Billy Pettit real disappointment

[woodelf]

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