[adolph]

> Fact: the Earth is an oblate spheroid

Is that really a Fact? Or is the sphere-ness of Earth a mental artifact, a simple model used to work around humans' limited perception of spacetime?

[krapp]

It is really a fact. It's a provable fact. It's a fact that was proven thousands of years ago. Here's a whole-ass section on Wikipedia with evidence[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth#Effects_and_em...