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Twenty-Foot Earth Globe and 200-Foot Celestial Sphere:
"their telescopes pointed to whatever stars may be vertically outward from the Earth at their respective omni-Earth-triangulated, one-mile-apart, grid vertexes. Let us assume the photographing telescopes to be very long-barreled to shield those not pointing at the Sun from its intense luminosity. A composite mosaic of all those pictures could now be print-mounted spherically on the inside of a translucent 200-foot globe of Earth’s conventional geographic data of continents, islands, etc., together with the conventional latitude-longitude grid. Because they were photographed outside the Earth’s cloud cover they would present a composite and accurate spherical picture of what the navigators and astronauts call the celestial sphere with the relative brilliance of the stars in evidence with astronomically calculable corrections being made in the printing for the Sun luminosity effects.
While this picture was orientationally unique to its one moment in eternity in respect to the Earth-to-celestial-sphere orientation, the Earth data per se and the celestial sphere data per se remain constant at their magnitude of scrutability within the lifespan of any human.
-Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 1110.03 (Gray)-04 25 Jan’73
