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| Aug 22, 2018 at 19:17 | comment | added | Cadence | On a torus, they should be able to work out the difference in curvature between the direction that leads around the whole torus, and the direction that leads to the inner rim. Whether they could deduce the overall shape from that, I'm not sure. | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 19:13 | comment | added | Ryan_L | What if the society is on the outer rim of a toroidal world? Correct me if I'm wrong, but a toroidal world with the sub-solar point in the center of the "donut hole" would show parallax just like a spherical world would it not? | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 19:08 | history | answered | Cadence | CC BY-SA 4.0 |