The Earth is Round
This is just a short note to help those of you that are on the fence over whether the Earth is round (a sphere ) or flat.
I’m sitting at the Worsfold dining table, watching the sunset with KBBI on the radio. A cup of fresh coffee in one hand and a brownie in the other. We just had a small snowfall and the scene is truly a winter wonderland.
The radio announcer (who sounds like she is twelve) is reading the news and was coming up on the current weather.
She says, “Sunrise this morning was at 10:03 AM and sunset is, oh right now at 4:20 PM.”
I happened to notice that the sun was not set yet. In fact, it was just touching the horizon. My first thought was that the radio station had the wrong sunrise/sunset tables. Probably resulting from some sort of “computer glich”. Or a Russian plot.
As I was mulling over the many possibilities, it hit me. The station was correct (this was quickly confirmed online) and this added to the increasingly large body of evidence supporting the “spherical earth” hypothesis.
Question; why is this “proof”?
Happy New Year
So far I've reached acceptable proficiency at the following, in chronological order: Silversmith, infantryman/door gunner, helicopter pilot, fireman, carpenter, residential contractor, FAA Air Traffic Control Specialist and crotchety old retired guy. Currently, I'm learning to fly again and that is what this is all about. 7/7/2020 edit: As I have had the opportunity to reflect (old people do that a lot) on my actual proficiency level at the above occupations, I feel adjustments are in order. The term "acceptable" depends on the observer, their own proficiency and experience level. Acceptable to me might be woefully deficient to the master. I think it would be more accurate to claim that I have earned a living wage at all of these occupations but never got rich. Actually, I feel that I have gotten rich at the last one. I have what I need and am profoundly grateful for all of it. The future looks bright indeed, as I have learned to fly again. For that I have all of you to thank. Thank You!
I’ll bite why is this proof?