Re: New shuttle

I seem to recall that the ancient Greeks had calculated the diamater of 
the planet way back when. Don't ask me where I heard this, or why I 
remember it.



[email protected] wrote:
>>The world was not supposed to be round. 
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> Actually, the complaint of the British was not that the world was flat, it was that it was bigger around than Columbus had calculated.  They were right.  His calculations were whack.
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>>There was not supposed to be a land route to China. 
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> Say what?  The Silk Road was around for a while.  The problem with the purely land route to China was mainly A) It was expensive and B) It ran through several plague breeding grounds.
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>>The Soz were not supposed to ever win another series. 
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> The Soz?
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> -Sloth
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