Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site oddjob.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!gargoyle!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Logical knock-out Message-ID: <1026@oddjob.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 13:28:14 EST Article-I.D.: oddjob.1026 Posted: Mon Nov 4 13:28:14 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 03:56:06 EST References: <449@imsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) Organization: U. Chicago, Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 20 Just when I have the automatic article-rejection figured out, somebody tells me there's another doozy from Ted: In article <449@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes: > I can't believe some of what I'm seeing on the net these days. I >mean, I try not to let it get to me, but... He spends one entire page, >something like eighty lines, making the point that EVERY BODY in the ancient >world knew how large the earth was, and that it was round, and then, in >Chapter II, we read the following: > >>Remember Homer? His was >>an age when it was still a big deal to sail from Greece to Sicily! Is this beyond your comprehension? Think: We know how far away Pluto is, and the shape of its orbit, but we live in an age when it is still a big deal to travel from the Earth to the Moon. Give yourself a vacation, Ted. The strain is showing. _____________________________________________________ Matt University crawford@anl-mcs.arpa Crawford of Chicago ihnp4!oddjob!matt