvious and proven fact that the earth is shaped like a geoid, a slightly irregular ball, a bit lumpy, a little bigger in the south pole area then the north.
Tenang: I don't see how people can have opinions about it,
Oh they do. To the point of madness (Which is why I put "Fasten your seat belts?" in the intro) I was on one site where it was debated (to put it mildly), for 3 months. Round vs Flat. NASA vs Anti NASA.
IMO, the people who continued to post that they are sick of the fighting, that they don't care, WON. Because the groups that screamed the loudest, realized they weren't convincing anyone of anything... & shut up
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