We have a project to do. We haev to make a model of the earth thats not round
and prove it's that shpape. do any of you have any ideas? and if not have you
ever doubted that the earth was round?

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If your definition of "round" is "spherical", your project will 
be simple, because the Earth is *not* spherical.  It's an 
ellipsoid!  

<nephi smiles>

I always thought it was an oblate spheroid...

<Zook smiles, then ducks nephi's right>

   Make it a cube!  Please!

   Back when I was a kid, one of my best friends collected Superman
comics of all sorts.  I must have read a couple thousand of the DC
flavor over a ten year period or so.  One of the neatest concepts
in the Superman world was the "Bizarro" culture, where everything
was skewed.  They wern't bad, but they were bizarre.  Their
implementation of the Earth was a cube.

   Please honor the thought of the Bizarro world and make your
model a cube.

For whatever shape you pick, some promising approaches:
- proof by intimidation
- proof by guilt-inducement
- proof by inability of spherical-Earth advocates to deal with
  problems in their theory
etc.

- proof by reference to authority is also a good one.  Does Terry Pratchett
  count as an authority?

You can't prove its any shape because it isn't. Its fractal.

I theorize that the Earth is all shapes, depending upon your dimension of
perspective.

The Earth is flat. When they proved it was round, it was. But after all these
years of spinning it flattened itself out. And we're getting bigger too from
spinning. Thats why we have earthquakes all of the time.

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Whatever shape you think it is must be compatible with the shadow of the
earth on the moon, whatever shape you think that is. 

The darkness of the moon has nothing to do with shadow...
On the moon they have little bugs that reproduce like mad. And as the month
goes on they keep reproducing and reporoducing, until the end of the month when
the whole moon is covered with them. Then they all die out by self-imploding
from the gravity of the moon getting too close to the earth at the end og the
month. And we start all over again.

thanks for all your input guys I'll consider this stuff

I assume Proof by Rocket is not allowed?

But htere's the light bending theory of einstien!

#0: You should simply state that your culture tells you that the earth is
    in the shape of a pyramid and if the school system tells you otherwise 
    they are being oppressive and xenophobic. You shouldn't have to prove
    anything.

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YEZ!!!!!!!!!!

minor crisus it's due in 2 days (including today and I can't figure out if it
started out round how it got cpmpressed inot the shape of a football!

or a grain of rice, nevermind folks I'll figure it out!

I thought that the Earth was wider than it was tall.  

Am I wrong about this? 

no time to explain now I will later.

And I thought the earth was like a Pizza and we were but pieces of peperoni
in the great sauce of cultures...

uh... okay

i dont know how to chat interactively can you help me

sure, juss bend over and let me kick you in the ass for asking!!!.

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