Trust-Love, Paranoia-Chaos, Leni

[Henry Musikar]

On 30 Jul 97 at 6:45, Thomas Vieth <whoge at hotmail.com> wrote:

> The earth being round!? Well, wasn't there a proof by some ancient
> Greek whose name escapes me? My crippling memory says he went from
> Alexandria (?) to Luxor with a stick of fixed length and measured
> its shadow at noon in both places and thus came up with the notion
> that the earth has got to be round.... Someone care to fill in...?

My point exactly. Not only don't I remember how the proof is 
performed, but I don't know anyone who knows anyone who has performed 
it. Faith.

AsB4,
Henry Musikar
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