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(New Scientist) Interesting The stars on the oldest heliocentric model known to man are on backwards...whoops   (newscientist.com) divider line 26
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2011-11-29 02:21:19 PM
Is this surprising?

Didn't ancient astronomers look at the stars reflected in pools of water so they didn't have to look up all night?
 
2011-11-29 02:42:40 PM
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2011-11-29 02:52:07 PM
"But I wouldn't call it negligence", she adds. "I just put the constellations back in the order in which I found them. I don't know anything about astronomy".

zodiac =/= astronomy.
she sounds like a real rocket surgeon.

I'd bang her 'cause she sounds blonde.
 
2011-11-29 04:18:15 PM
Does this prove the contemporary geocentrists correct?
 
2011-11-29 04:23:57 PM
Was it done by the same guy who did the ceiling at grand central terminal?
 
2011-11-29 04:29:47 PM
if you read TFA, you discover that the thing was correctly made originally, but sometime after WWII, presumably in a post-war restoration because it was damaged, somebody messed it up and no one noticed until this latest restoration was complete. so the ancients had it right, but the moderns farked it up.
 
2011-11-29 04:31:28 PM
FTA: According to Hans Hooijmaijers, head of collections at Museum Boerhaave, the Sphaera, which measures 1.5 metres across, may well be the first orrery ever to display the Sun-centred universe. "It's a unique device", he says.

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2011-11-29 04:42:29 PM
Clearly it's from the Mirror Universe.
 
2011-11-29 04:45:27 PM
Snotty should try again.
 
2011-11-29 04:55:34 PM
Ha! Science is wrong, Jesus wins. USA! USA!
 
2011-11-29 05:15:52 PM
So, aside from being wrong, they're wrong. I blame Apsu.
 
2011-11-29 05:21:29 PM
Someone forgot to read the users manual for their solar system
 
2011-11-29 05:28:09 PM
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What's it for? Is that what you want to know? What is this all about? You don't know? Everything in the heavens is here. Moving... as the heavens move. This is how to know when... that's what.
 
2011-11-29 05:39:35 PM
Why didn't someone TELL me the stars were so big?
 
2011-11-29 05:47:52 PM
Arkanaut: Ha! Science is wrong, Jesus wins. USA! USA!

You know that webcomic where a bunch of scientists are talking about really amazing and cool shiat, but there is one asshole saying he hates in religion in every panel?

That's you.
 
2011-11-29 05:52:40 PM
Ben Franklin empathizes.
 
2011-11-29 05:58:14 PM
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2011-11-29 06:45:23 PM
Son of Thunder: [cineplex.media.baselineresearch.com image 320x213]
What's it for? Is that what you want to know? What is this all about? You don't know? Everything in the heavens is here. Moving... as the heavens move. This is how to know when... that's what.


Sweet Jesus I loved that movie as a brat.
 
2011-11-29 07:33:04 PM
somemoron: Arkanaut: Ha! Science is wrong, Jesus wins. USA! USA!

You know that webcomic where a bunch of scientists are talking about really amazing and cool shiat, but there is one asshole saying he hates in religion in every panel?

That's you.


Link?
 
2011-11-29 07:47:27 PM
vudukungfu: "But I wouldn't call it negligence", she adds. "I just put the constellations back in the order in which I found them. I don't know anything about astronomy".

zodiac =/= astronomy.
she sounds like a real rocket surgeon.

I'd bang her 'cause she sounds blonde.


I was thinking she was making a good case for mandatory multi-disciplinary studies myself.
 
2011-11-29 07:57:55 PM
vudukungfu: zodiac =/= astronomy

I work in a planetarium. People's inability to understand this basic concept is the bane of my existence.
 
2011-11-29 08:16:14 PM
Arkanaut: somemoron: Arkanaut: Ha! Science is wrong, Jesus wins. USA! USA!

You know that webcomic where a bunch of scientists are talking about really amazing and cool shiat, but there is one asshole saying he hates in religion in every panel?

That's you.

Link?


Google-fu is weak. I saw it here on Fark some time ago. Can't find it now. Anyway, you're 'that guy'.
 
2011-11-29 08:30:56 PM
While there is a difference between the applications of Astrology and Astronomy, they both agree on the order the Zodiacal named constellations are in the sky.
 
2011-11-29 09:54:44 PM
How many backwards? How can you have more than one backward?
 
2011-11-29 11:52:06 PM
J. Frank Parnell
While there is a difference between the applications of Astrology and Astronomy, they both agree on the order the Zodiacal named constellations are in the sky.

I had a psychobiatch of an ex who was into astronomy. When I pointed out that due to precession, the astrological signs no longer line up with what's actually happening in the sky, she sneered at me for assuming that "the sun is in Aquarius" actually means the sun is in Aquarius.

Debating the point further proved hazardous to my health.
 
2011-11-30 05:13:25 AM
somemoron: Arkanaut: somemoron: Arkanaut: Ha! Science is wrong, Jesus wins. USA! USA!

You know that webcomic where a bunch of scientists are talking about really amazing and cool shiat, but there is one asshole saying he hates in religion in every panel?

That's you.

Link?

Google-fu is weak. I saw it here on Fark some time ago. Can't find it now. Anyway, you're 'that guy'.


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