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Twelve-Inch Steel World Globe:
"I want to share with you a little exercise I frequently give myself in order to decondition my subconscious reflexing whenever that reflexing produces spontaneous behavior in ways that we know through experience to be ignorant, inept, irrelevant, and evolution-frustrating. This is my cosmological exercise. I think about the following: The planet Earth is about 8000 miles in diameter. The highest mountain is five miles above sea level. The deepest ocean is five miles below sea level. There is a ten-mile differential between the innermost and outermost aberrations in the spheric surface of our Earth. Ten miles in relation to 8000 miles is 1/800.
“If you take a twelve-inch world globe of polished steel, it probably has greater radial dimension aberration than 1/800 of its diameter. Astronauts cannot see any signs of humans aboard our planet as they approach the Earth from the Moon. They do not even see mountains. They see only a polished, color-marbleized ocean and continents’ pattern through the dominant cloud cover. The average height of humans of all ages is about five feet. There are approximately 5000 feet in a mile. If 1000 humans made a column by standing on one another’s heads, we could make a column ten miles high. Ten miles is the”
