(Thanks, d. :)

Reader dan writes:

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Re: Reader: 'Antarctica is not a continent fol....

no amount of argument will quell the nonsense that surrounds this discussion.

i was a physics major at university graduating with a bachelor's degree in science. i was a pilot in the canadian air force for 5 years and a commercial pilot in the u.s.a. for 35 years.

use your common sense.

buy an inexpensive telescope (walmart used to have them for less than 100 dollars) and look into the night sky. do you see any bodies that are not round? the sun and moon, which you see without the telescope, are round; all the planets are round (the planets can look moonshaped through a telescope depending on where the sun is in relation to where earth, the place from where we are viewing each planet, is when we are viewing the particular planet at night). do you see a pattern here? nothing you see from the telescope is flat. all large objects that you see are round.

there are pictures of penguins taken on bare land that is not just ice. it is antarctica.

i flew an f101 to 54,000 feet from where a slight curvature of the earth is visible. i observed it personally.

you can believe what you want, but the earth is round. fostering some kind of lie about it serves no purpose.

1n 1988, a united airlines b747 flew around the world from west to east beginning and ending in the united states, stopping only for necessary fuel stops. at all times, the north star was on the left side of the aircraft. THIS WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE IF THE EARTH WERE FLAT.

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