Comments on: The World is Round and other little known facts http://elissasmith.ca/archives/2005/08/25/the-world-is-round-and-other-little-known-facts/ Act as a personal journal/scrapbook for my life. Be a medium to communicate what I think is important to others. Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:47:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Doug Woodard http://elissasmith.ca/archives/2005/08/25/the-world-is-round-and-other-little-known-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Doug Woodard Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:33:21 +0000 /?p=47#comment-45 I've been trying for years to persuade the St. Catharines Public Library to get a globe and put it in the children's section. They spend something like 2 million dollars a year on materials and they don't have a globe. They don't see the importance. Do all the schools have globes? I suspect not. My father had a globe on his desk when I was small. As soon as I could understand the explanation of what it was I knew that the earth was round. But he was unusual; an airline pilot. There was also an octant that stood on the bookcase beside the desk... Doug Woodard St. Catharines, ontario I’ve been trying for years to persuade the St. Catharines Public Library to get a globe and put it in the children’s section. They spend something like 2 million dollars a year on materials and they don’t have a globe. They don’t see the importance. Do all the schools have globes? I suspect not.

My father had a globe on his desk when I was small. As soon as I could understand the explanation of what it was I knew that the earth was round. But he was unusual; an airline pilot. There was also an octant that stood on the bookcase beside the desk…

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, ontario

]]> By: alderman http://elissasmith.ca/archives/2005/08/25/the-world-is-round-and-other-little-known-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-43 alderman Mon, 29 Aug 2005 05:14:44 +0000 /?p=47#comment-43 i've long wanted to prove that the world is round by land and by sea. anyone can enter a glass terminal, sit in a metal tube, and exit into another terminal nearly identical to the one in which you started... i’ve long wanted to prove that the world is round by land and by sea. anyone can enter a glass terminal, sit in a metal tube, and exit into another terminal nearly identical to the one in which you started…

]]> By: Timothy http://elissasmith.ca/archives/2005/08/25/the-world-is-round-and-other-little-known-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Timothy Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:22:45 +0000 /?p=47#comment-42 That is so funny. I have had almost exactly the same experience. Except I didn't have a map. There was a pause, you know, before she (in Newfoundland) and he (in India) asked me "Do you think the world is round?" The truth is, I believe the shape of the world depends on the scale at which it is observed. The world is not round at the human scale. Especially if the human lives in a forest, or in a mountain valley. However (I think) the world becomes round at a larger-than-human scale. And who knows what shape it is as you get really really big (or really really small)... :) That is so funny. I have had almost exactly the same experience. Except I didn’t have a map. There was a pause, you know, before she (in Newfoundland) and he (in India) asked me “Do you think the world is round?”

The truth is, I believe the shape of the world depends on the scale at which it is observed. The world is not round at the human scale. Especially if the human lives in a forest, or in a mountain valley. However (I think) the world becomes round at a larger-than-human scale. And who knows what shape it is as you get really really big (or really really small)…

:)

]]> By: Matthew Carroll http://elissasmith.ca/archives/2005/08/25/the-world-is-round-and-other-little-known-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Matthew Carroll Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:09:47 +0000 /?p=47#comment-41 What? Next you'll be telling me the Earth goes round the sun and that we aren't the centre of the universe!! Seriously though, that really is an amazing story from Del, it just makes you think about how important so much of the 'important' knowledge and facets of modern life we take for granted and have assimilated into our world view actually are. What? Next you’ll be telling me the Earth goes round the sun and that we aren’t the centre of the universe!! Seriously though, that really is an amazing story from Del, it just makes you think about how important so much of the ‘important’ knowledge and facets of modern life we take for granted and have assimilated into our world view actually are.

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