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Twelve-Inch Steel World Globe:
"difference between the deepest ocean and the highest mountain. So you and i, then, are 1/10,000 of invisible on our twelve-inch globe. Now 75 percent of our planet Earth is covered with water and another 20 percent is uninhabited for one ‘frozen mountain’ reason or another. Our 3.6 billion Earthian humans are invisibly secreted in fractional percentages on those little continents, with six percent in Central and South America, eight percent in North America, ten percent in Africa, 20 percent in Europe, and 50 percent in Asia.
“The diameter of the star Sun is exactly 100 times that of our 8000-mile diameter Earth. With an engineer’s scale you can see 1/50 of an inch, but you can’t see 1/100 of an inch-- it is a blur. If you make a little circle of wire one-inch in diameter and hold it at arm’s length from your eye, you will find that it matches the size of the perimeter of the white-ghost disk of the Sun on a day when the Sun can be looked at through thin clouds. And so, against that one inch, the 1/100 of an inch that is our earth’s diameter would not be visible.”
“The star Betegeuse in the constellation Orion, has a diameter”
