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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
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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.
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