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Jun 4, 2016·1 min read

My favorite historical revelation of science is the fact that we live at the bottom of an ocean of air. There are no sides to any kind of bowl that would keep it from spilling off the plate, so atmospheric pressure alone, constant at all level points (more or less), tells us the world is a spherical object.

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