Current Events > The heliocentric model must have been a tough pill to swallow.

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Suddenly going from Earth being the most important thing in the universe to being a not-even-mentionworthy speck near the sun is pretty intense.

Like, it's not even just that Earth isn't the center, but, that its mass is 0.0003% of the sun's. Jupiter could fall into the sun and the sun wouldn't notice, but also the Earth could fall into Jupiter and Jupiter wouldn't notice.

Like some people living in the Jovian equivalent of Russia would be like what the hell was that and upload their dashcams to Jupetube and notice that their windows broke, but everyone elee would be like "huh wow interesting" but still go to work.

They were so mad they made Socrates kill himself with poison just to prove how pissy they were at him

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Suddenly going from Earth being the most important thing in the universe to being a not-even-mentionworthy speck near the sun is pretty intense.

Like, it's not even just that Earth isn't the center, but, that its mass is 0.0003% of the sun's. Jupiter could fall into the sun and the sun wouldn't notice, but also the Earth could fall into Jupiter and Jupiter wouldn't notice.

Like some people living in the Jovian equivalent of Russia would be like what the hell was that and upload their dashcams to Jupetube and notice that their windows broke, but everyone elee would be like "huh wow interesting" but still go to work.

At least it led to some of the most badass last words ever from Giordano Bruno: "Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam." ("Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it")

There are still people who reject the heliocentric model...and it's not for scientific reasons but because the bible says the earth is the center of the universe, aka Geocentric model. Technically, you can make the earth the "center" of the universe if you believe there is nothing at the center of the universe, because then you can make any point of the universe the center of it.

DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC posted...

At least it led to some of the most badass last words ever from Giordano Bruno: "Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam." ("Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it")

Lol....cum

Prestoff posted...

There are still people who reject the heliocentric model...and it's not for scientific reasons but because the bible says the earth is the center of the universe, aka Geocentric model. Technically, you can make the earth the "center" of the universe if you believe there is nothing at the center of the universe, because then you can make any point of the universe the center of it.

The Bible doesn't say that.

It speaks about the sun through human perspective, in the same way you or I would, but it never says the Earth is the center of the universe.

The death of ego

Prestoff posted...

There are still people who reject the heliocentric model...and it's not for scientific reasons but because the bible says the earth is the center of the universe, aka Geocentric model. Technically, you can make the earth the "center" of the universe if you believe there is nothing at the center of the universe, because then you can make any point of the universe the center of it.

But there is no actual center of the universe. We are at the center of the observable universe, which for all purposes, is the universe to us.

HornyLevel posted...

But there is no actual center of the universe. We are at the center of the observable universe, which for all purposes, is the universe to us.

Yeah but try explaining that to people in the 16th century.

Meanwhile the Mayans played head basketball or the sun wouldn't rise in the morning.