(May 20, 2009 at 3:33 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Secondly, if anything can be said to "hang" the Earth, it would be the Sun. The Sun's gravitational pull (which you can describe as a kind of string connected the two bodies) is what keeps the Earth in orbit.
Yeah I've heard bollocks like that, the Earth is a circle blah, blah, blah ... I usually respond by telling them the Earth is not a circle, it's a sphere and if they try to claim it says that I tell them it's rather more technically correct to say it's an oblate spheroid, LOL.
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