Re: Arafat 'in critical condition'

From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 11/01/04 

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:02:23 -0500

Floyd L. Davidson wrote:

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>>Au Contraire. In such climes people had to track the
>>seasons. Astronomy developed in Babylon and Egypt, not in the
>>cold frozen North.
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>
> Are you sure? Or is that just more culture centric drivel...

Read some history. Any records of Eskimo astronomers? Not that I know
of. Do you have any other data in this regard.

Our intellectual heritage was shaped in Egypt, Babylon and especially
Greece. This is where mathematics astronomy and science originated. It
is a matter of historical record.

While the men of the frozen north were invading Russia and Englad,
cracking skulls, and collecting DanesGold, the peoples of Mediterrean
where creating mathematics and science. And the Chinese also made a big
contribution too. They invented gunpoweder and rockets.

Bob Kolker