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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 22:11:06 -0700
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> Earth is an oblate sphere, no?
>

Earth is a "geode".  Geode is conveniently defined as an "earthlike"
object.  Same as with the speed of light and the length of a meter,
discussed earlier :)

Undergrad geography courses like this joke a lot :)

andrey