From: bondage@frontiernet.net   
      
   Allen Meece wrote:   
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   >   And I very much doubt that three little sailing ships can discover a new   
   > world across the ocean.   
   >   Pessimists talk that way because they think it makes them sound smart.   
      
      
      Or perhaps they know something that you don't?   
      
      BTW, Columbus wasn't *looking* for a new world, but another route to   
   *known* locations. Earth was spherical, but larger than he believed. The   
   continents of North and South America were unknown to him, and had they   
   not existed, his ships would not have made it to Asia. Rather like   
   trying to reach Mars with an unmodified Apollo.   
      
      
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