Instead, he wonders at the newfound bending, stretching, and flattening of space. The gradual flattening of the ball continued over the years. The second largest component corresponds to the planet flattening and Tharsis bulge. SLR has shown that this flattening is decreasing. It is first hemispherical in shape before flattening out with maturity, and in diameter. This allows for a relatively complex behavior such as crinkling, turning, flattening, and internal churning. This process happens in three steps&colon; segmentation, texturing and flattening. Blanks are surrounded by collars when struck to prevent the blank from flattening and spreading. This will have the effect of flattening the power structure. Its relationship with the geometrical flattening is indirect. For the Earth , which is close to the measured inverse flattening . There was evidence of "spiral flattening". A normal artery is not palpable after flattening by digital pressure. The improvement due to flattening is most evident for strong farsighted lenses. Its relationship with the geometric flattening is indirect.