Carl Sagan - Cosmos - Eratosthenes
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@Huddiethegreat at 5:00 - beautiful piece of music! did you know it mate? it's perfectly suiting with his speech!
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anybody knows what is the music at 5:00 ??
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@celticlofts Well, when you think about it, we all can still think the same amount, the calculator means less thinking necessary for us, so we can explore further into our ideas
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If he didn't assume the suns rays came in paralel to each other, or was absolutely convinced that the earth was flat, he could also have deducted that the sun floated 6560 km. above the earth.
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love him
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@nandob777: The problem is people don't use their brains anymore, they allow computers to do the thinking for them. Kids can't add without the help of a calculator for goodness sake ... god help us..
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@octemberfury haha :)
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4 ppl must have been lacking one of these: sticks, eyes, feet, brains... probably the latter.
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Brilliant Beethoven
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And Aristarchus determined that the Earth revolves around the Sun in the 3rd century BC. Unfortunately, we don't know how he came to this conclusion since his works, along with many others, were destroyed in the burning of the Library of Alexandria. :(
i wish carl sagan was inside my head, narrating my day for me.
octemberfury 7 months ago 65
BUT THE EARTH IS FLAT!
grimtendo 1 year ago 43