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Old 02-04-2010
philpac philpac is offline
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Originally Posted by Marvin View Post
Erm, definately not.

Actually, the Earth is spherical...
No, not quite, it's actually an oblate spheroid i.e. it's kind of compressed from north and south, and bulges at the equator, due to the rotation of the earth.


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