New Horizons, to infinity, & beyond

[bob10]

We've come a long way since humans thought the earth was flat, Bob


New Horizons: Countdown to Pluto ? Science Features (ABC Science) (http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2015/06/01/4245193.htm)

[jonesfam]

You mean the world is NOT flat!????
Then how come I don't fall off?
What, you think there is some invisible force just holding everything down?
Sheeech!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What young people think these days!
I blame Face Book.
Jonesfam
;)

[DiscoMick]

Once upon a time, people used heroin as a medicine. They also routinely bled patients to expel 'bad spirits' and 'evil odours'. That was in the time when the Dead Sea was still only sick. Shockingly, there was even a time when people burnt coal to generate electricity. How could they be so dumb?

[korg20000bc]

For your edification, Dr Karl on the historical belief in a flat earth:
Modern take on medieval method falls flat ? Dr Karl's Great Moments In Science (ABC Science) (http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/07/22/2633359.htm'topic)