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    Default The Sun isn't a sphere!

    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

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    Default Re: The Sun isn't a sphere!

    I'm not surprised, neither is the earth, is it?
    I am surprised that they thought that it's shape varied, though - that doesn't seem intuitive to me.
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    Default Re: The Sun isn't a sphere!

    Neither is a cotton ball, which is what I was always taught that the sun resembled in form....
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    Default Re: The Sun isn't a sphere!

    The key puzzle is why it is more spherical than it should be. I'm rereading a Brief History of Time, and Hawking comments that the sun was an oblate spheroid like the earth, so the flattening is not new knowledge.
    It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.

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    Cool Re: The Sun isn't a sphere!

    It sure looks like a big orange ball setting over Lake Erie to me.
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    Default Re: The Sun isn't a sphere!

    Nah

    Not round at all.
    It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.

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    Default Re: The Sun isn't a sphere!

    Nosce te ipsum

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    Default Re: The Sun isn't a sphere!

    It's also green...well sometimes!

    "And then I think , who cares, we're just anthropological curiosities a mere second away from turning into fertilizer, might as well scratch and listen to music we like." John B

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    Default Re: The Sun isn't a sphere!

    It is an entity. We are prone to it's moods. When the earth wobbled, it went down at October for a few days..Magnetic fields.Shh..( After 12/21/2012 I think the penguins will be in my yard. ) Fishing will be interesting! They ARE catch and release, right??!! Do they taste like chicken?
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