it flummoxes me that we with all our comforts and technologies can be so incurious and so ignorant while some dude who probably didn't wipe his ass figured out how far away the moon was by just looking up and doing some math en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_...
I'd prefer to wipe my ass than do math, though
if you calculate the orbit of the toilet paper around your crack you can do both
that said, it's important to keep polymaths humble. anytime you read about some ancient guy who spoke more languages than you and held public office and discovered stars or whatever, just remember that he must have smelled FOUL
that's what really was the impetus for eventual space exploration: trying to get as far away as possible from the foul stench of ol' stinky butt
Why you think the British sailed around the world? For glory and conquest? No way man. You know that bog covered island with its bland food staaaank
ugh but then they stick you in a capsule with other stinkasses
And the fact that they lived until 100 at a time when everyone died at 30... Giant beard... They were unemployed.
the very simple Hellenic-era test for whether the earth is round: try looking, idiot