Back in 1997, I drove across country for HAL 9000’s birthday (yes, THAT Hal), held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where a friend was a graduate student. They called it the Cyberfest, and Arthur C. Clarke joined us for the first transatlantic video call at 1 frame per second.
But on the drive, I recall watching the time zones change around me. I calculated how many degrees across the Earth I had driven … and the shift in time due to the curve around the Earth matched up.
No, it’s not flat, and you cannot fake reality in any way whatsoever.
-the Centaur
Pictured: an Old Fashioned at the One Five, where we had a nice vegan meal after my urgent care visit for my broken toe.
