Monday, August 4, 2008
By the Way / Crazy Crap / Hannan / Hicks From the Sticks The Flat-Earthers Annual Cruise Turns Tragic
Posted by Caleb Hannan on Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:33 PM
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No such thing as a "remaining flat-earther." Flat-earthism is a fairly recent development, and was unknown at the time of Columbus.
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Flat-earthism is a fairly recent development, and was unknown at the time of Columbus.
Dang. Yet *another* thing I learned wrong in school.
The beef the Portuguese had w/ financing Colon's trip was that the crown's 'learned men' knew that the diameter of the earth was bigger than what Columbus proposed, so financing a trip into "Las Indias" via the open sea was akin to flushing your reales down the Duero. So Colon took his dog and caravel show into Castilla y Leon and conned my illustrious ancestors into paying up.
What Colon/Columbus/Colombo didn't take into account was running smack into The New World. And if it had not been there, all ships would have been lost, and the Portuguese would have totally pwned the Spaniards.
Look at what I just said?
The basis for it is backed up by Gauss's Law. I won't get into the math here, because it is hardly the place.
I think you misunderstand the definition of "horizontally." A "horizontally" limitless surface can still have depth.
I have also not been publicly educated, thank you.
