Posted on 10/29/2018 11:38:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Something like that, yeah, and thanks! *
So, if they were reasonable and intelligent they would think there must be an end to the flat surface somewhere.
Wouldn’t that make a great documentary: The End of the World, Revealed.
Why not take your life savings, put together a film crew, travel to the edge of the world, and film the experience?
The shock the rest of us would feel finally knowing how we’d been deceived would ensure word of mouth publicity and then great profit.
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” -- Theodore Dalrymple [Wiki attributes this to Anthony Daniels, TD is his nom de plume]
Since they'd never find it, they'd just claim that some unnamed conspiracy was keeping them from finding it. They are that dumb.
We Have a Launch and Landing Dates! – Press Release (July 10, 2018) -- First Israeli lunar spacecraft set to land on moon Feb. 13, 2019, making Israel fourth country to do so YEHUD, Israel, July 10 – At a historic press conference today at Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)’s MBT Space facility in Yehud, Israel, nonprofit SpaceIL and IAI announced a lunar mission to launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., this December, and land on the moon on Feb. 13, 2019. A final launch date will be announced closer to the event. The lunar landing will culminate eight years of intensive collaboration between SpaceIL and IAI, and will make Israel the fourth country after the U.S., China and Russia to reach the moon. The spacecraft will be launched as a secondary payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and its journey to the moon will last about two months, ending on its expected landing date. The Israeli lunar spacecraft will be the smallest to land on the moon, weighing only 1,322 pounds, or 600 kilograms. Approximately $88 million (NIS 320 million) has been invested in the spacecraft’s development and construction, mostly from private donors, headed by SpaceIL President Mr. Morris Kahn, who donated about $27 million, or NIS 100 million.
The shadow of a stick stuck in the ground don’t lie. How he figured it using a stick, a shadow, and algebra was pretty slick.
Who knows the scope of what we truly lost at the library of Alexandria. He did...
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