Brian, Your son has style!
Harry ---------------------------------------------- Brian wrote: >At 9:31 PM -0400 6/9/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Frankly, it's not worth the trouble. Shamir's articles and views fall into >>the "flat earth society" category. > >Hi Arthur, >The Flat Earth Society serves a wonderful purpose. They want people to >think for themselves and not just accept things uncritically. A personal >anecdote might help here: > > Many years ago I was driving in my car listening to the radio. It was a > local talk show and the guest was a member of the flat earth society. He > was having a great time challenging callers to convince him that the > earth was not flat. He frustrated a lot of callers by countering their > arguments with plausible alternatives. One of the callers sounded very > familiar because he was!! It was my father. He was was a carpenter who > liked to work out his own solutions to problems. His argument was based > on a simple experiment that he had done once to satisfy his curiosity. He > set up a telecope on the shores of Lake Ontario and scanning the horizon > he caught sight of the top of the mast of a large sailing ship. As it > came nearer more and more of the ship came into view. His hypothesis was > that the curvature of the earth was responsible for this. > >By the way, how come we still say the sun rises in the east and sets in >the west when the textbooks told us about Galileo's findings. Actually we >are now told (but do we believe?) that the sun does move. As I sit here >at my computer I'm told through my science schooling to believe that I'm >moving at 1600 km/ hour towards the east. At the same time I am also >moving much faster than that as our planet revolves around the sun and our >solar system is moving much faster than that within the Milky Way and our >galaxy is moving much faster than that within the universe and the >universe...(My son once asked me that with all this moving how come it >isn't really really windy?!) Science requires a lot of faith, eh? > >Maybe Shamir just wants us to think a little; thanks Chris. > >Take care, >Brian > > >-- >************************************************** >* Brian McAndrews, Practicum Coordinator * >* Faculty of Education, Queen's University * >* Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 * >* FAX:(613) 533-6596 Phone (613) 533-6000x74937* >* e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * >* "Education is not the filling of a pail, * >* but the lighting of a fire. * >* W.B.Yeats * >* * >************************************************** > > > > > >--- >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.370 / Virus Database: 205 - Release Date: 6/5/2002 ****************************** Harry Pollard Henry George School of LA Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (818) 352-4141 Fax: (818) 353-2242 *******************************
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