Cognitive load

[Bob Sneidar]

A very well known historical figure once said that two would be sleeping, one would be taken and the other left. 2 would be grinding grain, one would be taken the other left. Two would be working in the field, one would be taken the other left. People sleep at night, grind grain in the morning, and work in the field the remainder of the day. That one event happens at all these different times shows that the speaker knew the world was round. 

Bob S


> On Apr 23, 2017, at 08:01 , Keith Martin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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>> Until about 1600 is was a "well-known fact" that the world was flat
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> Heh. Nice analogy.
> Except that even this fact itself isn't true! Most educated people much further back than that believed that the Earth was round. Copernicus (1473-1543) didn't cause consternation through refuting the flatness of the world, he proposed that the world revolved around the sun rather than the other way around. And this wasn't the first time for that concept: Aristarchus of Samos (approx 310-230 BC) originally presented the heliocentric concept, which relies inherently on the Earth being a sphere. In fact (uh-oh! ;) the flat-Earth idea has been only patchily believed for far longer than people generally realise.
> Which makes it even more mind-numbingly strange that people think this today. But then, who in their right mind would look to a basketball player for scientific information?
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> :D
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> k