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Article #4400Re: The Flat Earth?
From: Robert Roosen
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 00:00
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Andrew Skolnick (skolnick@ix.netcom.com) wrote: : 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 off 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 Wow. So once again a theory was proven even though the data were incorrect. Of course, if people would stop calling it the Bermuda Triangle and start calling it the Sargasso Sea again, the mystery of the missing ships would be explained. NSF, here comes my application Robert
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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: fc158,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidfc158,public X-Google-Thread: 1038c2,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gid1038c2,public X-Google-Thread: f74ae,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidf74ae,public X-Google-Thread: 10b363,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gid10b363,public X-Google-Thread: 10f18e,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gid10f18e,public From: roosen@crash.cts.com (Robert Roosen) Subject: Re: The Flat Earth? Date: 1995/04/25 Message-ID: <D7Ls4I.EwF@crash.cts.com> X-Deja-AN: 101505832 sender: news@crash.cts.com (news subsystem) references: <O1iblelgYjV9079yn@calvados.apna.org.au> <3n9gdm$8ap@starman.convex.com> <ts_zemanian-2204950941540001@ts_zemanian.pnl.gov> <D7HCBE.2B5@crash.cts.com> <3ndvlo$h9i@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> followup-to: sci.astro,talk.origins,sci.anthropology,alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.skeptic,aus.religion,alt.religion.christian organization: CTS Network Services (CTSNET), San Diego, CA newsgroups: sci.astro,talk.origins,sci.anthropology,alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.skeptic,aus.religion,alt.religion.christian