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Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts) Wed Apr 29, 2015, 10:25 AM Apr 2015

For millenia, humans thought the sun moved about the Earth. [View all]

Recently, some people have been speculating that the actual situation is just the opposite.

Really, people--should we throw aside the wisdom of the ages in favor of some Polish agitators' cockamamie notions?

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For millenia, humans thought the sun moved about the Earth. [View all] Jackpine Radical Apr 2015 OP

Step away from the keyboard, sir, and no one will get hurt. Buzz Clik Apr 2015 #1

LOL Good one Jackpine Radical Faux pas Apr 2015 #2

No. That nonsense is of the Devil, Jackpine Radical Apr 2015 #10

He's a tool of the "Earth-around-the-Sun"-lobby. What a sell-out. DetlefK Apr 2015 #3

What are you, some Big Geo shill? NuclearDem Apr 2015 #9

By modern standards we would probably reject Copernicus: Ptolemy predicted things just as well Recursion Apr 2015 #4

Yes, I recall that history fairly well, but Jackpine Radical Apr 2015 #8

Metaphorically speaking, the sun does revolve around the Earth malthaussen Apr 2015 #5

they accepted it pretty fast, actually MisterP Apr 2015 #6

stop having sex with white people snooper2 Apr 2015 #7