Re: New shuttle

Yeah, but noone believed him :-p


--- Michael Cuffaro <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > [email protected] wrote:
> > >>The world was not supposed to be round. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > 
> > >>There was not supposed to be a land route to
> China. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > 
> > >>The Soz were not supposed to ever win another
> series. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The Soz?
> > > 
> > > -Sloth
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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