Re: New shuttle
rsetzer <[email protected]>
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Sailors always knew it. They could plainly see a ship sink below the curve as it sailed away. Partial eclipses were also a pretty good clue. Haaaaay, lookit that big round shadow on the moon! Michael Cuffaro wrote: > 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Community email addresses: >>>>> Post message: [email protected] >>>>> Subscribe: >>> >>>[email protected] >>> >>>>> Unsubscribe: >>> >>>[email protected] >>> >>>>> List owner: >>> >>>[email protected] >>> >>>>> >>>>>Yahoo! Groups Links >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Community email addresses: >>>> Post message: [email protected] >>>> Subscribe: >>> >>>[email protected] >>> >>>> Unsubscribe: >>> >>>[email protected] >>> >>>> List owner: [email protected] >>>> >>>>Yahoo! Groups Links >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>>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 >>> >>>__________________________________________________ >>>Do You Yahoo!? >>>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam >>>protection around >>>http://mail.yahoo.com >>> >>> >>>Community email addresses: >>> Post message: [email protected] >>> Subscribe: >>>[email protected] >>> Unsubscribe: >>>[email protected] >>> List owner: [email protected] >>> >>>Yahoo! Groups Links >>> >>> >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>___________________________________________________________ >>Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail >>http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com >> >> >>Community email addresses: >> Post message: [email protected] >> Subscribe: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: [email protected] >> List owner: [email protected] >> >>Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > 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 > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > > Community email addresses: > Post message: [email protected] > Subscribe: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > List owner: [email protected] > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > >