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Name: Daiva
Status: educator
Age: 40s
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Date: 1999
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Asking on behalf of the class teacher who brought students to the lab: "Why planets are spherical?

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Because things roll downhill.

You could think of a cube-shaped planet as a spherical planet with eight humongous mountains. Whenever there's any perturbation (e.g., an earth quake) stuff from the mountains is going to come down; only very rarely will things go up. This planet will become more spherical as it ages.

Tim Mooney


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