Trust-Love, Paranoia-Chaos, Leni

[Henry Musikar]

On 31 Jul 97 at 8:52, George Haberberger <ghaberbe at frontiernet.net> 
wrote:

> 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.

Now I'm supposed to believe that not only is the Earth round, but 
that there is a star that you call "Polaris" that...  

Well, you get the point. My education didn't build on tangibles. One 
of the good things about Montessori is that it does. Anyone remember 
the Firesign Theater's "Everything You Know is Wrong" album?

AsB4,
Henry Musikar
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