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by cantrip 3073 days ago
Please respond to the point about the earth being round.
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The earth being round and its size is demonstrable without a rocket ship (and was demonstrated a couple millennia before anyone fired a rocket into space.[0])

But, in any case, even ignoring that, the analogy was inapt.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes