1 Jul
2007
1 Jul
'07
3:50 p.m.
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
You might be able to move it by a nanometer. The
solar wind might move
it more. We're just too puny to have much of an effect. That was the
conclusion we came to.
Still let us not forget what real levers could build.
The Pyramids and Stonehenge and Easter Island Heads come to
mind. I put more faith in that in that rather than some
'alien' construction.
No it wasn't. Ask Eratosthenes. 8-)
I would ask him but I can't under stand a word he said.
It is all greek to me. :)
Eratosthenes and Archimedes lived at the same time.
The one who had
drastically underestimated the size of the Earth was Pythagoras, 300
years earlier.
PS. The greeks had a lot a creative ideas.
I wonder if they did not have slaves, they would have developed
higher mechanical engineering and perhaps development of a mechanical
calculating engine?
Peace... Sridhar