• DarkenLM
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    41 year ago

    The problem is that in a flat plane with any amount of thickness, there will be always more mass diagonally than vertically, and it would still require a curve to evenly distribute the mass. I am by no means an expert on the matter, but from what I can recall, the only geometrical shape that allows for it is either a sphere or some complex hyperbolic curve, which is still not a plane.

    • kase
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      11 year ago

      the only geometrical shape that allows for it is either a sphere or some complex hyperbolic curve, which is still not a plane.

      Damn that’s too bad. It’d be really cool if the earth was shaped like a plane. /s