Copernicus certainly had some difficulties with the Roman Catholic Church when he spread the "heresy" that the Earth was not the center of God's creation. They forced him to recant. Nowadays they accept Copernicus, and instead spend their time trying to hold back progress on gay rights. Lovely folks.
Bush Bites
· 1 year ago
Has the Catholic church forgiven him for saying the earth orbits around the sun yet?
Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood)
· 1 year ago
Yes, just recently. Doesn't give much hope for us queers, does it?
Bush Bites
· 1 year ago
copernicus had those renaissance ladies crazy about his telescope and galileo had a name that made his reputation higher than his hope did none of those astronomers discover while they were staring out into the dark that what a lady looks for in her lover is charm strangeness and quark
Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood)
· 1 year ago
Orvis Swirling Creature of the Dawn Enveloping Warmth, Its Life Moves On Ethereal Clouds Rising Steaming Gone Lonely Darkened Creature Losing Days Dawn Blackness Emptiness Holding It Close Shelter Seeking Kinship Friendship More Than Most Leaves Quiet Emptiness Words Unspoken Morose Lurking Looking Its Mute Silence Welcomes No Host Swirling Darkened Creature Of The Dawn Rising Steaming Falling On A Black Black Pond Briefly Hope Whispers Sparks Fades Then Gone Still-Born Dreams Flickering Moving On Scalding Waters Bloodlike Flowing In Its Soul Dissipating Heat As Life Grows Slowly Cold Quiet Quiet Time wears Down What Once Was Bold Rushing Steaming Streaming The Soul Not Yet so Old.
John, I hope you amplify the piece Andy Towle has about the founder of HomeDepot & his comments supporting the Republican Party.
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
Well I haven't seen it and you didn't provide me the URL or email it to me :-) So...
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
Fortunate for him that he did not survive to witness the advances of science by the Bush Administration.
fostert
· 1 year ago
Wow. I didn't even know he lost. What amazes me about Copernicus is that his theory was mathematically even worse than Ptolemy's. But he believed it anyway. Nobody else did, of course. It wasn't until Kepler came up with a better theory that anyone believed it. And Kepler got lucky. His laziness led to the theory. Brahe wanted him to calculate ovals, but the math was hard. So Kepler calculated ellipses instead. That turned out to be the answer. So much in science comes from dumb luck, but that counts too.
fostert
· 1 year ago
Okay, this is getting out of hand. "Brahe" is considered to be a proper spelling ( as is "Tycho"). And for good reason, Tycho Brahe gave us great data, hired Kepler, and was a serious astronomer in his own right. But why is "Obama" still a misspelled word?
fostert
· 1 year ago
So what's up with the editing? It appears that editing can only be done in comments now. So here it is:
"I didn't even know he lost." should be "I didn't even know was he lost."
bob
· 1 year ago
Kepler was also religious and committed to hypothesis for orbits that he associated with the greatness of God, until the data finally showed that notion to be impossible.
And how do they know that the hair found is Copernicus'? It's a stretch but even if it matches the skeleton, the hair and skeleton could be that of someone else. ;-)
jebauer
· 1 year ago
Kind of along the same lines, scientists are also closer to recreating prehistoric mammoths by gathering their dna, placing it in a live elephant and viola! dinosaurs.... not that we need anything else sucking down oxygen on this planet. So does that mean someday we can bring back people, like Copernicus, too? And here's my big question, does the mammoth come back where he left off, with all his "collective consciousness" or does he begin a completely new existence? Cuz, if someone rehatched my dna many moons from now and I had to start all over from scratch, I'd be kinda pissed....
daivd
· 1 year ago
it might be, who says that our dna can't have memory in those now 3 genetic codes. Thank you.
doctressjulia
· 1 year ago
So cool! Looking at his face, what he really looked like after hundreds of years...... SO AWESOME!!! pant, pant..... I love science. :)
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crazy about his telescope
and galileo had a name that made his
reputation higher than his hope
did none of those astronomers discover
while they were staring out into the dark
that what a lady looks for in her lover
is charm strangeness and quark
Swirling Creature of the Dawn
Enveloping Warmth, Its Life Moves On
Ethereal Clouds Rising Steaming Gone
Lonely Darkened Creature Losing Days Dawn
Blackness Emptiness Holding It Close
Shelter Seeking Kinship Friendship More Than Most
Leaves Quiet Emptiness Words Unspoken Morose
Lurking Looking Its Mute Silence Welcomes No Host
Swirling Darkened Creature Of The Dawn
Rising Steaming Falling On A Black Black Pond
Briefly Hope Whispers Sparks Fades Then Gone
Still-Born Dreams Flickering Moving On
Scalding Waters Bloodlike Flowing In Its Soul
Dissipating Heat As Life Grows Slowly Cold
Quiet Quiet Time wears Down What Once Was Bold
Rushing Steaming Streaming The Soul Not Yet so Old.
Joe Copyright 2008
"I didn't even know he lost." should be "I didn't even know was he lost."
And how do they know that the hair found is Copernicus'? It's a stretch but even if it matches the skeleton, the hair and skeleton could be that of someone else. ;-)