My thoughts for Columbus Day

[Iamme]

1. Why is my bank closing in observance of some man who discovered nothing?

2. If the Indians were here first, then why don't Indians look like Indians?


















Didn't the Indians come from India? Then how come the type of Indian we see on the Buffalo nickle no more ressemble the Indian who might be named Assabi Daharatannahaminari..from India (who, by the way, for some odd reason...they all like to become doctors in the US.)...than the man in the moon.

 

[American]

1. Why is my bank closing in observance of some man who discovered nothing?

2. If the Indians were here first, then why don't Indians look like Indians?

1. He sure helped the JREF mission, supporting the once-crazed theory of a spherical earth.

2. You are mistaking the Indians of southern Asia for the native peoples of the great North America. You have gone and made a total fool of yourself!

 

[toddjh]

1. He sure helped the JREF mission, supporting the once-crazed theory of a spherical earth.

...which no educated person of Columbus's time doubted. What he did do is bring to western Europe's attention the fact that its estimate of the earth's size was way off. Others were already vagely aware of this, of course.

Jeremy

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

1. Why is my bank closing in observance of some man who discovered nothing?

2. If the Indians were here first, then why don't Indians look like Indians?


Didn't the Indians come from India? Then how come the type of Indian we see on the Buffalo nickle no more ressemble the Indian who might be named Assabi Daharatannahaminari..from India (who, by the way, for some odd reason...they all like to become doctors in the US.)...than the man in the moon.

Pick up a book sometime and read it. Just once.

 

[Skeptic]

...which no educated person of Columbus's time doubted. What he did do is bring to western Europe's attention the fact that its estimate of the earth's size was way off. Others were already vagely aware of this, of course.

Jeremy

Precisely the opposite. Ever since the Greeks, educated people knew the earth's cicumference was about 40,000 kilometers. It was Colombus who wrongly claimed that it was only about 20,000, so that sailing to India the "wrong way" with the ships available at the time was possible, since according to his calculations India should have been roughly were America actually is.

His critics were right. The earth really is about 40,000, not 20,000, km in cicumference. If it wasn't for the accident of an unexpected continent midway, he would have been lost at sea. He was wrong, but lucky.