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To: DUMBGRUNT
Earth-sized telescope?

With a mirror 8,000 miles in diameter?

37 posted on 04/17/2017 5:48:54 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Most that would intentionally click on this article are familiar with “FLATLAND”.

A good starting point before zooming off into three or more dimensions.
A fun read. And FREE.

NB: Warning, sexists viewpoints!
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/

Our Women are Straight Lines.

Our Soldiers and Lowest Class of Workmen are Triangles with two equal sides, each about eleven inches long, and a base or third side so short (often not exceeding half an inch) that they form at their vertices a very sharp and formidable angle. Indeed when their bases are of the most degraded type (not more than the eighth part of an inch in size), they can hardly be distinguished from Straight lines or Women; so extremely pointed are their vertices. With us, as with you, these Triangles are distinguished from others by being called Isosceles; and by this name I shall refer to them in the following pages.

Our Middle Class consists of Equilateral or Equal-Sided Triangles.

Our Professional Men and Gentlemen are Squares (to which class I myself belong) and Five-Sided Figures or Pentagons.

Next above these come the Nobility, of whom there are several degrees, beginning at Six-Sided Figures...

And worse...


39 posted on 04/17/2017 8:29:56 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Go Trump!)
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