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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

kurtcagle

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10. But then it would be saddle earth

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Reply #9)

Wed May 2, 2018, 12:42 PM

May 2018

I would expect an MIT student would be much more likely to troll with a hyperbolic paraboloid (a shape where the curvature is negative at every point on the surface). It's actually a pretty cool idea - you would be able, at certain places, to look up into the sky in Seattle and see the southern tip of South America about 8000 miles above you.

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