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<DIV><FONT size=2>Well, actually, the Ancient Greeks knew the world was round
and already had good estimates of its size. (IIRC, Erasthones made an
estimate about 200 BCE of 25K miles.) The reasoning was based on
information known at that time, including things like the shape of the Earth's
shadow on the Moon during eclipses (obviously, when the Earth eclipses the Sun
from the Moon's point of view:), that the masts of ship appeared first on the
horizon, that the horizon looked round from high altitudes, and that difference
in angle of the Sun at various places during noon on the same day (that how
Erasthonese made his famous calculation).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Of course, we sophisticated moderns know that current flat
earth theory explains how the Ancients got it so wrong with their silly notion
of a spherical Earth. Just kidding!":)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Dan</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><A
href="http://uweb1.superlink.net/~neptune/">http://uweb1.superlink.net/~neptune/</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=femmechakra@yahoo.ca href="mailto:femmechakra@yahoo.ca">Anne-Marie
Taylor</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org
href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">ExI chat list</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 04, 2006 9:23
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [extropy-chat] NASA and the
Big Bang "theory"</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT size=2></FONT><BR><B><I>Damien Broderick <<A
href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com">thespike@satx.rr.com</A>></I></B> wrote:
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<DIV>religious issue: the Bible implies that the world is flat, with four
corners.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>Just curious but couldn't that have meant that 2000 years ago somebody
came</DIV>
<DIV>up with a scientic hypothesis that the world is flat with four
corner?. I think</DIV>
<DIV>that would seem like a very good probability based on the information
they</DIV>
<DIV>had at that time. </DIV>
<DIV>Anna</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>