Re: New shuttle

A round earth was pretty much common knowledge back in ancient times.. people tend to forget that
mankind was reasonably well advanced back then... we lost a lot of knowledge in the Dark Ages and
it was only in the 17th/18th centuries that we really got back to where we were then.  And even at
that there were some things that only got rediscovered in the 19th century.

-Mike

--- Ian Moes <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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