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Re: Ayn Rand Institute
Thomas W. Rimkus (trimkus@COMP.UARK.EDU)
Tue, 20 Feb 1996 03:23:13 -0600
On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Doug Weller wrote:
> In message <Pine.SOL.3.91.960219130902.7002A-100000@oats>
> holmberg joseph marv <z961639@OATS.FARM.NIU.EDU> wrote:
> > had cities that could put the largest European city (Paris) at that time
> > to shame. And it was said that at the time Colombus reached the New
> > World, Aztecs and Mayans were already 800 years ahead of Europeans at
> > Mathemetics, and 1200 years at astronomy.
>
> Without putting down the Aztecs and Mayans, does this mean that we
> still have a long way to go to catch up with them?
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> --
> Doug Weller ***'De Chelonian Mobile!'***
>
Good point. It is kinda desperate to realize that we are very certain
that we now know that we have about 700 years before we will know what we now
know to be what they knew 500 years ago. I guess there is some
consolation in knowing that we will, at that time, know it. Of course,
there is always the possibility that we will forget it in the meantime.
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