I'll say "whoops" for you Dee :-)

I'm wondering about how the "earth as spherical theory" is seen as wrong. I
guess I will get the book.
Lefty
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Life is for learning


"Dee Randall" > wrote in message
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> > The significant problems we face cannot be solved
> > at the same level of thinking we were at when we
> > created them. Albert Einstein
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> Here is a similar idea expressed
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> The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely
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> ... My answer to him was, "... when people thought the Earth
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> --Isaac Asimov,The Relativity of Wrong, Kensington Books, New
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