What is the correct term for a "flat" area of a sphere? On a "perfect" sphere, the surface is smooth. (Nice word, smooth. Kind of mellow bovine.) Say a water planet ~ you know, assuming they exist ~ the surface would be nearly flat, but you can't call an area that, because it's a portion of the surface of a sphere.
Sphere is a hard word. Sphere. It's like throwing a curve ball, with the curve at the beginning. It arcs.
Anyway, how do you say a planet is flat?
"Un-bubbled"?
"Wrinkle-creamed"?
"Not deviant"?
What.
[You notice you're Mr Science?]
I suppose a simple-complicated book about the geometry and terms of a sphere would be handy. Yes, it would. Hmmmm.
eg, Geometry For Gerbils.
That would help them, say if they found out that thing they're running around in is actually a wheel. How do we know, they don't think they jump on there thinking they're going to grammaws house?
They didn't invent the wheel, but they sure use it.
They probably think whoever invented the wheel, sort of like Time Travel, is either a god or the devil.
They seem to understand Up and Down and On and Off, so maybe they're ready to understand The Wheel. Parallels to our Fifteenth Century are obvious. But maybe only to the insightful, I tell myself.
'Course, if you get them to understand the wheel, the next thing they'll want is a couch. |
