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Old July 2nd 18, 05:28 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default Oh no, not again

Chris L Peterson wrote in
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On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 13:00:33 -0700 (PDT), Gerald Kelleher
wrote:

There is no 'belief' requirement for a Sun centered solar system...


Tell that to His Assholliness Urban VIII.


Is that the pope that gave Copernicus permission to dedicate "On the
Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres" (which would have been illegal
without permission) to him?

(Galileo's real problem wasn't that he said the earth revolved around
the sun. His problem was that he was a trolling asshole who
embarrased and ****ed off people with very powerful friends.)

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