From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 26/12/2025 7:37 am, john larkin wrote:   
   > On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 23:55:47 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 25/12/2025 7:26 pm, E.Laureti wrote:   
      
      
      
   >>> So it's up to us, with revolutionary propulsion https://prop   
   lsion-revolution.com/en/pnn   
   >>> and poor https://propulsion-revolution.com/en/subspace, to repeat   
   Columbus's feat.   
   >>   
   >> Columbus's feat depended on his deluded idea that the circumference of   
   >> the earth was 24,000 km, rather than the 40,000 km that every educated   
   >> person in his time knew it to be.   
   >>   
   >> He though that he had found an alternative route to China.   
   >   
   > He did!   
      
   He would have had to sail all the way around South America to exploit   
   it, and the people who eventually did lost a lot of their crews to   
   scurvy by the time they had made it across the Pacific.   
      
   I suspect that E. Laureti is even deeper into self-delusion than   
   Columbus was, which may save a few lives. If you can't get off the   
   ground in the first place, you are unlikely to kill most of your crew.   
      
   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
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