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nolabels

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4. The world is kind of egg shaped, they say

Reply to arcane1 (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 1, 2013, 07:45 PM

Dec 2013

If you spin a top (which is also egg shaped) the large side always will try to spin away from gravity, thus lowering the small side to the force of gravity. To me that seems to indicate the real top of the world is really the south pole, any idea's

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The world is kind of egg shaped, they say nolabels Dec 2013 #4

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