Sat 7 Nov, 2009 09:57 am - BillRM says: "Second please take note it was European ships and European crews that ended up sailing the south Pacific ". And when they got there, who did they find? Polynesians. On... (view)
Sat 7 Nov, 2009 02:05 am - Do you guys ever actually read anything you cite? Nothing in that article gives an indication that he had terrorist leanings. The contrary, in fact. (view)
Sat 7 Nov, 2009 01:54 am - okie and Finn, did you guys miss the next sentence of that news story, or did you omit it intentionally?
"They had not determined for certain whether Hasan is the author of the posting, and a... (view)
Sat 7 Nov, 2009 01:48 am - Bill, latitude and longitude is A system of navigation. It's not THE system of navigation. Polynesians didn't use those terms, nor did they think in those terms. They got where they... (view)
Fri 6 Nov, 2009 11:54 pm - You don't know a whole lot about navigation, Bill. Europeans were pretty good at latitude, but pretty ;poor at longitude. It wasn't until the invention of accurate chronometers three... (view)
Fri 6 Nov, 2009 11:12 pm - Haven't seen any indications of that, okie. It's probably more likely that he didn't want to go shoot fellow Moslems, a fairly common kind of stumbling block for a lot of people--as... (view)
Fri 6 Nov, 2009 11:03 pm - Good. I love that lantern. They have a parking garage too? Holy moley. But the lawn looks really a bit barren--I think they really need to transplant some big old trees. (view)
Fri 6 Nov, 2009 10:25 pm - ooh, Kris, I'm jealous. did you go? I had other stuff going on then and couldn't get there. Saw the pix the library's site has of it and it looks GREAT. You gonna go to the... (view)
