1 Jul
2007
1 Jul
'07
10:57 a.m.
woodelf 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.
That it
wouldn't matter where you stood, because you'd have to bring
the end of the lever down from someplace in the sky impossible to reach.
The law still holds regardless. That was the whole point of the
saying -- did any body remember that? PS. The world was a whole lot smaller then too, ask
Atlas about that
some time.
No it wasn't. Ask Eratosthenes. 8-)
Eratosthenes and Archimedes lived at the same time. The one who had
drastically underestimated the size of the Earth was Pythagoras, 300
years earlier.
Peace... Sridhar