RE: FCC Orders All TV's To Have Digital Tuners By 2007

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 9 Aug 2002 at 14:14, Hakim Madjid wrote:

> Me thinks you are perpetuating the incorrect grade - school history
> myth that 500 years ago the  'every one but Columbus thought the earth was
> flat' back then. It actually was known that the earth was a sphere, back
> then. In fact some 2,200 years ago the Greek Scientist Eratosthenes had
> calculated the fairly acurately the circumfrence of the planet. Why would
> he bother if it was known the 'Earth was flat'?
 
IColumbus's problem was that he apparently thought the earth was a lot 
smaller than Eratosthenes had calculated, so he thought he could reach 
India a lot sooner.  And, of course, he didn't know there was another 
land mass out there.

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