[ExI] traffic apoeclipse

[John Clark]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:35 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

​> ​
> In their astounding wisdom, the road department decided they need to do
> road construction on the interstate, on Monday, eclipse day, when
> approximately 8 billion yahoos from California needed to come thru there.


​
That wasn't their fault, they didn't know the eclipse was coming. Thales of
Miletus
​ ​
was able to predict a solar eclipse in 585 BC but it's unreasonable to
expect the road department to be able to do the same thing
​ in 2017 AD.​


 John K Clark
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