On Mon, 24 Oct 1994 11:37:25 -0500,
Sheldon Schafer  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I don't know from the posting whether the "St Paul Flat Earth Society"
>is a factual exhibit or a spoof or a true group of fringe crackpots.
   Sheldon, actually, it's all three.
> However, our Community Solar System is a fully developed education
>program/exhibit.  It teaches one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented
>concepts in astronomy, the relationship between size and distance
>in our solar system, on a scale that is dramatic and attention getting.
   Here the instruction compares latitude and longitude: one is fixed, the
other arbitrary (subject to political, economic, and social influence--The
Saint Paul Meridian was established in part to commemorate the demise of
the British Empire). Curator J. Miller is "on-line" but may not be
subscribed to Museum-L; I'll forward this to him; perhaps he'll provide
more detail.    Best,  Jim