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To: WildHighlander57
"A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"

— Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

W.H. That or some variation of it.

1,922 posted on 09/25/2023 6:32:16 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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1,923 posted on 09/25/2023 6:35:07 PM PDT by xone ( )
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
"But it's turtles all the way down!"

Next question would be; "Down to what?"

1,939 posted on 09/25/2023 7:14:56 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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