From: kevin.strom@revilo-oliver.com   
      
   It truly is distressing to see patriots and free-thinkers getting   
   ensnared in the "flat Earth" nonsense. I suppose it is a case of good   
   folks being lied to so many times that, after a while, they start to   
   think that everything is a lie. That's a mistake, though an   
   understandable one.   
      
   I worked for decades as a broadcast engineer. The formulas we use to   
   determine the coverage of radio stations work perfectly, and are based   
   on (among other things) the sphericity of the Earth. If the Earth were   
   flat, FM stations from Tasmania could be heard routinely and clearly in   
   the Hollywood hills.   
      
   We've known about the sphericity of the Earth since Eratosthenes'   
   intelligent experiments 2200 years ago. When the Christians burned the   
   great libraries and philosophic schools, they imposed vulgar Semitic   
   fables on us, such as the "flat Earth." The rediscovery of European   
   science and natural philosophy in the Renaissance got people thinking   
   again, with Columbus's and Magellan's great voyages among the results.   
      
   Every single radio station in the world, and there are tens of thousands   
   of them, proves that the Earth is a sphere -- as does even the most   
   basic understanding of our intellectual heritage.   
      
   With all good wishes,   
      
   Kevin Alfred Strom.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)