Oh gods can we get any more off-topic *wink* [was Re: [Python-ideas] Inconsistencies]

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Wed Sep 14 15:59:45 EDT 2016


On 2016-09-14 18:43, Dale Marvin via Python-list wrote:
> On 9/14/16 12:20 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Wednesday 14 September 2016 16:54, Rustom Mody wrote:
>>
>>> everything we know will be negated in 5-50-500 years
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that in 5, 50, 500 or even 5000 years, the sun will still rise
>> in the east, water will be wet, fire will burn, dogs will have mammary glands
>> and frogs[1] won't, and the square root of 100 will still be 10.
>>
>> Isaac Asimov once wrote:
>>
>>     When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people
>>     thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that
>>     thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth
>>     is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
>
>> http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
>>
>> [1] Assuming that there are any frogs left by then.
>>
>
> Funny, Asimov's professors must have taught him the same false history
> that I was taught at college. There's much evidence that medieval
> scholars did not believe the earth was flat.
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth>
>
Where does it say that he thought that _medieval_ scholars did not 
believe the earth was flat?



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