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4 Oct 2024 11:20:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-RAY OCEAN ...WHICH IS BETTER?  
From: Nicholas DePetrillo
Date: 21 Apr 1999 20:25:47
Message: <371e5e7b.0@news.povray.org>
me thinks your an idiot~
Steve <sjl### [at] ndirectcouk> wrote in message
news:371E4A36.3140D0C1@ndirect.co.uk...
> Matthias wrote:
> >
>  for all Gallileo fans: My ocean is really a sphere with radius ~
> earth-size
> > but you wont notice it around sea Level (you can proove this by
> > mathematical calculations if you like)
>
> > Matthias
>
> Excuse me, but how do you know that the earth is round, you've
> read all about it in books, and you've been told about it in
> Geography, History, Maths, possibly (depending on your age)
> University.
>
> Have you ever seen the earth from a great distance,  me thinks
> not, we've all been on airoplanes, and seen the horizin, how do
> we really know that it isn't flat, but looks curved because we're
> so far away from it.  The gouvernment, the Status-Quo want us to
> think that the earth is spherical so that they can charge us so
> much for "air fairs", imagine if people in the UK knew that
> Australia was only fifty milse asay, and that they could get
> there on a rowing boat, the gouvernment would lose a lot of money
> in taxes.
>
> So they tell us that if we dig for a thousand years we will reach
> china, when it really is just around the corner, have you ever
> met a professional pilot, (These people are stoges, and work for
> the state, they are all leading us up the garden path), just so
> that we will buy expensive items in the airport.
>
> Think about it.
>
> I don't hate the world, but I don't think much of it either.
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
>
>
>
> > blend ripples with any other texture pattern but Im not happy with it at
> > all! Is your source code a secret? Id like to see how you did it!
> > for all Gallileo fans: My ocean is really a sphere with radius ~
earth-size
> > but you wont notice it around sea Level (you can proove this by
> > mathematical calculations if you like)
> > Matthias
> >
> >  [Image]
>
>


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