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