Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Allen wrote: > > > It is not make sense to compare earth and basketball. > > why not? they're both round, so surely they must have been inspired > by each other. the question is if humanity invented balls before we > figured out that the earth is round, or if it's the other way around... > > </F> >
In keeping with the computer science flavor, we can say that no one invented earth or balls to be round. Rouindness is an emergent behavior of a substance which has shape-forming adhesion and shape-changing fluidity, and is subject to radially symmetric shape-impacting processes. Magma and gravity for the earth, leather and air pressure for inflated balls, sand and accretion for beach "cannonballs", and snow and hand pressure for snowballs. -- Harry George PLM Engineering Architecture -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
