From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: wjanik Subject: Re: Your english sucks, mine is better. Date: 1997/12/02 Message-ID: <34848BF3.3622@uiuc.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 294654150 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <65iclc$cms$5@darla.visi.com> <65p7v8$f0j@netra.montana.edu> <34847653.4AB1@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-12-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > * I heard that the story of Galileo dropping things from the > tower of Pisa is a myth. Anyone have _good_ evidence either way? While I don't have quotable PROOF on the tower of Pisa myth, I can offer you this quotation from Steven Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" "It is said that Galileo demonstrated that Aristotle's belief was false by droping weights from the leaning tower of Pisa. This story is almost certainly untrue, but Galileo did do something equivalent: he rolled balls of diferent weights down a smooth slope." Again, while this isn't really "proof" that the Pisa story was a myth, it does cast a little more doubt.