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From: govett@avsd.UUCP (David Govett)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: science is STILL religion
Message-ID: <50@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 88 16:29:51 GMT
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> In article <121@aplcomm.UUCP> jwm@stdc.jhuapl.edu.UUCP (James W. Meritt) writes:
> 
> >Show me a middle-ages king with central heating/air conditioning!
> 
> The Romans knew how to build houses with central heating.  A kind
> of air-conditioning was brought about with clever architecture.
> They also know how to construct indoor plumbing.  All of these
> techniques were learned from earlier civilizations.

Termites have known climate control for millions of years.

But did medieval kings know the wonders of plastics? 

Good thing we don't live in the middle ages or we might be subject to
plagues.  (This is intended to be ironic, so restrain your didactic
impulses.)