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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Actually at least with chicken eggs they have that shape before they come out. Also, the shape of eggs can differ by quite a bit. They are not as uniformly shaped as you find in a store. I would imagine that egg shapes would be even more varied in the wild.
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If there's such a variance, then why was the earth compared to an egg in the first place? There's only one earth and it has a unique shape at any one point in time.
Was it just supposed to go without saying that it was meant that eggs and the earth are both spheroids?
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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
To argue that the shape of an egg isn't close enough to the shape of the earth to be an accurate description is silly.
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It's not silly at all. There are plenty of purposes for which approximating the shape of the earth to that of an egg (ostrich, chicken, platypus or otherwise) just won't do. If it was just accepted that the earth is the shape of an average ostrich egg, the 08:00 from Calgary to New York JFK ends up in rural Maine and the sewer main under the road in front of your house ends up being built under your lawn.