“The thing should be spherical. A flattened ovoid is already well on the way to collapse.”
You are correct, sir! When we would go into the shipyard for overhaul they always had to open the hull for large pieces of equipment to get off and on the boat. When the welders would weld the hull back into place they would take a LOT of time to measure and make sure that the hull was perfectly round. If it was out-of-round just a little bit they would have to undo then redo the weld until the hull was perfectly round again.
“Eliptical” is going to be a disaster waiting to happen.
Kinda like “moderate” Republicans....