Article: 261496 of talk.bizarre From: Andrew Solberg <andsol@cml.rice.edu> Newsgroups: talk.bizarre Subject: 40x100 Date: 1 Dec 1995 21:30:37 -0500 Organization: iTRiBE Mail to News Gateway Lines: 67 Sender: nobody@athos.itribe.net Message-ID: <49odod$kb9@athos.itribe.net> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] X-Provider: iTRiBE, Inc <URL: http://www.itribe.net/> X-Gateway: Posted via the iTRiBE News<->Email gateway X-Disclaimer: iTRiBE, Inc. neither endorses nor assumes any responsibility for the contents of this posting. Status: O A BRIEF HISTORY OF SCIENCE ************************** Look! What? I put these rocks in the fire. This shiny stuff melted out! It's strange and scary. Destroy it! ////////////////////////////////////******\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Look! What? This well 'sees' the sun at noon. In Alexandria the angle's different! By Zeus! the world *is* round! ////////////////////////////////////******\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Look! What? Objects of differing weights fall at the same speed! Such a mystery! Some universal force is at work.... ////////////////////////////////////******\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Look! What? My figures show a minor perturbation in Jupiter's orbit. There's another planet! Unbelieveable! what shall we call it? ////////////////////////////////////******\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Look! What? I've cracked the genetic code! This tube holds the first man-made fetus! It's strange and scary. Destroy it! ////////////////////////////////////******\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ -- This post is COPYRIGHT 1995, Andrew Solberg. All rights reserved. Standard usenet distribution is acceptable; other forms of reproduction or reprinting may be considered in violation of international copyright law. Andrew Solberg is HWRNMNBSOL: andsol@cml.rice.edu, Math Dept., Rice U.