OMG i dont know if your just trying to be annoying or actually serious. I said it as an example but you guys focused on it literally instead of thinking 'out side the box'. Now imagine having a plane fly like a bee (as seen in the movie avatar pretty much) a few years ago or now and not knowing people are working on it today to make it a reality.Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Ancient Greece, around 250bce.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes#Eratosthenes.27_measurement_of_the_earth.27s_circumference
the fact that no one ever thought the world was flat also seems to have escaped you. The belief that anyone ever actually thought that the earth was flat was a literal invention only by Washington Irving in 1828. No one ever believed it before then, and its only people who don't know what theyre talking about who believed it since
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Irving#Impact_on_American_culture
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hahaha!! i just had a thought one day they will - since i remembering hearing the Large Hadron Collider keeps getting sabotaged from the futureIt's amazing what they're doing with something that can only heat up the ionosphere these days. I wonder if these same geniuses can make a time machine out of a toaster.
rorylee, you may not care much about spelling, punctuation and grammar, and perhaps your usual cyberspace haunts don't care if you're less intelligible than Arnold Schwarzenegger, but the JREF forums are more serious than most places on the internet. This is a forum meant for intelligent discussion, not juvenile textspeak and grade-school spelling.
And the plain fact is that the quality of your posts directly affects how you are perceived. If you can't even spell "people" correctly, most of the posters here aren't going to bother reading the rest of your post. After all, you didn't even bother to figure out how to phrase yourself correctly. Why should we believe that the actual argument is going to be any better?
No matter how intelligent you are, or how great your argument is, if you can't take thirty extra seconds to make sure that you haven't placed any horrible violations of the English language in your post, no one is going to take you seriously.
Ive already built a reputation here and i guess ppl are going to read what i say no matter what for a good debate, atleast i hope so
