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To: GodGunsGuts
Galactocentric? WTF? Talk about moving the goal posts! LMFAO! Copenicus had NO IDEA there was any galaxy other than the one he lived in.

Take a look at this picture - how many galaxies do you see? How many billions of stars does this represent? In what twisted universe can you possible imagine your "galactocentric" view.


12 posted on 06/12/2009 9:45:24 AM PDT by stormer
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To: stormer

that’s “Copernicus” and “possibly”


15 posted on 06/12/2009 9:46:58 AM PDT by stormer
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To: stormer
Copenicus had NO IDEA there was any galaxy other than the one he lived in.

He has no idea of a "galazy" at all -- at best, he has the notion that stars were like the sun, only a lot further away (which couldn't be confirmed until telescopes got good enough to measure stellar parallax). If so, stars were presumably scattered randomly across space, continuing out to infinity in more or less the same pattern (which gave rise to the problem of "Olbers' Paradox" -- but I digress).

27 posted on 06/12/2009 12:09:54 PM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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