BitTorrent + INDUCE Act + Linspire 5.0 + subversive theories

[David Nicol]

Brian, go to the principal's office.

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:55:14 -0500, Brian Densmore
<densmoreb at ctbsonline.com> wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Monty J. Harder
> > The majority thought the earth was flat, until
> > Columbus and Magellan proved them wrong.  
> BS! This is a legend (as in urban legend). Everyone
> knew the Earth was round, especially sailors. This
> story came about because of a fiction novel written
> by I believe Dante. It's total BS to say people
> thought the Earth was flat. It was quite obvious,
> from any high enough mountain or on the open sea
> to see the curvature of the Earth. The problem
> sailors had with crossing the Atlantic was that
> they figured it was too wide to cross with the
> amount of supplies a ship could carry, and had
> there not been an American continent they'd have been
> right. The experts that laughed at Columbus did so
> because they knew his math was way off, he just
> got lucky in finding someone who was dumb enough to
> believe his math over the experts at the time.


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David L Nicol
transportation infrastructure technology contracting since 2002