Wooooooooah there!  Waddaya mean the earth is not flat!  Obviously you have
been misinformed:

http://www.flat-earth.org/

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flatearth.html

It must be your scientist's "bias" toward experience, observation, deduction
and reasoning that mislead you.  You're forgiven.

JGS

84 1.9L Westfalia
Bleu Schtroumpf

----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Pollard <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: speedo/odo error confusion

> It is obvious.  The earth is not flat. The mile markers are in a straight
> line, but  your bus must traverse the surface of a sphere, aka The Earth.
> The variance is because of valleys (high correlation) and hills (low
> correlation).
>
> -Matthew
>
> Matthew Pollard          "Racing with the wind and flirting with death
> Dept. Of Chemistry        So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath"
> University of Idaho
> www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
>
> >
> > Here's what I recorded
> >     my trip odo             I-70 milepost
> >        77.8                      0
> >       186.2                    100
> >       292.0                    200
> >       323.0                    230 (Colorado state line)
> >
>