Trust-Love, Paranoia-Chaos, Leni

[George Haberberger]

At 10:06 AM 7/30/97 -0500, Henry Musikar wrote:
>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

I suppose all the Northern Hemisphere P-Listers could take a bearing on
Polaris, figure the angle of Polaris from the horizon with a $1.99
protractor, a piece of dental floss and a nut, and calculate our latitudenal
(sic) differences in distance. The rest is just geometry.

SI units, please.

Of course, then you have to trust us, Henry.

George