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HughBeaumont

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47. Not to mention the "flat Earth" metaphor doesn't even make sense.

Reply to madinmaryland (Reply #45)

Mon Apr 15, 2013, 10:45 AM

Apr 2013

A flat earth would be far less interconnected than a spherical one.

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