🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: sci.astro
Article #4398

Re: The Flat Earth?

#4398
From: Andrew Skolnick
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 00:00
14 lines
1562 bytes
In <D7HCBE.2B5@crash.cts.com> roosen@crash.cts.com (Robert Roosen)
writes: 
>
>The flat earth theory was disproven experimentally in 1492 by
Christopher 
>Columbus.  He set out on a voyage of discovery with five ships.  Only
two 
>of them fell of the edge.  It was a close thing.

Sorry Robert, but you got your facts wrong. Those two ships didn't fall
off the edge of the earth.  They disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle.

-- Andrew Skolnick
<g,d&r>
Technical Details
Message-ID: <3ndvlo$h9i@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail
References: <O1iblelgYjV9079yn@calvados.apna.org.au> <3n9gdm$8ap@starman.convex.com> <ts_zemanian-2204950941540001@ts_zemanian.pnl.gov> <D7HCBE.2B5@crash.cts.com>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f66d0,bd5c6f53c27c37d
X-Google-Attributes: gidf66d0,public
X-Google-Thread: f44bc,bd5c6f53c27c37d
X-Google-Attributes: gidf44bc,public
X-Google-Thread: f74ae,bd5c6f53c27c37d
X-Google-Attributes: gidf74ae,public
X-Google-Thread: 1038c2,bd5c6f53c27c37d
X-Google-Attributes: gid1038c2,public
X-Google-Thread: 10b363,bd5c6f53c27c37d
X-Google-Attributes: gid10b363,public
X-Google-Thread: fc158,bd5c6f53c27c37d
X-Google-Attributes: gidfc158,public
X-Google-Thread: 10f18e,bd5c6f53c27c37d
X-Google-Attributes: gid10f18e,public
From: skolnick@ix.netcom.com (Andrew Skolnick)
Subject: Re: The Flat Earth?
Date: 1995/04/23
Message-ID: <3ndvlo$h9i@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>
X-Deja-AN: 101240094
distribution: world
references: <O1iblelgYjV9079yn@calvados.apna.org.au> <3n9gdm$8ap@starman.convex.com> <ts_zemanian-2204950941540001@ts_zemanian.pnl.gov> <D7HCBE.2B5@crash.cts.com>
organization: Netcom
newsgroups: sci.astro,talk.origins,sci.anthropology,alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.skeptic,aus.religion,alt.religion.christian