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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (58690)1/12/2005 4:45:25 PM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
>>My point is that the achievements of long ago were not really a big deal. There's a tendency these days to think of people hacking flint into shape and figuring out some geometry as being the equivalent of today's brilliant people. Nutting out CDMA or E=mc2 and doing quantum tunnelling is obviously much more difficult. It's like me being able to repair a 1953 Hillman and BSA Bantam Major, but looking in bewilderment at a Y2K Lexus engine's intricacies.<<

Mq, here's a damn good achievement from long ago...

Ancient Astronomer's Work Found on Roman Statue
Tue Jan 11, 7:29 PM ET Science - Reuters
story.news.yahoo.com
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