Re: New shuttle

Bah, go further back! Betya the cromagnum man didn't
think the earth was round !!!



--- Michael Cuffaro <[email protected]>
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
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