In a message dated 31/3/06 7:30:43 pm, kthayer@pacifier.com writes:
> I just don't have any
> more patience with all this guessing and supposing about how gloy
> "should" work better than gum to print on these surfaces, simply
> because it's more "gluey" in quality. Looking out across the flat
> ocean, I could assume that the earth is flat, because it "seems"
> flat; I don't see any curvature in the horizon as far as I can see
> from north to south.
>
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Perhaps a more appropriate analogy would be that of the duck.
If it looks like a duck.,quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it
probably is a duck.
Gloy and gum look and behave in much the same way.
Quite apart from that, the curvature of the earth can be easily seen on a
flat sea as the horizon slopes down at the edges. It is quite worrying to think
of the sea all flowing away from the middle.
Terry
Received on Fri Mar 31 13:02:21 2006
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