Re: New shuttle

Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the earth to be 252,000 stadia, to be exact.  And he
was only off by a very little bit.

--- rsetzer <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
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> [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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Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
   -Tommy Douglas

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