Nukehasslefan
Winger
So have you accepted yet that the "8 feet per mile squared" learned formula that you've been parroting since the start is not actually true because an oblate spheroidal earth is a different thing to a parabola?
By all means argue it in any way you feel.
If you want to argue it from an oblate spheroid ideal then you'd need to calculate it based on that.
Maybe Dave can do it.
What's it going to change?
I'm open to anything if it shows a reality.Or are you still clinging to something that is absolutely clearly inarguably wrong because you learned it and refuse to "open your mind" to the possibility that this formula you learned from a long-dead fruitloop authority figure is incorrect?
I'm arguing 8 inches per mile squared but I'm more than willing to argue another point of view as long as people understand that the point of view does not offer a reality on the so called global Earth scale...unless some actual reality can be shown from it...literally.
If you really want to argue for oblate, that would mean Your equator has to be a more severe curve than the sphere itself...right?
If I want to flatten the poles the rest of the ball has to curve a bit more severely.
It's not really doing you any favours to be fair.