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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Is the earth flat?

« on: 26/06/2016 09:31:12 »

No need to do any experiments for yourself. Aristarchus and Eratosthenes provided a heliocentric model and measured the diameter of the spherical earth, about 2500 years ago. Their work is widely published in elementary schoolbooks.

If you think things might have changed recently, talk to any surveyor, cartographer, soldier, sailor, pilot or astronaut, and ask them how they get from A to B without using spherical geometry. (The rest of us use numbered roads, so generally have no idea!)

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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Could deprivation of sleep by torture actually kill a person?

« on: 15/06/2016 08:40:11 »

People have died from something called Fatal Familial Insomnia where they don't sleep at all and by 6 months they have lethal dementia.

When I posed the question I had already taken that into consideration, (That is a disease) my thread poses a different question requiring a different answer? Torture?

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Alan