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JackRiddler

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10. Unknown to whom?

Reply to SheilaT (Reply #9)

Mon Sep 28, 2015, 05:56 AM

Sep 2015

European mariners and educated classes knew the world was round. Columbus sold the Spanish crown on the financing by claiming it was a lot smaller than anyone else thought. He was wrong, but had the luck of running into this shore of an "unknown" continent.

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If the Apollo program had continued [View all] DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 OP

Many years ago, on NPR, SheilaT Sep 2015 #1

I found artists' conceptions of that view online DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 #2

Yep. Wouldn't it have been amazing? SheilaT Sep 2015 #3

Would the 1492 media have filmed massacres of the indigenous? JackRiddler Sep 2015 #5

Maybe. SheilaT Sep 2015 #9

Unknown to whom? JackRiddler Sep 2015 #10

One of my professors had boxes and boxes of papers on an Apollo Venus orbit mission Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #4

Yeah, one of the proposed Apollo Applications Missions was a Venus flyby. Warren DeMontague Sep 2015 #8

He said the human concern was insanity or drug dependence Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #14

If 1970's battery technology was better.. A HERETIC I AM Sep 2015 #6

Oddly, my daughter and I just watched the Dr. Who episode about it tonight. byronius Sep 2015 #7

I don't think it would have continued - they were too afraid of leaving dead bodies up there Baclava Sep 2015 #11

epic men of flesh and blood Facility Inspector Sep 2015 #12

like this edhopper Sep 2015 #13