¶ Twenty-Foot Earth Globe and 200-Foot Celestial Sphere
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Twenty-Foot Earth Globe and 200-Foot Celestial Sphere:
"The Earth’s highest mountain top is five miles above sea level and the ocean’s deepest bottom is five miles below sea level. We could now modify the surface of our transparent plastic 20-foot model of the Earth to show those aberrations which would show that some parts of the Earth’s surface have a different radial distance from the Earth’s center; but it would be in evidence that the stars would be in zenith over the same latitude-longitude grid points as would also be all of the satellite photographic stations.
“Finding that surface aberrations include only radial distance variations and changes in the spherical surface line-of-sight projections from the center, we will now introduce a clear plastic shell model of a whale, and another of a crocodile, of such sizes that the crocodile is large enough to omnisurround or swallow the 20-foot miniature Earth globe, and the whale is large enough to swallow the crocodile yet small enough to be inside the 200-foot diameter clear plastic celestial sphere. With omnidirectional spoke-wires we will now tensionally position the whale within the 200-foot celestial sphere and we will tensionally wire-position”
